Authorized delegations from South Korea and Russia recently held closed-door talks in Moscow on North Korea’s nuclear program and other pressing regional security issues.

The move comes days after President Donald Trump said that he was ordering a blockade of sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela.

Russian occupiers have begun selling tickets for performances at the Mariupol Drama Theater, the site of the mass killing of civilians.

The Bondi shooting, and a deadly stabbing attack just last year, have left scores physically scarred and traumatised.

The BBC goes to a rebel-held part of Myanmar, ahead of a government-mandated election starting this month.

In Kherson, two people were injured as a result of a Russian drone strike.

There were 200 combat engagements on the front line, more than 70 of them on the Pokrovsk and Kostiantynivka directions.

At a meeting in the U.S.–Ukraine format, the parties worked through a 20-point plan; aligned positions on a multilateral framework agreement on security guarantees and on a bilateral security guarantees agreement from the United States; and continued work on an economic development plan.

The main goal of security guarantees for Ukraine is to ensure that it never again becomes a victim of an attack.

Russian troops suffered losses during an attempted assault in the area of Sotnytskyi Kozachok in the Kharkiv region and were forced to retreat.