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EU leaders wrapped up an emergency summit early on Friday with agreement to punish Moscow for sending troops to Ukraine by imposing "severe" sanctions targeting its financial, energy and transport sectors.

Russia has begun a military operation in Ukraine as United Nations Security Council members met in New York to try and defuse weeks of mounting tensions.

The United Nations regretted Russia's order to deploy troops into eastern Ukraine on a reported 'peacekeeping mission', the body's political affairs chief told an emergency Security Council meeting on Monday, as Putin accused Kyiv of persecuting Russian speakers and of preparing a "blitzkrieg" against the breakaway regions of Donetsk and Lugansk in Ukraine's east.

Two campus police officers were shot and killed at a college in the US state of Virginia Tuesday, while one student was killed and another wounded in a shooting at a school in Minnesota the same day.

A Belgian court sentenced a Vietnamese man to 15 years in prison on Wednesday after convicting him of being the ringleader in the trafficking of 39 migrants found dead in a lorry.

The Vietnam News Agency (VNA) has selected the top 10 international events that shaped the world in 2021.

At least 49 migrants were killed Thursday in Mexico after the truck they were hiding in hit a retaining wall and overturned in the southern state of Chiapas, a major transit point for those trying to reach the United States.

Chinese and Russian internet media outlets should promote multilateralism, combat false information, safeguard equity and justice in cyberspace, and contribute more to the friendly ties between the two countries, a forum was told on Monday.

Nearly 200 nations came together Saturday on a global deal to combat climate change after two weeks of painful negotiation, but fell short of what science says is needed to contain dangerous temperature rises.

There is a popular saying in modern Polish: “to defend something like independence.” It means taking a clear and determined stance for some idea or value. Where does the expression come from?

It is clear for the Colombian government that peace building needs to be inclusive and rely on the territories. For this reason, important advances have been made in the restitution of land to those who were dispossessed or who were displaced by actors of the country’s armed conflict.

Strong political leadership and earnest implementation of policies by a committed bureaucracy have been two key factors in India's relative success in containing the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, a senior health official said.

Getting to school as a boy growing up in Singapore in the 1970s could be soggy affair at times. 

A record number of newsrooms across the world have joined this year’s World News Day, a global day of action to promote the importance of fact-based journalism.