China's lockdown in Shanghai is loosening after an outbreak of COVID killed 580 people. Millions of residents were confined to their homes for weeks, reporting shortages of food and medicine.
The Ukrainian soldiers who surrendered Mariupol's Azovstal steel plant, the last bastion of resistance to Russia, have become prisoners of war in Russian-controlled areas, the International Committee of the Red Cross reported, after registering hundreds of POWs.
Russia's war in Ukraine has taken the lives of more than 3,700 Ukrainians and turned more than six million others into refugees. There have been more than 2,000 people killed in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions alone.
The cousin of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov was deployed to Mariupol as a part of Russia’s push to end the months-long resistance holed up in the Azovstal steel plant, the U.K.’s defense ministry said Wednesday.
North Korea announced hundreds of thousands of new cases of fever on Wednesday. The country said that a million residents have already recovered from what outside experts believe are cases of COVID-19.
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov admitted Tuesday that Russia is facing “difficulties” in its deadly campaign in Ukraine and claimed the war is actually a fight against NATO.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday said Sweden and Finland should not expect its support for NATO membership until European nations kowtow to its demands.
The surrendered Ukrainian fighters holed up in the Azovstal Steel Plant for weeks will have their “fate” decided by a Russian court, a Donetsk separatist leader said Wednesday.