Ukraine’s ambassador to the Netherlands, Andriy Kostin, said that Russia had carried out the largest-scale abduction of children in Europe since World War II.

The judge has ordered control of the the troops, which were deployed in June, to be returned to California’s governor.

On December 10, several explosions were heard in the temporarily occupied Crimea near the Hvardiyske airfield. Maritime passenger transport has been suspended in Sevastopol.

The Kyiv Court of Appeal has upheld the preventive measure of 24-hour house arrest for former Odessa mayor Gennadiy Trukhanov in a case concerning official negligence.

Businessman Ihor Kolomoisky has claimed that an attempted assassination of Tymur Mindich, a suspect in a National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) case, was carried out in Israel but failed.

Shell Plc is planning to dissolve a partnership with Russia’s Rosneft PJSC through which the two oil giants jointly own a stake in a pipeline from Kazakhstan.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that this week could bring news that advances efforts to end the bloodshed. He noted that a call with U.S. officials on a document detailing Ukraine’s reconstruction process is scheduled for today, while a meeting of the Coalition of the Willing is planned for tomorrow.

The friends were warned their clothing was "in conflict with Afghan and Islamic values", a Taliban spokesman told the BBC.

The two four-storey buildings that came down in Fez contained eight families, state media report.

The F/A-18 Super Hornets appear on flight tracking sites near Maracaibo, Venezuela’s second-largest city.