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European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell decries Russia's attack on the Ukrainian port city Mariupol as "a massive war crime", as the bloc discusses imposing more sanctions on Moscow. SOUNDBITE
Images show Evan Gershkovich leaving court after his detention was extended by two months. Gershkovich, an American Wall Street Journal reporter is being held in Moscow on espionage charges which he denies. The court hearing was attended by representatives of the U.S. Embassy in Russia. He was arrested during a reporting trip at the end of March last year in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg and could spend up to 20 years in prison if convicted. IMAGES
French footballer Benjamin Mendy leaves Chester Crown Court at lunchtime, on the first day of his retrial over two alleged sexual offences, five months after a jury cleared him of multiple other counts. IMAGES
The staff of the Reims University Hospital observed a minute's silence in tribute to Carene Mezino, the nurse killed the previous day by a man suffering from psychiatric disorders. IMAGES
Images from the University Hospital of Reims, northeast of France, where a nurse was killed by a man suffering from psychiatric disorders. A medical secretary was also injured in the attack. According to the mayor of the town, Arnaud Robinet, her condition is no longer critical. IMAGES
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accuses some Arab leaders of ignoring the horrors of Russia's invasion of his country during a speech at an Arab League summit in Jeddah. SOUNDBITE