Bloomberg Russia has launched what Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov hailed as a second phase of the war in Ukraine, and early indications are it could go better for Russia than the first. After a ferocious night of artillery bombardment along a 300 mile (482 km) front line in the east, Russian forces took a pocket of territory including the city ...

  Bloomberg A television news channel in Taiwan apologised after erroneously reporting on Wednesday that China had launched an invasion just outside the capital Taipei, triggering alarm online. Taipei-based Chinese Television Systems, a TV network partially owned by the Taiwanese government, ran a ticker along the bottom of the screen at 7 am local time saying that China had attacked ...

  Bloomberg About 528 ethnic Rohingya refugees broke out of an immigration detention centre in Malaysia, with more than a hundred still at large, according to the Malaysian Immigration Department. The detainees escaped by breaking down the doors and grills to their block at the Sungai Bakap Temporary Immigration Depot in Penang state, the department said in a statement. The ...