The DPRK slammed Tokyo’s plans to open the first Asia-based liaison office for the US-led military bloc North Korea’s Foreign Ministry has claimed NATO is seeking to increase its influence in Asia, citing growing “military collusion” with Japan, which hosted a delegation from the military alliance last month to discuss ways to step up cooperation.

The capital was targeted by the most missiles in the shortest timespan so far, Ukrainian military says Russia conducted an “integrated attack” of targets in Kiev in the early hours of Tuesday that was “exceptional in its density,” a Ukrainian military official has said.

Anti-corruption authorities have suggested that other judges may be implicated in the scheme Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) has detained the chair of the country’s Supreme Court, Vsevolod Knyazev, local media have reported. He is allegedly suspected of receiving a $2.7 million bribe as part of a scheme that may involve other officials.