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LVIV, Ukraine — At least five people were wounded Saturday in two barrages of strikes that damaged infrastructure including a fuel storage facility in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, a rare attack there.

VATICAN CITY, Holy See — Pope Francis on Sunday condemned the “cruel and senseless” war in Ukraine, where “barbarous” acts were “destroying the future”.

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — The Saudi-led coalition carried out air strikes in Yemen early on Sunday after the country’s Huthi rebels called a three-day truce and offered a permanent ceasefire, Saudi media said.

HONG KONG, China — Hong Kong announced Sunday it will halve the period for which it suspends international flights that bring in passengers infected with Covid-19, as the aviation industry increasingly voices alarm over the continued difficulty of operating in the city.

NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar — Myanmar’s junta will “annihilate” coup opponents, army chief Min Aung Hlaing said Sunday as the military staged a show of force on the anniversary of its bloodiest crackdown so far on democracy protests.

UNITED NATIONS, United States — UN chief Antonio Guterres on Saturday condemned an exchange of attacks between Yemen’s Huthi rebels and the Saudi-led coalition, calling for “restraint” on all sides in the seven-year conflict.

PRAGUE, Czech Republic — Thousands of largely Russian protesters rallied against President Vladimir Putin in central Prague on Saturday, calling on him to stop the war in Ukraine.

OSLO, Norway — Nearly half of Ukrainians aged 18-55 are ready to fight to defend their country against Russia, a poll conducted by a Norwegian research centre suggested on Saturday.

DOHA, Qatar — The Taliban’s ban on girls’ education won’t last forever, Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai said on Saturday, emphasising that Afghan women now know what it is to be “empowered”.

DOHA, Qatar — The Ukraine conflict has unleashed a “Third World War” over misinformation, an official from the beleaguered country said Saturday, while experts warned of the difficulty in convincing Russians what their army is doing.

KYIV, Ukraine — Russian forces took control of a town where staff working at the Chernobyl nuclear site live and briefly detained the mayor, sparking protests, Ukrainian officials said Saturday.

WARSAW, Poland – US President Joe Biden on Saturday castigated Vladimir Putin over the month-old war in Ukraine, bluntly calling the Russian leader “a butcher” who “cannot remain in power”.

DOHA, Qatar — Russia’s “bragging” about its nuclear weapons is fuelling a dangerous arms race, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky told the Doha Forum on Saturday.

SANAA, Yemen — Yemen’s Huthi rebels announced a three-day truce with the Saudi-led coalition and dangled the prospect of a “permanent” ceasefire on Saturday, the seventh anniversary of a brutal conflict that has left millions on the brink of famine.

BEIJING, China — All 132 people aboard the plane that crashed into a mountainside in southern China this week have been confirmed dead, the country’s civil aviation authority said Saturday.

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia — A Yemeni rebel attack on a Saudi oil plant set off a huge fire near Jeddah’s Formula One circuit during televised practice sessions on Friday, part of a wave of assaults on Aramco facilities.

SHANGHAI, China — Shanghai on Saturday recorded a sharp rise in Covid-19 cases, but a member of the city’s pandemic task force said officials were determined to avoid a full lockdown over the damage it would do to the economy.

KABUL, Afghanistan — About two dozen girls and women chanting “open the schools” protested in the Afghan capital Saturday against the Taliban’s ecision to shut their secondary schools just hours after re-opening them this week.