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Japanese rescuers said Sunday they had found four people from a sightseeing boat that went missing a day earlier with 26 on board after warning it was sinking in frigid northern waters.

After two years of human devastation, the world is learning to live with COVID-19 while trying to balance the protection of public health and livelihoods.

All 132 people on board China Eastern Airlines' plane that crashed Monday in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region were dead, an official announced Saturday

Russia declared a partial ceasefire on Saturday to allow humanitarian corridors out of the Ukrainian cities of Mariupol and Volnovakha, Russia's defence ministry said.

The largest nuclear power plant in Europe is on fire following a Russian attack, Ukraine's foreign minister said on Friday, as he called for a security zone and firefighters to be allowed to tackle the incident.

Negotiators from Ukraine and Russia will return to their capital cities for consultations and have plans for fresh talks, both sides announced on Monday after meeting for their first talks since the outbreak of war last week.

Talks between the Russian and Ukrainian delegations will begin in the morning on Monday, a source told TASS.

Moscow ordered its troops to advance in Ukraine "from all directions" while the West responded late on Saturday with sanctions that sought to cripple Russia's banking sector.

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.