Russia pounded Kyiv and surrounding areas with hundreds of drones and missiles on Sunday in ​one of the heaviest bombardments of the city since the start of the four-year war, firing an Oreshnik hypersonic missile near the capital.

Australian activists detained by Israel while on a flotilla attempting to deliver aid to Gaza have returned home, ​with organisers alleging abuse, sexual assault, and beatings, that left some detainees ‌in hospital.

Rescuers pulled two people from the rubble of a collapsed building under ‌construction in the Philippines, bringing the death toll to three, officials said on Monday, as crews continued search and rescue operations after overnight scans detected signs of life beneath the debris.

U.S. President Donald Trump may have won just about every battle against Iran, but three months after attacking the Islamic Republic he now faces a bigger question: Is he losing the war?

China sent three astronauts to its space station on Sunday, one of whom will stay for a ​year, a record length for the country, enabling the study of long-duration human physiology in space as Beijing works towards its ambition of a crewed moon ‌landing by 2030.

Forensic experts on Sunday sifted through the ruins of a dormitory largely destroyed in what Russian authorities ​say was a Ukrainian drone attack in Ukraine’s Luhansk region, seized and placed ‌under Russian control in the four-year-old war.

Oil ‌prices hit two-week lows on Monday on optimism that the U.S. and Iran were moving closer towards a peace deal even though they remained ​at odds over key issues, including blockades on the ​Strait of Hormuz that continued to restrict oil supply ⁠from the Middle East.

New Zealand will tighten English language rules for mid-skilled work visa applicants while expanding ​philanthropy options for investor migrants, Immigration Minister ‌Erica Stanford said on Monday.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday he had told his representatives not to rush into any deal ​with Iran, as his administration played down hopes of an imminent breakthrough in the three-month-old war that had been raised a day earlier.

Ireland’s governing centre-right Fine Gael and the Social Democrats, one of the country’s smaller centre-left parties, won two by-elections on Sunday, while the ​reputed head of a well-known crime family missed out on election again.

China will send an astronaut to its space station on Sunday for a year, a record length for the country, ​enabling the study of long-duration human physiology in space as Beijing works towards its ambition of a crewed moon landing by 2030.

At least 86 children have died from confirmed measles infections in Bangladesh this ​year, and another 426 with symptoms consistent ‌with the disease, health officials said on Saturday, as the country battles one of its worst outbreaks in decades.