The cleric also launched a sharp attack on the judiciary, claiming recent verdicts suggested the courts were functioning under government pressure.

A team of Ukrainian negotiators was on Saturday headed to the United States for talks on Washington’s plan to end the war, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese married his girlfriend Jodie Haydon on Saturday, becoming the country’s first leader to tie the knot while in office.