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AFP was unable to verify the status on the ground in the eastern town, which has turned into the longest and bloodiest fight since Russia invaded Ukraine last year.

A trove of highly sensitive US government documents circulating online includes secret assessments of the Ukraine conflict as well as reports that point to surveillance of close American allies.

The official death toll from the Tuesday morning strike on the remote Kanbalu township in the central Sagaing region remains unclear, with at least 100 fatalities reported by BBC News, The Irrawaddy and Radio Free Asia.

US radio broadcaster NPR on Wednesday said it was quitting Twitter, in the first significant defection by a major news outlet since Elon Musk's tumultuous takeover of the platform.

Read: How President Biden got to Ukraine

The UN also announced it had instructed all its Afghan staff, men and women not to report to the office after the ban was confirmed.

Catholic zealots were nailed to wooden crosses while others whipped their backs bloody and raw in gruesome displays of religious devotion on Good Friday in the Philippines.

Taiwan leader Tsai Ing-wen on Wednesday held talks with McCarthy in Los Angeles, expressing gratitude afterwards for the meeting that included other US lawmakers and she said showed her island had international support.

Global criticism and concern mounted Wednesday after Israeli police clashed with Palestinians inside Islam's third-holiest site, sparking a military exchange of rockets and air strikes, with fears of further escalation.

<p class="align--justify">Lavrov told the news site <em>Argumenty i Fakty</em> that Moscow is different from Western countries in its relations with Africa in that "we never tell our foreign partners how they are supposed to live. We have no secret agenda".</p>