Kiev authorities have to hold dialogue with representatives from Donbas to restore peace in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin said during a briefing following talks with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in Moscow on Friday. ....

India's crackdown on Chinese firms and mobile apps is "becoming increasingly unhinged" and the action is nothing but "politically-motivated crackdowns on businesses from China", state-run Chinese paper Global Times has said. ....

US President Joe Biden said on Thursday that he believes Russia will invade Ukraine in the next several days, noting that Russia has added more troops to the border, The Hill reported. ....

Two-thirds, or 66 per cent, of Canadians support Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for invoking the Emergencies Act to give the federal government extra powers to handle the truckers' protests across the country, according to a new survey. ....

Pakistan journalist Mohsin Baig, who was arrested following a raid at his residence, has claimed that he was tortured by Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) officials on the orders of Prime Minister Imran Khan while in police detention, Friday Times reported. ....

More than a dozen of popular surf beaches in Sydney were closed on Thursday, following the first fatal shark attack in the Australian city's waters in almost 60 years. ....

Not just the air but also the river flowing through Lahore has been found to be the world's most polluted, with active pharmaceutical ingredients posing a 'threat to environment and human health', Dawn reported. ....

After the Ministry of External Affairs put out an advisory for the Indians in Ukraine to leave country, many students are unwilling to return due to skyrocketing flight ticket prices. ....

Ukraine's Ministry of Defence has suffered a major cyber attack that prevented users from accessing its website, amid heightened tensions with Russia. ....

As Russia announced that it was withdrawing some troops from the Ukrainian border, the Foreign Ministry in Moscow said Western countries have been "destroyed without a single shot being fired", the BBC reported. ....