Top 10 world news: Macron calls for restraint in words and actions over Ukraine crisis and more

French President Emmanuel Macron called for restraint in both words and actions in dealing with the Ukraine conflict, after USPresident Joe Biden described Russian President Vladimir Putin as a "butcher" and said he should not remain in power.A leading energy analyst has said that Russian gas sales to China ''will not make up for the loss of European markets.''

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"I wouldn't use this type of wording because I continue to hold discussions with President Putin," Macron said on France 3 TV channel.

Tatiana Mitrova, a research fellow at the Centre on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University said that, ''China’s real value is as a source of necessary goods after the West imposed sweeping sanctions on Moscow following the attack on its neighbour.''

Pope Francis on Sunday warned of a global conflict arising from war in Ukraine which, he said, had capacity to wipe out humankind from the face of the Earth.

Turkeyand other nations must still talk to Russia to help end the war in Ukraine,Turkey's presidential spokesman said on Sunday, adding that Kyiv needed more support to defend itself.

Shanghai will launch a phased lockdown to curb an Omicron-fuelled Covid-19 outbreak that has hit China with its highest caseloads since the early days of the pandemic, the city government said Sunday.

Israel and the United States will cooperate in preventing a nuclear-armed Iran despite disagreements they have over an emerging nuclear deal, Israel's foreign minister said on Sunday.

The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) on Sunday reported a recent incident of "closedistancemaneuvering" by aChineseCoast Guard (CCG) vessel in the disputed South China Sea that "constrained" the movement of a Philippine ship sailing nearby.

Chinese authorities on Sunday recovered the secondblackboxfrom a China Eastern Airlines jet that plunged into a mountainside last Monday with 132 people on board, state media reported.

A five-year investigation, which will conclude next week, seems to have found that mothers were denied caesarean sections and forced to suffer traumatic births.

ElSalvadoran President Nayib Bukele has urged lawmakers to declare a state of emergency after authorities arrested top gang leaders over a wave of bloodshed that has left dozens dead in just two days.