A new drone attack on Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia power plant has raised the risk of a "major nuclear accident", the UN's atomic watchdog has warned. Israel ‘pulls out troops’ from southern Gaza as attacks enter seventh month
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Ukraine and Russia have contradicted each other over whether there had been proper notification to secure the airspace around an area where a military transport plane Moscow says was carrying 65 Ukrainian POWs crashed, killing them and nine others on board. Israel and Qatar are in a major diplomatic spat over Gaza.
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Israel has agreed to begin four-hour “pauses” in military operations in northern Gaza to allow humanitarian aid to get in and innocent civilians to safely get out. Meanwhile some 80,000 civilians were said to have fled from the northern to the southern parts of Gaza. A powerful Russian missile strikes a Liberian-flagged bulk carrier off Odesa
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In an almost unprecedented move, Israel moves to bar the UN’s top humanitarian official from the country, and threatens to deny visas to other UN staff as well. Gridlock in Washngton could come to an end soon with the election of a new House speaker, who also happens to be a Trump supporter.
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Hundreds of people are believed to be dead following a strike on a hospital in Gaza. Palestinian officials blamed ongoing Israeli airstrikesfor the lethal incident, while a spokesperson for Israel said a Palestinian Islamic Jihad group is responsible for a “failed rocket launch” that hit the hospital.
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Israel's PM Benjamin Netanyahu has denied reports of a ceasefire to allow "foreigners out" of south Gaza and "humanitarian aid in.” UN officials say the Gaza Strip is being “strangled” by Israel’s siege. The governing Law and Justice Party wins in exit polls in Poland but could lose power if it’s unable to find a coalition partner in parliament
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The Israeli military will attack Gaza by land, air and sea, it says in a statement ahead of an expected ground offensive - but gives no timings or specifics. The UN's aid agency told the BBC that Gaza is "being pushed into an abyss"
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In raids into the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces reportedly recovered bodies of kidnapped Israelis seized by Hamas last weekend. Israel later denied the report. Scores of Gazans on the move amidst an Israeli order. Australian voters defeat a move to grant Aboriginals more rights
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The UN says it has been told by Israel that everyone in north Gaza must relocate to the south of the Strip in the next 24 hours. It means the entire population of Gaza City and its surroundings - about 1.1 million people - having to flee their homes, the UN says
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Sources in the Biden administration estimate that Israel will launch a ground attack on the Gaza Strip within the next two days. At least 16 civilians have been wounded in Russian attacks in the south and east of Ukraine.
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Russian missiles and artillery pounded cities across Ukraine early Thursday, sparking fires, killing at least three people and trapping others under the rubble of destroyed buildings, authorities said, as Poland said it would stop providing weapons to its ally amid a trade dispute.
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Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin confirmed dead after genetic analysis of bodies found in plane crash, Russian officials say. The Zimbabwean leader knows as ‘the crocodile’ is re-elected
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Overnight strikes on Odesa and Mykolaiv and Odesa caused injuries and significant damage - including to an administrative building in Odesa. Grain and corn prices rise due to a Russian blockade of the Black Sea
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy traveled Wednesday to neighboring Poland to meet with leaders there as well as members of the public and Ukrainian refugees who fled after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
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Today marks the one-year anniversary of the liberation of Bucha, the Ukrainian town that has become synonymous with unspeakable Russian war crimes. Bucha and Bucha district saw 33 days of occupation. More than 1,400 deaths, including 37 children. More than 175 people were found in mass graves and torture chambers.
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Ukrainian fighters repulsed a fresh series of Russian assaults in Bakhmut and the surroundings of the city in the eastern region of Donetsk, Kyiv's military said early on March 17, while Russian shelling of settlements caused deaths among Ukrainian civilians.
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Russian forces are continuing to press their offensive in the area around Ukraine’s Donetsk region city of Bakhmut, the Ukrainian military reported on March 11. Media in Finland have reported that the Prime Minister is prepared to discuss providing U.S.-made fighter jets to Ukraine.
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Ukraine has been told to expect Russian missile attacks to coincide with the anniversary of the invasion, its intelligence service says. The United Nations is expected to approve a resolution that condemns Russia's invasion of Ukraine and calls for peace as soon as possible
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