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Residents of the besieged town of Debaltseve in eastern Ukraine are taken to safety by convoys of buses but some 3,000 people are reportedly staying behind. Mana Rabiee reports.
Ukraine's First Lady, Olena Zelenska, arrives at Downing Street and is greeted by UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's wife, Akshata Murthy. Zelenska is in London to attend a "Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative" conference, which the UK government is hosting. Earlier on Monday, Zelenska, whose husband is Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, demanded a global response to the use of sexual violence as a weapon, saying Kyiv prosecutors were investigating more than 100 crimes by Russian soldiers. IMAGES
Members of the Lebanese army gather outside the Hamra branch of Federal Bank as a customer, armed with a rifle and threatening to set himself ablaze, holds the bank's workers hostage, demanding to withdraw his trapped savings to pay hospital fees. The incident is the latest between local banks and angry depositors unable to access their savings held in cash-starved banks because of informal capital controls in economic crisis-hit Lebanon. IMAGES
Smoke billows from an oil depot allegedly targeted overnight by Russian forces in the Ukrainian city of Vasylkiv. Moscow ordered its troops to advance in Ukraine "from all directions" while the West responded with sanctions that sought to cripple Russia's banking sector. IMAGES
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg pays his respect to "the Ukrainian armed forces, which are really proving their bravery and their courage by fighting and standing up against the much larger invading Russian force." SOUNDBITE
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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