China's close ties with Russia have become a sticking point for the West as it works to isolate Moscow over the war.

The move comes two days after nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban won a fourth consecutive term.

International outrage over alleged war crimes in a Kyiv suburb is deepening Moscow’s isolation, as the European Commission proposes a ban on Russian coal and the United States plans a new package of sanctions.

Sweden, Latvia and Estonia also announced their own expulsions. Russia criticized the moves as «shortsighted» and vowed to retaliate.

Outrage mounted over scenes from Bucha, and a Ukrainian official accused Russian forces of detaining aid workers trying to reach Mariupol.

The latest sanctions package would ban Russian coal imports, sanction four Russian banks and ban Russian vessels from E.U. ports. The sanctions still need approval from the bloc’s 27 member states.

The war in Ukraine looms large, but it hasn’t fundamentally shifted the election’s key currents.

Outrage mounted over scenes from Bucha, and a Ukrainian official accused Russian forces of detaining aid workers trying to reach Mariupol.

Investigators taking detailed testimony from victims are «soldiers in our hearts.»

Outrage mounts over Bucha scenes and a Ukrainian official accused Russian forces of detaining aid workers trying to reach Mariupol.

White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters during a news conference Monday that new U.S. assessments indicate Russia is “revising its war aims” in the face of significant opposition.

“This guy is brutal, and what’s happening in Bucha is outrageous, and everyone’s seen it,” the U.S. President said. “I think it is a war crime.”

Kyiv said the humanitarian situation in Mariupol was even worse than in Bucha, as Moscow continued to insist the killings there were “staged provocations.”

The E.U. has worked with the United States and other allies to hit Russia with sanctions packages and other penalties, but it continues to buy Russian oil and gas.

“This guy is brutal, and what’s happening in Bucha is outrageous, and everyone’s seen it,” the U.S. President said. “I think it is a war crime.”

The superyacht is owned by Viktor Vekselberg, an oligarch close to Russian President Vladimir Putin, as Washington seeks to punish Kremlin supporters for the invasion of Ukraine,

Haunting images of mass graves from the Kyiv suburb of Bucha have raised calls for an independent war crimes investigation.

Moscow says the images are fabricated. Western governments and rights groups call them evidence of war crimes.

“This guy is brutal, and what’s happening in Bucha is outrageous, and everyone’s seen it,” the U.S. President said. “I think it is a war crime.”

Amid increasing Chinese rhetoric about unification, some Taiwanese are looking to the island’s Indigenous communities for their own separate identity.

Civilian killings in Bucha spark calls for probes into allegations of Russian war crimes and tighter U.S. and European sanctions.

Carrie Lam will retire from politics, ending a five-year run as chief executive, with a legacy as one of Hong Kong’s most unpopular leaders.

Outrage grew Sunday over horrific images out of Bucha, a suburb of Kyiv, with world leaders calling for new sanctions and investigations into alleged war crimes.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken vowed to use “every tool available” to pursue those responsible for “apparent atrocities” in Ukraine.

For many on both sides of the Atlantic, the battles in Ukraine may mark something stark: a “Zeitenbruch” — a rupture in history, the closing of one age and the entry into another marked by even deeper uncertainty and great power rivalry.

Explosions rocked Odessa early Sunday, while tens of thousands of people remained cut off from desperately needed aid in Mariupol, which the Red Cross still hasn’t been able to reach.

Outrage grew Sunday over horrific images out of Bucha, a suburb of Kyiv, with world leaders calling for new sanctions and investigations into alleged war crimes.

In Irpin, people are emerging to a wasteland of destruction where their neighborhood once thrived.

NATO’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said the scenes of horror and devastation reflected “brutality against civilians we haven’t seen in Europe for decades."

Mikhail Khodorkovsky says they must denounce the invasion of Ukraine if they want to be above suspicion of collaborating with Putin.

Volodymyr Zelensky has emerged as a modern Ukrainian hero, instilling a will to resist and a deep national pride among the country’s population. But as he seeks an agreement with Russia to end the war, he risks becoming a victim of his own succeess, as Ukrainians are in little mood to compromise.

Khan blamed efforts to oust him on a foreign conspiracy that he claimed was backed by the United States.

As Russia's pullback near Kyiv reveals atrocities, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said every missile strike, bomb is “black mark” on leaders who don’t send help.

The anti-Putin protesters face anger as well as support in a country with still-raw memories of its own invasion.

President Volodymyr Zelensky renewed his plea for missile defense systems and planes, saying every missile strike and bombing would be a “black mark” on leaders who don’t send help.