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Intro: India and Japan are set to hold two-plus-two ministerial dialogue this month to discuss the war in Ukraine and bilateral ties.
The Defence and Foreign Ministers of the two counties are also likely to discuss security cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region.
Ishan Garg has more from New Delhi.
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Sacramento police have arrested a second suspect in the mass shooting that killed six people and wounded 12 more.
The suspects are brothers.
Rachel Silverman reports from Northern California.
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Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has criticised the UN Security Council, calling for Russia's membership to be withdrawn. President Zelensky made the comments as he addressed the Council via video link - and listed the attacks he says Russian troops have carried out in his country. Olly Barratt was watching.
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President Vololdymyr Zelensky has compared the atrocities committed by Russian forces in Ukraine to the humanitarian abuses perpetrated by the terrorist group Islamic State.
In an address to the United Nations Security Council he challenged the world body to reform itself, saying if it cannot guarantee peace in countries like Ukraine it might as well shut down.
He offered to host a conference in Kyiv to determine new architecture for the UN, saying the agreement struck in San Francisco in 1945 has now outlived its usefulness.
He spoke by video-link from Kyiv and through an interpreter.
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He claimed the Russians have committed war crimes against civilians in multiple locations across Ukraine, not just Bucha.
And he called for them to face justice at a tribunal similar to the Nuremberg proceedings at the end of World War Two that convicted the Nazis.
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Russia has been accused of committing multiple war crimes during its invasion of Ukraine.
The Kremlin has continued to deny committing any war crimes in Ukraine.
The scenes pictured in the recaptured town of Bucha, just outside of Kyiv, have only amplified calls for Russian forces to be held to account.
But Helen Duffy, professor of Human Rights at the University of Leiden says prosecuting individuals will be difficult.
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New legislation in the UK is set to drastically change divorce proceedings by introducing no-fault divorces.
It's the biggest reform of divorce laws in 50 years and will come into effect from the 6th of April.
Sally Patterson has more in London.
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India's wheat exports hit a record high in the fiscal ended in March in the wake of the Russia-Ukraine war.
As Russia's invasion has cut off Black Sea supplies, India – the world's second-biggest producer of wheat – is eyeing a greater share of the global grain market.
Ishan Garg has more from New Delhi.
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