The latest developments in the Ukraine crisis.
Staff Writers
Kyiv officials plead for heavy Western weapons to stop the onslaught of Russian troops into eastern Ukraine's industrial Donbas region.
Yuras Karmanau and Elena Becatoros
In a move Kyiv describes as looting, Russia plans to ship steel from the captured Ukrainian Azovstal steelworks to its own port city.
China is strengthening its ties with Pacific nations and has signed a deal with Samoa.
Samuel McKeith
The prime minister of Fiji praised Australia's new foreign minister following her first visit and appeared to take a swipe at comments made by Scott Morrison.
Phoebe Loomes
An 11-year-old caught up in the Texas school massacre has told how she covered herself with a friend’s blood and pretended to be dead while waiting for help.
Kiribati has been the next stop on the Pacific tour of China's foreign minister Wang Yi, with talks on fisheries, education and health.
Kirsty Needham
The popular band’s keyboardist Andy Fletcher founded the group in England’s south-east in 1980 and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame two years ago.
Benedict Smith
The Oscar-winning actor has been charged with a number of sex offences by Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service.
Kylie MacLellan
Home Affairs Minister Jim Chalmers has approved the exit from immigration detention of the Murugappan family, allowing them to return to Biloela in Queensland.
Maeve Bannister and Paul Osborne
US President Joe Biden will hold a bilateral meeting with Jacinda Ardern next week, the first visit by a New Zealand PM to the White House in eight years.
Ben McKay
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has followed in the footsteps of some of history's great leaders to give a Commencement Address at Harvard University.
Concerns over Beijing's growing presence in the south Pacific are heightening as China's foreign minister embarks on a tour of the region.
Russian troops last night reached the limits of the eastern Ukrainian city of Severodonetsk – with fears relentless attacks will turn it into ‘the new Mariupol’ and ‘erase it from the face of the earth’.
Andy Jehring
Pressure is mounting on Joe Biden amid growing calls to crack down on US gun laws in the wake of the latest mass school shooting. But is he powerful enough to go up against the unrelenting lobby?
Deputy chief reporter
Ahead of four days of celebrations to mark her 70 years on the throne, Queen Elizabeth is to be honoured in Britain's parliament, led by PM Boris Johnson.
A teenage gunman posted his plans online minutes before a deadly rampage at a local school, where 19 children and two of their teachers were shot dead.
Brad Brooks
Amber Heard's claims of abuse by her ex-husband Johnny Depp are ‘unimaginably brutal, cruel and false’ the Pirates of the Caribbean actor has told a US court.
Lisa Richwine
There has been a long history of gun violence in US schools: It did not all begin with Columbine.
James Salmon
A ‘humbled’ Boris Johnson says he takes full responsibility after a damning official report detailed a series of illegal alcohol-fuelled parties at the British prime minister’s Downing Street office during COVID-19 lockdowns.
Elizabeth Piper and Muvija M
Premier Mark McGowan hopes the latest fatal school shooting in the US will be a catalyst for firearms reform but said he feared nothing would change in a country ‘wracked’ by its ‘love affair with guns’.
Josh Zimmerman
Anthony Albanese has wrapped up his whirlwind trip to Japan after making his debut on the world stage as Australia’s newest Prime Minister.
Kimberley Caines
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is casting an eye back towards the Pacific as she continues a trip in the US to promote New Zealand's post-pandemic reopening.
A shooting at a Texas primary school that has left 15 dead is the latest in a string of similar incidents since the world was shocked by Columbine in 1999.
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