1. Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has resigned, the highest-profile departure so far in a major government reshuffle ordered by Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

2. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned the United States on Wednesday not to joke about Russia's "red lines".

3. The main United Nations agency for Palestinians said it was making good progress in rolling out a polio vaccine to children in Gaza.

4. The United States announced criminal charges against Hamas' top leaders over their roles in planning, supporting and perpetrating the deadly Oct. 7 attack in southern Israel.

5. Leaders from 50 African nations are in Beijing looking for more pledges of investment, while China will be urging them to snap up more of its EVs and solar panels.