RUSSIA: The Defence Ministry claimed today that Moscow’s forces had captured the mining town of Toretsk in their latest breakthrough in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region, where Ukrainian defences are collapsing.

Ukrainian officials did not immediately comment on the Russian claim.

GREECE: Several thousand high school and university students blocked traffic in central Athens today during an anti-government protest against delays to an investigation into a 2023 rail disaster that claimed 57 lives.