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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.

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.