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Despite the West's all-out military support for Ukraine, the latter has acknowledged that its forces are not advancing as fast as it is desired by the country against Russia.

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Russian President Vladimir remained noncommittal on extending a UN-backed grain deal, claiming in a call with his South African counterpart that Moscow's demands have not been met.

In the first two weeks of Ukraine's offensive up to 20% of the weapons Kiev sent to the battlefield were destroyed or damaged, including tanks and armored vehicles that Ukrainians planned to use in the advance on Russian positions, a American daily nespaper reported on Saturday, citing US and European officials.

The Ukrainian authorities should comply with their international legal obligations and immediately release the vicegerent of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, Metropolitan Bishop Pavel, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Saturday.

Due to the actions of the Vostok group of forces in the Donetsk and Zaporozhye direction, Ukraine lost up to 210 soldiers.

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A proposed expansion of the American Institute in Taiwan's (AIT) office compound in Taipei to land adjacent to the compound is meant to reinforce America's "rock-solid commitment to Taiwan," it said Wednesday.

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The son of jailed Belarusian presidential hopeful Viktar Babaryka has been convicted and sentenced to eight years in prison on charges that he and other activists rejected as trumped up.

The defense committee of the German parliament approved the purchase of 60 CH-47F Chinook heavy military transport helicopters from US company Boeing, a German daily reported on Wednesday.

Four million people in northwest Syria - most of them women and children - rely on humanitarian aid to survive following years of conflict, economic shocks, disease outbreaks, and spiraling poverty compounded by the devastating earthquakes.

Israel's military said Wednesday it carried out airstrikes in the Gaza Strip in response to rocket fire, targeting a weapons production site used by suspected Hama

The deputy executive director and chief operating officer for the U.N. World Food Program, Carl Skau, says that Afghanistan is facing a dire humanitarian situation with nine out of 10 Afghan families lacking adequate food and "children and pregnant women are the hardest hit."

The UN's top humanitarian officials on Wednesday voiced shock and condemnation over increasing reports of gender-based violence in Sudan as the military power struggle there continues.

Senior United Nations officials today voiced shock and condemnation at increasing reports of gender-based violence in Sudan - including conflict-related sexual violence against internally displaced and refugee women and girls - since fighting erupted in the country more than 11 weeks ago.