A Russian drone strike on a bus has left nine people dead in Ukraine, with officials saying it was part of attacks targeting civilian infrastructure.
Staff Writers
Officials from the US, Europe and Ukraine are meeting to push for a peace deal between Moscow and Kyiv, but cancellations mean a breakthrough is unlikely.
Elizabeth Piper, Daphne Psaledakis and John Irish
The army senior leadership have completely disassociated themselves from the very men that they sent into harm’s way time and time again at great personal cost.
Malcolm Quekett
A little-known militant group has claimed responsibility for an attack that left at least 26 tourists dead at a resort in Indian-controlled Kashmir.
Fayaz Bukhari
Gunmen have sprayed bullets at tourists visiting a beauty spot in Indian-controlled Kashmir, with at least five people feared dead.
South Korea has conducted live-fire military manoeuvres around the Imjin River, in the city of Paju, about 30km northeast of Seoul.
Israel has launched a big wave of air strikes in Gaza, while a polio vaccination campaign is on hold as an Israeli blockade cripples health care in the enclave.
Nidal al-Mughrabi
Ukraine's port city of Odesa has come under a "massive attack" by Russian drones, as countries prepare to meet for potentially decisive talks to end the war.
Illia Novikov
A Sudanese activist group says the country's paramilitary group have attacked a city in the western Darfur region, killing more than 30 people.
Houthi rebels say an airstrike has killed 12 people in Yemen's capital, with US forces conducting a military campaign in response to attacks on trade ships.
Jon Gambrell
Several people have been detained in Lebanon over a plot to launch rockets into Israel, authorities say.
According to the Australian War Memorial, almost a million Australians served in WWII. But figures show there there were only about 1300 Australian WWII veterans remaining at December last year.
Kyiv and the eastern half of Ukraine are under air alerts, hours after the one-day Easter ceasefire declared by Russian President Vladimir Putin expired.
A probe into the killings of 15 medics in the Gaza Strip by Israeli forces notes a chain of "professional failures," with a deputy commander to be dismissed.
For WWII veteran Alan Stacy sharing his birthday with Anzac Day is a stroke of good fortune - just like reaching the ripe old age 100.
John Flint
The fate of an Israeli soldier believed to be the last American held captive in Gaza remains unknown after Hamas said it recovered the body of his captor.
Nidal al-Mughrabi, Jaidaa Taha and Alexander Cornwell
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says Russian attacks have not stopped during the Easter ceasefire declared by Vladimir Putin.
Guy Faulconbridge and Pavel Polityuk
The US military says strikes strikes on Yemen's Ras Isa fuel terminal aimed to cut off a source of fuel for the Houthi militant group.
Mohammed Ghobari, Ismail Shakil, Sarah Morland, Hatem Maher and Jana Choukeir
A Gaza ceasefire offer that reached Egyptian mediators includes talks on a final settlement to the war but no firm agreement.
Ukrainian authorities says the bodies of 909 troops have been received from Russia after mediation from the International Red Cross.
Russian Good Friday missile strikes have killed at least two people in Ukraine as a promised to suspend such attacks remains in tatters.
The United States military says strikes on the Ras Isa fuel port in western Yemen were carried out to cut off a source of fuel for the Houthi militant group.
Ismail Shakil and Sarah Morland
Hamas says they are ready to return all remaining Israeli hostages as part of a broader deal for peace in Gaza, and will no longer agree to interim deals.
The US may be ready to "move on" from efforts for a Russia-Ukraine peace deal if there's not progress in the coming days, Secretary of State Marco Rubio warns.
Bart H Meijer and Dominique Vidalon
