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The visiting head of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog has warned in Tehran of outstanding issues as time runs out to revive a 2015 nuclear deal crippled by a U.S. pullout and Iran's retreat from compliance, with both sides warning it will take months to clear the obstacles.

Russia's Defense Ministry has ordered at least a partial cease-fire in the besieged Ukrainian cities of Mariupol and Volnovakha to allow humanitarian corridors for civilians to leave.

Despite heavy shelling of the predominantly Russian-speaking city of Kharkiv, it is still under Ukrainian control. Though many people have fled the city, those who have stayed describe increasingly grim conditions that are difficult to escape.

A spokesman for Recep Tayyip Erdogan says the Turkish president will speak to Russian President Vladimir Putin on March 6 and that Ankara is ready to do what it can to stop the war in Ukraine.

Ukrainian emergency services say they have put out a fire that was burning out of control overnight at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant in southeastern Ukraine, after local officials say Russian forces opened fire on the facility overnight as a Russian column approached.

Memorial International, Russia's most venerated human rights group, says police have raided one of its offices in Moscow.

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has reversed its decision to allow Russian and Belarusian Paralympic teams to compete under a neutral flag in the upcoming Paralympics and now says they will be banned.

A Russian-friendly Ukrainian lawmaker has been detained by Ukrainian soldiers after they said he was taking pictures of a military checkpoint in Kyiv, where Ukrainian forces have been fighting Russian invasion since last week.

Many Russians are being fed a daily media diet of Kremlin propaganda that hides the terrible destruction and human cost of their country's invasion of Ukraine. So how did ordinary Russians in Perm and Vladivostok react when Current Time reporters showed them some images?

Russia is set to take an even tougher crackdown on "unofficial" reporting and "disinformation" regarding its invasion of ...