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The mayor of the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol says more than 1,000 people were sheltering in a theater that was hit by a Russian air strike on March 16, leaving many civilians trapped and an unknown number of casualties.

Two British-Iranians who were held in Iran for years have returned home to their families after Britain settled a long-standing debt owed to Iran.

Since Russia invaded Ukraine, Moscow has blocked moves at the UN Security Council to condemn its action, while using the global body to spread Kremlin disinformation. Experts say the UN is facing its greatest challenge ever and predict a return to the darkest days of the Cold War.

The Kremlin has rejected an order by the United Nations' highest court to cease its attack on Ukraine, saying both sides had to agree to end the hostilities for the ruling to be implemented.

Kazakh tycoon Qairat Boranbaev, whose daughter was the wife of a late grandson of former President Nursultan Nazarbaev, has been placed in pretrial detention on embezzlement charges. 

With Moscow's attack on Ukraine now in its fourth week, authorities in Russia are pulling out all the stops to drum up enthusiasm for the campaign. And the Latin letter Z has become a ubiquitous -- and to some, deeply sinister -- symbol of support for the war and for President Vladimir Putin.

The IRGC last year called for some oil officials to be hit with travel bans for fear that they would expose Tehran’s sanctions-evading tactics, a leaked document has revealed.  

A virus unknown until a little more than a decade ago is circulating among lone star ticks in Georgia, Emory University scientists say.

As the weather gets warmer and more Pennsylvanians venture outside, state officials are encouraging them to protect themselves against potentially serious tick-borne diseases.

Belarus is supplying electricity to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, Belarusian authorities have said, after the facility, which is under the control of Russian forces, lost power.