Top 10 world news: US journalist reportedly shot dead in Ukraine, and more

A US journalist was shot dead and another wounded on Sunday in Irpin, a frontline northwest suburb of Kyiv.NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has said that Russia can plan chemical weapons operations under the fabrication of lies about biological weapons laboratories.

Danylo Shapovalov, a surgeon volunteering for the Ukrainian territorial defence, said one of the Americans died instantly and he had treated the other.

"We have a responsibility to prevent this conflict from escalating beyond Ukraine's borders to becoming a full-fledged war between Russia and NATO," the NATO chief said.

Russia on Sunday (March 13) launched an attack on Ukrainian military training ground which is closer to Poland. The training ground is located in Ukraine's western city of Lviv.

Russiasaid on Sunday that it was counting onChinato help it withstand the blow toitseconomy from Western sanctions, which it said hadfrozennearlyhalfofitsgold and foreign currencyreserves.

Taiwan's National Security Bureau (NSB) has confirmed that a Chinese military aircraft crashed into the South China Sea.

Finland's much-delayed Olkiluoto 3 nuclear reactor started test production, operator TVO said, delivering power to the national grid which over time is expected to reduce the need for electricity imports and lead to lower prices.

Florida governor Ron DeSantis has criticised Disney for being ''woke'' and claimed it has cozyties with communist China.

The new leader of ISIS, whose appointment the group announced on Thursday, is the brother of slain former caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, according to two Iraqi security officials and one Western security source.

Missile attacks that struck Iraq's northern Kurdish regional capital of Erbil on Sunday were launched from Iran, a USofficial told Reuters, without giving further details.

Chad's military government and dozens of opposition groups startedpeacetalkson Sunday inQataras a first step towards ending a rebellion and holding elections.