The marines that deployed to the Los Angeles area on orders from president Donald Trump have not yet been called to respond to the city&s immigration protests and are there only to protect federal officials and property, the Marine Corps commandant said yesterday.

Russia launched one of its largest air strikes on Kyiv in over three years of war and struck a maternity ward in the southern city of Odesa in attacks that killed at least three people, officials said yesterday.

Israeli gunfire killed at least 17 Palestinians and wounded dozens as thousands of displaced people approached an aid distribution site run by a US-backed humanitarian group in central Gaza yesterday, local health authorities said.

An Australian woman accused of the murder of three elderly relatives of her estranged husband by feeding them poisonous mushrooms, yesterday disputed accounts of the fatal lunch given by other witnesses, a court heard.