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The prospects for peace talks between Russia and Ukraine in the near future remain dim, António Guterres, the United Nations secretary general, said on Monday, adding that he expected the war to rage on as Moscow escalates its attacks on Ukraine’s already decimated infrastructure. “I am not optimistic about the possibility of effective peace talks at the immediate future,” Mr. Guterres said in a year-end news conference. “I do believe that the military confrontation will go on, and I think we’ll have to still wait a moment in which serious negotiations for peace will be possible.”

Home births have been cancelled for some patients on Wednesday as hospitals are concerned that ambulances will not respond to some emergency calls. In some parts of London expectant mothers have been told that home births have been “suspended” due to concerns that ambulances will not arrive to take them to hospital.

The Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill will remove the need for a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria in order to receive a gender recognition certificate (GRC).

Chris Parry told Sky News in an update from Ukraine, that the 4x4 vehicle used to evacuate the most vulnerable citizens was written-off after being hit by a Russian tank round.

Well worth a listen on the events and story of Snake Island in the Blacksea.

Footage has shown the moment the protester is tackled to the ground after lighting a fire outside Buckingham Palace. The suspect is pushed up against the front gate fence of the London estate by a police officer before the pair struggle to the ground.

A white former Texas police officer who fatally shot a Black woman through a window of her home in October 2019 was sentenced to 11 years and 10 months in prison on Tuesday. The former officer, Aaron Dean, was found guilty of manslaughter Thursday in the fatal shooting of Atatiana Jefferson, 28, who had been playing video games at home with her 8-year-old nephew. Dean was responding to Jefferson’s home after a neighbor had called a nonemergency line around 2 a.m. to say he had noticed an open front door.

Two people have died and tens of thousands of households were left without power after a magnitude 6.4 earthquake rocked northern California. The tremor, 215 miles (350km) north of San Francisco, has caused widespread damage to roadways. "Anything that was on the walls broke off the walls," said JB Mathers, a resident of the coastal city of Eureka. Authorities have closed several roads and warned the public to brace for aftershocks.

In ten months of war with Russia, Ukraine's President Zelenskyy has, understandably, not left the country. Robert Moore has the latest on this secretive visit. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is reportedly preparing to visit Washington on Wednesday, in his first known trip outside the country since Russia's invasion began in February.

2022 was supposed to be a year of recovery. Instead, we find ourselves in December, staring into the eyes of another recession.The war in Ukraine has brought us here, that’s unambiguously clear. The Russian invasion unleashed a surge in the price of energy which has trampled on the spending power of households and the profits of businesses.But in the background, the impact of Brexit is also being felt.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited the eastern city of Bakhmut, the scene of some of the most intense combat since Russia invaded the country, on Tuesday. During his trip he met with troops and praised their "courage, resilience and strength" as artillery boomed in the background. Russian President Vladimir Putin also hailed the "courage and self-denial" of his forces in Ukraine, but he did so at a ceremony in an opulent hall at the Kremlin.

Words by ITV News Multimedia Producer James Gray A Holocaust survivor has said it is an "impossibility" that a former concentration camp secretary did not know of the atrocities that were committed there during World War II. On Tuesday, Irmgard Furchner, who was the secretary to the SS commander of the Stutthof concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II, was handed a two-year suspended sentence at the Itzehoe state court in northern Germany. Full story