1. President Vladimir Putin won a record post-Soviet landslide in Russia's election.

2. Putin warned the West that a direct conflict between Russia and the US-led NATO military alliance would mean the planet was one step away from World War Three.

3. Israeli troops raided the compound of Gaza's Al Shifa Hospital.

4. President Joe Biden will issue an executive order expanding US government research on women's health.

5. Chinese military and state-run media accused the US of threatening global security, days after a Reuters report which found Elon Musk's SpaceX was building hundreds of spy satellites for a US intelligence agency.

6. North Korea fired short-range ballistic missiles into the sea for the first time in two months, as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Seoul.

7. Apple is in talks to build Google's Gemini artificial intelligence engine into the iPhone.