Conflict

The US is to announce new aid to help Ukraine restore electricity as its people face another week of brutal cold and darkness.

Australia's national terrorism threat level is being lowered from "probable" to "possible", but authorities are warning a deadly attack could still happen here in the next 12 months.

Heavy snowfall is expected in Kyiv while millions in and around the capital remain with little electricity and heat.

"We share your pain," Russian President Vladimir Putin has told a group of mothers of Russian soldiers who have been fighting - and some of whom have been killed - in Ukraine.

Ukraine's car industry has stopped exports to Russia, so the invading country has turned to used Japanese vehicles - and that's putting the pressure on NZ supply, an exporter says.

The British government has told its departments to stop installing Chinese-linked surveillance cameras at sensitive buildings, citing security risks.

Turkey will attack militants with tanks and soldiers soon, President Tayyip Erdogan says, signalling a possible ground offensive against a Kurdish militia in Syria.

At least 30 anti-government protesters have been killed by security forces in Kurdish-populated cities in west Iran in the past week, a rights group says.

Ukraine narrowly escaped disaster during fighting at the weekend that rocked Europe's largest atomic power plant with a barrage of shells.

Arrangements are being made for Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky to speak via video link to MPs.

The Defence Minister says New Zealand could help fund more equipment - and possibly weapons - for Ukraine. Audio

New Zealand's Minister of Defence has been on the ground in Ukraine and Poland, holding talks with officials.

It was the first of two funerals following a blast that raised fears that the war in Ukraine could spiral into a wider conflict.

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North Korea has launched an intercontinental ballistic missile, South Korea says.

Pyongyang fired a ballistic missile while attacking a trilateral summit of the US, South Korea and Japan, where Joe Biden pledged to defend the allies with 'a full range of capabilities'.

A missile that crashed inside Poland was probably a stray fired by Ukraine's air defences and not a Russian strike, according to Poland and military alliance NATO.