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US Deputy Ambassador to UN Richard Mills says 12 Russian UN staff are being expelled for non-diplomatic "activities", "so they do not harm the national security" at a UN Security Council meeting on providing humanitarian assistance to Ukraine. SOUNDBITE
US NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara and Russian Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub, members of the International Space Station (ISS) Expedition 70-71 main crew, bid farewell to their relatives and visitors gathered ahead of the launch from the Russian leased Baikonur facility, in Kazakhstan. IMAGES
Ukraine's borders remain "unchangeable" regardless of Russia's recent actions, Kyiv's ambassador to the United Nations told the Security Council. SOUNDBITE
US ambassador John Sullivan leaves the Russian Foreign Ministry in Moscow, after meeting with Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko, and handing Washington's response to Moscow's security demands, according to Grushko. "The head of the American diplomatic mission handed over a written response of the US administration to the draft bilateral treaty on security guarantees," the Russian foreign ministry said in a statement following Sullivan's meeting with Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko. IMAGES
A Russian court sentences a Ukrainian journalist to 12 years in a strict regime penal colony after he was found guilty of espionage, in a case Kiev has condemned as "politically motivated". Journalist Roman Sushchenko, who worked for Ukrainian state news agency Ukrinform for more than a decade, was detained in Moscow in 2016. Russia's FSB security agency accused him of serving in Ukrainian military intelligence and gathering state secrets. IMAGES
Supporters of Zambian President Lungu hold a rally in Lusaka during a tense presidential race, which has been marked by clashes between rival supporters. The presidential election will take place on Thursday. IMAGES.