Bangladesh abstained from voting in the UN General Assembly that adopted a resolution calling for Russia to be held accountable for violating international law by invading Ukraine.

Two residential buildings in the Ukraine capital were hit by missiles on Tuesday, the mayor of Kyiv said, following reports that air raid sirens were sounding in all regions of the Ukraine.

Heavy rain triggered flash floods that cut off some inland towns in Australia's southeast on Monday, with fresh evacuation warnings issued for thousands of rural residents.

Now is the time to end Russia's “destructive” war and “save thousands of lives”, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told the G20 summit in Bali via video address on Tuesday.

A baby born somewhere on Tuesday will be the world's eight billionth person, according to a projection by the United Nations.

Leaders of the Group of 20 (G20) nations opened talks on Tuesday on the island of Bali, with a plea by host Indonesia for unity and concrete action to mend the global economy despite deep rifts over the war in Ukraine.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Tuesday he has tested positive for Covid-19 at the Group of 20 meetings in Bali, just days after hosting many world leaders, including President Joe Biden, for a summit in Phnom Penh.

A suspect in a shooting at the University of Virginia that left three members of the University of Virginia football team dead was in custody on Monday, hours after he allegedly opened fire on a bus full of students returning from a field trip.

The last time Russian President Vladimir Putin found himself isolated at a G20 summit was in 2014, soon after he seized Crimea -- and he was so shunned that he left early.

Turkey yesterday accused a Syrian woman of planting a bomb that killed six people in Istanbul, blaming the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) of carrying out the attack.

The world’s three largest rainforest nations Brazil, Democratic Republic of Congo and Indonesia yesterday formally launched a partnership to cooperate on forest preservation after a decade of on-off talks on a trilateral alliance.

A scheme to give speedy financial support to communities battered by climate disasters was launched yesterday by a group of rich and developing nations at the UN COP27 summit in Egypt.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres yesterday heaped pressure on G20 nations to work together to slow global warming, saying their action, or inaction, would dictate the fate of the planet.

Iran said yesterday it had provided evidence to countries whose nationals it claims participated in unrest that has rocked the country in recent weeks.

Ukraine faces difficult months ahead and Russia’s military capability should not be underestimated, Nato secretary general Jens Stoltenberg said yesterday, as President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the newly recaptured southern city of Kherson.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is in good health after two health checks at a hospital in Bali, an Indonesian health ministry official said Monday, as Moscow denied the top diplomat had been hospitalised.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping and US President Joe Biden met on Monday for long-awaited talks that come as relations between their countries are at their lowest in decades, marred by disagreements over a host of issues from Taiwan to trade.

Tribal fighting in Sudan's restive Darfur region has left at least 24 people dead and triggered a localised state of emergency, state media said Monday.

A shooting on the campus of the University of Virginia late Sunday left three people dead and two wounded, university police said in a tweet, adding that the suspect was still at large and "armed and dangerous".

Chinese leader Xi Jinping will arrive on the Indonesian island of Bali on Monday for a long-awaited meeting with US President Joe Biden, ahead of a Group of 20 (G20) summit set to be fraught with tension over Russia's invasion of Ukraine.