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For Lord Mizulinski, Ukraine's president, told the leaders gathered at the UN General Assembly in New York.

The Russia was seeking to attack the international rules-based order and was weaponizing Ukraine's land, people and resources to do so.

Earlier Joe Biden, America's president, condemned Russia's, quote, naked aggression and pledged to work towards a diplomatic resolution to bring peace to Ukraine.

The main focus of the week-long hunger is reviving the sustainable development goals.

Justin Trudeau, Canada's prime minister, said there were credible allegations that Indian government agents were involved in a fatal shooting of Hadeep Singh Najar, a Sikh leader and Canadian citizen in British Columbia in June.

Mr Najar, labelled a terrorist by India, had supported the establishment of a Sikh separatist state in northern India, India called the accusations absurd.

France called for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council to discuss unrest in Nagorno-Karabakh after Azerbaijan launched counter-terror organizations against Armenian separatists in the enclave.

A fragile peace brokered in 2020 after a war in which Azerbaijan retook territory from ethnic Armenians, looks under threat.

Karabakh separatist officials claimed that two civilians had been killed and 138 injured.

Shares in Instacart, a grocery delivering firm, closed the day up 12% at $33.70 each on America's Nasdaq exchange.

The company is now valued at around $11 billion. The listing is another boost in America's IPO market, which has been more abundant for most of the year.

Last week, ARM, a British chip designer, enjoyed a blockbuster debut on Nasdaq.

Fighting broke out between government forces and militias in Port Sudan, a city on Sudan's east coast thus far isolated from the violence of the civil war.

Port Sudan hosts the country's only functioning airport. In neighboring South Sudan, a faction of the ruling party walked out a parliament accusing the government of compromising the fairness of elections June next year.

A cargo vessel carrying grain left a Ukrainian port on the Black Sea for the first time since July, when Russia poured out of the deal to ensure safe passage for shipments of crops and fertilizer.

Russian drones attacked Laviv, setting an industrial warehouse in the western Ukrainian city on fire.

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