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Daniil Medvedev speaks during a press conference in Geneva, May 15, 2022.
Tennis

Medvedev ready to play Wimbledon if ban reversed

Amal Clooney (centre) attends an informal gathering of UN Security Council members, on April 27, 2022, in New York.
World

At UN, Amal Clooney pushes for Ukraine war crimes justice

Novak Djokovic said he disagreed with war, but said banning athletes was unfair.
Tennis

Djokovic criticises Wimbledon ban on Russians, Belarusians

Shaun Pinner (left) and Aiden Aslin in Syria a few years back. It was unclear how freely the two men were able to talk.
World

2 captured Britons appear on TV, ask to be swopped

Aid workers say the elderly are a particularly vulnerable segment of the population in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
World

'This is my third war': Ukraine's forgotten victims

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson delivers a speech on immigration at Lydd Airport in Britain on April 14, 2022.
World

Russia bans entry to British PM Boris Johnson

It took several men to hold back distraught mother Lyudmyla, who wanted to see her son.
World

Ukrainian mum weeps by roadside after finding son's corpse

People waiting to board a train at Kramatorsk's central station, in Ukraine's Donetsk region, on April 5, 2022.
World

Rocket attack on train station in eastern Ukraine kills 20

Elena (not her real name) said she had not spoken to any doctor or therapist about the ordeal, or her husband.
World

'I don't want to live': Woman raped by Russian soldiers

    Burnt-out remnants of Russian tanks and armored vehicles outside Dmytrivka, west of Kyiv, Ukraine, on April 2, 2022.
    World

    Village leader, family found in shallow grave outside Kyiv

    The popular 95-octane is $2.99 at SPC, $3 at Caltex, Esso and Sinopec, and $3.02 at Shell.
    Singapore

    Lower-octane petrol prices dip below $3 a litre

    The graves of local citizens, who died during Russian invasion, in the city of Kyiv, Ukraine, on April 2, 2022.
    World

    Ukraine says 410 bodies found near Kyiv

    Ukrainian refugee Alexandra Zhuravel, 38, holds her daughter Alevtina Bravorichenko-Crane, 8, in their bedroom at the Benedictine Sisters Monastery, which has welcomed refugees amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in Jaroslaw, Poland, March 22, 2022.
    World

    Play, therapy pool ease trauma for Ukrainian girl in Poland

    Ukrainian celebrity chef Ievgen Klopotenko, who came from Kyiv to Lviv when Russia’s attack on Ukraine started, opened a restaurant where he offers free meals for refugees.
    World

    Ukrainian celebrity chef serves up free meals for refugees

    A view of a residential building damaged during an air strike in Chernihiv, Ukraine, on March 13, 2022.
    World

    90-year-old and her daughter flee Ukrainian city just in time

    Freelance photojournalist Mathias Heng arrived in Kyiv on March 1, 2022.
    World

    Singapore-born photojournalist still in Ukraine

    Mr Putin also compared the West's cancellation of Russian cultural events to actions taken by Nazi Germany.
    World

    J.K. Rowling hits back after Putin's comparison

    US president Joe Biden arrives at Chopin Airport in Warsaw, on March 25, 2022.
    World

    Biden compares Russian invasion to Tiananmen Square

    A woman watches a recorded feed of the Russian Channel One March 14 news broadcast during which Ms Marina Ovsyannikova, who worked as an editor, held up the No War poster with this message in Russian: "Stop the war. Don't believe the propaganda. You are being lied to here".
    World

    Russian website briefly reports 10k killed

    Municipal workers and volunteers remove debris of a damaged residential building in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on March 21, 2022.
    World

    Ordinary Ukrainians do their bit to support the war effort

    This was done to support the United Nations children's agency Unicef's work in Ukraine.
    World

    David Beckham hands over Instagram account to Kharkiv doctor

    Rescuers work at the site of a shopping mall damaged by an airstrike in Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 21, 2022.
    World

    At least six dead in overnight bombing of Kyiv mall