Cross-border raids from militant Islamists are increasingly threatening the West African state’s stability.

Both sides have reason to end the war but share no common ground.

In temporarily occupied Crimea, since the start of the year, occupying authorities have arrested 57 people, including 18 Crimean Tatars.

Vladimir Putin announced the truce, which will last from Saturday afternoon on 11 April through Easter Sunday.

She called rumours that Epstein introduced her to Donald Trump "mean-spirited attempts to defame my reputation".

The rise in energy prices has hit Asia particularly hard as many nations are heavily reliant on Gulf oil.

Police dismantled a transnational drug trafficking channel from the European Union to Ukraine, operated by a group of five individuals who were earning nearly UAH 10 million monthly.

Operators of the 1st Separate Center of the Unmanned Systems Forces have destroyed a Russian Tor-M1 surface-to-air missile system in temporarily occupied territory of the Donetsk region.

Russian forces attacked Ukrainian defensive positions 134 times since the beginning of the day. The enemy is most active in the Kostiantynivka and Pokrovsk sectors, with increased activity in the Huliaipole sector.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced a temporary halt to hostilities in the war against Ukraine on the occasion of Orthodox Easter.