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But he went on to stress that Russia would not relinquish the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine his troops have seized.

In Southern California, the weather service issued a flood watch for Death Valley National Park, the eastern and western Mojave Desert and Morongo Basin warning of moderate to heavy rainfall.

The AfD became Germany's second biggest party in February's federal elections, spreading from its eastern heartland to areas of the west too.

Rescuers are using helicopters to search for survivors in the ruins of remote villages in eastern Afghanistan after a powerful earthquake killed 800 people and injured 1,800 others.

In China's eastern Zhejiang province, a local council is funding drone delivery of hot meals to elderly villagers isolated in the mountains.