A resident of a Wellington hostel where a fatal fire occurred in the early hours of Tuesday morning said the fire alarms often went off, but not when they were most needed.

Many Rohingya Muslims were killed in Western Myanmar when Cyclone Mocha struck at the weekend, residents, a relief group in the area and a local media report said this morning.

Russia launched an exceptionally intense air attack on Kyiv in the early hours, using drones, cruise and probably ballistic missiles, city officials said, as the Ukrainian capital suffered its eighth air raid this month.

Russian officials on Monday denounced comments by French President Emmanuel Macron that Moscow was becoming subservient to China, saying Western countries must get used to a world underpinned by the Kremlin’s close ties with Beijing.

Ukrainian anti-graft authorities said they were investigating large-scale corruption in the country’s Supreme Court system and shared a photograph of piles of dollars neatly lined up on a sofa.

U.S. officials on Monday said there will be “tougher consequences” for migrants illegally crossing the southern border as U.S. President Joe Biden transitions away from COVID-19 restrictions known as Title 42 that allowed agents to quickly expel many migrants to Mexico over the past three years.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited Alberta on Monday as raging wildfires prompted mass evacuations and reduced energy production in Canada’s main oil-producing province, where meteorologists expect virtually no rain for 10 days or so.

Ukraine on Monday hailed its first substantial battlefield advances in six months as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy won pledges for new long-range drones in Britain to add to a haul of Western arms for a counteroffensive against Russian invaders.

Ukraine’s state security agency has served businessman Dmytro Firtash and top managers of companies he controls with “notices of suspicion” of embezzlement, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said in a statement on Monday.

Go Airlines in a filing on Monday backed emergency arbitration and said Pratt & Whitney’s argument that arbitration awards are unenforceable in the U.S. since they do not fully resolve all issues between the parties, “fails,” following the engine maker opposing the Indian airline’s push to enforce an arbitration ruling in an engine dispute.

President Tayyip Erdogan led comfortably after the first round of Turkey’s presidential election.

Migrant crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border have unexpectedly fallen, not risen.