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UNITED NATIONS -- United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on April 26 and 28 respectively, a UN spokesman said Friday, April 22.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday, April 22, seized on remarks by a Russian general as evidence that Moscow would invade other countries if it succeeded in Ukraine. The general had said Russia aimed to capture all of southern and eastern Ukraine and link it to a breakaway province in neighboring Moldova.

Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa on Thursday issued a government decree removing the mandatory use of masks for almost all situations.

At least 34 people were killed and 102 others wounded in two explosions in northern Afghanistan on Thursday, April 21, local media reported.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday slashed global growth forecast for 2022 to 3.6% amid the Russia-Ukraine conflict, 0.8 percentage points lower than the January projection, according to its newly released World Economic Outlook report.

The second phase of Russia's special military operation in Ukraine has begun, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Tuesday, April 19.