President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had a “candid exchange of views” on the Ukraine crisis at a virtual summit Monday, but the United States appeared to have made little progress in wooing India away from its neutral stance on Russia’s invasion.

Gunmen have killed dozens of people after ransacking villages in central Nigeria, local sources said, in the latest violence blamed on heavily armed criminal gangs.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and finance minister Rishi Sunak will be fined by police for breaching COVID-19 lockdown rules, the government said on Tuesday.

President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday peace talks with Ukraine had hit a dead end, using his first public comments on the conflict in more than a week to vow that his troops would win and to goad the West for failing to bring Moscow to heel.

A gunman filled a rush-hour subway train with smoke and shot multiple people Tuesday, leaving wounded commuters bleeding on a Brooklyn platform as others ran screaming, authorities said. Police were still searching for the shooter.

OPEC told the European Union on Monday that current and future sanctions on Russia could create one of the worst ever oil supply shocks and it would be impossible to replace those volumes, and signalled it would not pump more.

Escalating global geopolitical tensions arising from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could spill over to Asia through sharper-than-expected increases in energy and other commodity prices, said experts yesterday.

Ukraine said yesterday that tens of thousands of people have likely been killed in Russia’s assault on Mariupol and Russian forces have slowed down evacuations from the besieged southeastern city, where conditions are desperate.

Israeli forces yesterday launched a third day of operations around the flashpoint West Bank city of Jenin following heavy gun battles in recent days and 20 arrests overnight, the army said.

German newspaper Die Welt said yesterday it has hired Marina Ovsyannikova, the Russian journalist who protested against Moscow’s military action in Ukraine during a prime-time news broadcast on state TV.

French President Emmanuel Macron and far-right rival Marine Le Pen yesterday embarked on a final fortnight of bruising campaigning for a French presidential election run-off whose outcome is far more uncertain than their encounter five years ago.

The mayor of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol tells The Associated Press that more than 10,000 civilians have died in the southeastern city since the Russian invasion in February.

American President Joe Biden today held a virtual meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and said the US and India would continue their close consultation on how to manage and stabilise the effects of the Russia-Ukraine war.

To celebrate the signing of a new trade agreement with India, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison posted a photo on Instagram on Saturday (April 9, 2022) of himself preparing khichdi (khichuri), the favourite dish of his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi, Deccan Herald reports.

French leader Emmanuel Macron and his strongest challenger Marine Le Pen qualified on Sunday for a presidential election runoff on April 24, pitting a pro-European economic liberal against a far-right nationalist.

Ukraine said yesterday it was seeking another round of European Union sanctions against Moscow and more military aid from its allies as it braces for a major Russian offensive in the east of the country.

Iran’s foreign minister said yesterday that Washington is “imposing new conditions” in the negotiations to restore the 2015 nuclear agreement.

Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian woman yesterday near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem, the Palestinian health ministry said, the latest in a surge of violence.

French President Emmanuel Macron yesterday faced a tough test seeking re-election in a vote projected to produce a tight run-off with far-right leader Marine Le Pen.

Voters cast ballots across France on Sunday in the first round of a presidential election where far-right candidate Marine Le Pen is posing an unexpected threat to President Emmanuel Macron's re-election hopes.