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Russia’s Gazprom has suspended gas deliveries to Poland and Bulgaria, citing the two countries’ refusal to pay in Russian roubles, prompting accusations of “blackmail” and emergency talks at the European Union headquarters in Brussels.

The Chinese authorities are not seeking World War III and are in favor of resolving the conflict in Ukraine through diplomacy, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Wang Wenbin said on Tuesday.

The European Commission on Monday called for Eurojust's mandate to be strengthened to facilitate investigations into possible war crimes in Ukraine.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin were set to visit Kyiv on Sunday to discuss Ukraine's call for more powerful weapons, two months after Russia's invasion began.

Ukrainian capital's residents marked Orthodox Easter on Sunday with prayers for those fighting on the front lines and others trapped beyond them in places like Mariupol.

A 21-year-old Palestinian man who suffered a serious head injury at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Friday has fallen into a coma and is in critical condition, his family says.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh voiced Iran's concern over the repetition of numerous explosions in Afghanistan.

A bomb blast that targeted worshipers in a mosque in the northern Kunduz province has killed 33 and wounded 43 more so far.

Russian President Putin claims victory in the battle for Mariupol despite an estimated 2,000 Ukrainian fighters still holed up at a giant steel mill, as fighting continues on the 58th day of the conflict.

The third Friday prayers of Ramadan at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem were sandwiched by Israeli police attacks on Palestinians attending prayers, but that did not stop some 150,000 Palestinians traveling to the mosque to worship, according to the Jerusalem Islamic Waqf.