Russia used its newest Kinzhal hypersonic missiles for the first time in Ukraine on Friday to destroy a weapons storage site in the country's west, the defence ministry said.

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky has made a fresh appeal for talks with Moscow, while Russia said its soldiers had entered the centre of the besieged port city Mariupol.

BURI RAM: The mother of a 22-year-old university sophomore who was allegedly beaten to death by seniors last year has called for justice for her son, saying there has been little progress in the case.

Myanmar will resume international passenger flights from Apr 17, the military said Saturday, lifting a two-year ban on foreign tourists.

NAKHON RATCHASIMA: Six passengers were injured when a Bangkok-bound interprovincial passenger bus overturned in Non Sung district in the early hours of Saturday.

China reported its first Covid-19 deaths since January 2021 as the omicron variant continued to spread across the world’s most-populous nation.

The Department of Health has suggested parents spend more time playing with their kids after its survey found 64% of children under six years old spend more than one hour on electronic devices daily.

The country registered 25,804 more Covid-19 cases and 87 new fatalities, the highest in the fifth and current wave, during the previous 24 hours, the Public Health Ministry announced on Saturday morning.

More than 100 Thais are applying to provide free accommodation to Ukrainians stranded in the kingdom amid the war in the Eastern European nation, the Ukrainian embassy revealed on Friday.

Burger King's parent company said on Thursday that it has not been able to close its 800 restaurants in Russia because its independent operator there "refused" to do so.