IBT Staff Reporter

Three European prime ministers headed to Kyiv by train on Tuesday in a show of solidarity with Ukraine even as Russian air strikes and shelling hit the capital and invading forces tightened their grip.

Russian air strikes and artillery fire smashed into buildings in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on Tuesday as invading forces tightened their grip, while a convoy of civilians headed out of the besieged port city of Mariupol for safer parts.

U.S. President Joe Biden will travel to Europe for an extraordinary NATO summit on Ukraine next week as the refugee tally from the invasion hit 3 million and Russian air strikes on Tuesday hit targets in Kyiv.

U.S. President Joe Biden will make his first visit to Europe since the invasion of Ukraine to discuss the crisis with NATO allies next week, the White House said on Tuesday as the refugee tally hit 3 million amid more Russian air strikes.

Asian stocks were in the red on Tuesday as surging COVID-19 cases in China hit the confidence of investors who are already worried about the Ukraine war and the first U.S.

World stocks fell for a fourth consecutive session on Tuesday as a combination of rising COVID-19 cases in China, the war in Ukraine and worries about the Federal Reserve raising interest rates this week for the first time since 2018 hit confidence.

The three main Wall Street stock indexes rose on Tuesday, a day before an expected interest rate hike by the U.S.

The three main Wall Street stock indexes rallied on Tuesday, a day before an expected interest rate hike by the U.S.

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The yen remained under pressure on Tuesday and the euro edged higher as talks between Russian and Ukrainian negotiators continued, but moves were more muted than in recent days as the market's attention turned to this week's Fed meeting.

The euro rose on Tuesday on hopes of progress in peace talks between Ukraine and Russia, while the U.S. dollar fell ahead of the Federal Reserve policy meeting.

Japan will closely watch exchange-rate moves as market stability was "very important," Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said on Tuesday in the wake of the yen's decline to a five-year low against the dollar.

An Australian court on Tuesday overturned a groundbreaking ruling from last year that required the country's environment minister to consider harm to children from climate change as part of the approval process for a coal mine.

A Boeing 737 MAX jet that took off from Seattle on Monday is en route to the manufacturer's completion plant in China, two industry sources said, in a sign the model is closer to returning to commercial flights there after a three-year grounding.

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Brazil's Economy Ministry is evaluating a temporary increase of the government's Auxilio Brasil welfare program to help people deal with economic impacts stemming from Russia's invasion of Ukraine, two officials told Reuters on Monday.

A convoy of trucks attempted to bring a weeks-long, cross-country protest against COVID-19 mandates into Washington, D.C., on Monday, but police blocked numerous bridges, highway exits and city streets, preventing many of the vehicles from entering the heart of the nation's capital.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) allowed three pork plants to increase processing line speeds this month as part of a trial program, reviving a policy that started under the Trump administration.

The United Steelworkers union (USW) won a vote to continue representing workers at an Exxon Mobil Corp oil refinery in Beaumont, Texas, the U.S.

Jerry Dias, who retired as the president of Canada's largest private sector labor union due to health issues over the weekend, is being investigated by the union for an alleged breach of the union's constitution, the union said in a statement on Monday.

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An FBI agent testified on Monday that Chinese nationals brought to the United States under research visas went to work for ZTE Corp in New Jersey - a possible sign the Chinese tech company violated its probation from a 2017 U.S.

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An anti-war protester interrupted a live news bulletin on Russia's state TV Channel One on Monday, holding up a sign behind the studio presenter and shouting slogans denouncing the war in Ukraine.

Billed by Tehran as a warning to Israel, Sunday's attack on an Iraqi city was also a pointed reminder of Iran's armed clout for its U.S.

The World Bank on Monday announced it was making available nearly $200 million in additional and reprogrammed financing to bolster Ukraine's social services for vulnerable people, on top of $723 million approved last week.

The World Bank on Monday approved nearly $200 million in additional and reprogrammed financing to bolster Ukraine's support of vulnerable people as Russian forces continued the biggest attack on a European state since World War Two.

A lone gunman was sought by police on Monday in five shootings - two of them fatal - of homeless men sleeping on the streets of New York and Washington, D.C., over the past two weeks after security cameras captured his image.