Israel’s government has approved a ceasefire and hostage release resolution for Gaza, according to the prime minister’s office. Follow live updates.

Overall summary of COVID-19 in circulation within the UK

Powerful blasts reported in Kyiv as missiles and drones target energy infrastructure, injuring nine The Ukrainian capital was plunged into darkness early on Friday by what the air force called a “massive attack”, as Russia pummelled Kyiv’s infrastructure, cutting off water and energy supplies and triggering a fire in a high-rise apartment building. Kyiv’s mayor said Russian forces had targeted “critical infrastructure” and nine people had been injured, with five of them taken to hospital. Vitali Klitschko also said power cuts and disruptions to the water supply had hit districts on the east bank of the Dnipro River that runs through the city. Continue reading...

The UK has gone from a bathroom ban being unthinkable to a Labour government implementing an extraordinarily authoritarian one—without a vote.

The number of police-recorded race and religious hate crimes have increased in the year to March.

Inside the “legal black hole” in Eswatini, where Trump is sending detainees.

Systems of oppression often turn their targets into their lifeline

After almost four years in Panama, MSF has ended medical and humanitarian activities in the country, which have focused mainly on providing care to migrants in transit to North America. The closure is...