War

Officials declared Saturday a day of mourning in Luhansk, and public events will be similarly cancelled on Sunday and Monday in Kherson.

Palestinian officials said more than 200 people were killed in one of the single bloodiest Israeli assaults of the eight-month-old war.

In response, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the UN had "added itself to the black list of history".

It is the Kremlin's strongest signal to date that Europe's deadliest conflict since World War II will not escalate into a nuclear war.

At least 35 people were killed and many more wounded after an Israeli military strike at a UN school.

Local journalists told the BBC that an Israeli warplane fired two missiles at classrooms on the top floor of the school in the Nuseirat refugee camp.

Since early May, Israel's military has been carrying out what it says is a limited operation in the Gazan city to root out Hamas fighters.

Joe Biden has aired what he described as a three-phase plan submitted by the Netanyahu government to end the war.

Madrid, Dublin and Oslo said they sought to accelerate efforts to secure a ceasefire in Israel's war with Hamas in Gaza.

Witnesses say Israeli forces have seized a strategically important hill in the southern Gaza city.

An Israeli strike in the southern Gaza city of Rafah set fire to a tent camp, killing at least 45 people - including children.

There are 16 people still unaccounted for after two guided bombs hit a DIY hypermarket in a residential area of Kharkiv.

"We have the right to defend ourselves and the evidence is that the court is not preventing us from continuing to defend ourselves," a Netanyahu adviser said on TV.

Analysis - The order is binding but the court does not have enforcement powers, write's ABC's Eric Tlozec.