1. Officials from the United States have joined the investigation into Sunday’s deadly crash of a passenger jet in South Korea. The Boeing 737 operated by South Korean low-cost carrier Jeju Air belly-landed and smashed into a barrier at Muan International Airport in the country’s southwest. The crash killed 179 of the 181 people aboard.
2. Russia and Ukraine have exchanged more than 300 prisoners of war in the latest such swap. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on social media on Monday that his team managed to bring 189 Ukrainians back home. Zelenskyy thanked the United Arab Emirates and other partners for mediating the swap.
3. A Ukrainian delegation including Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha has visited Syria and expressed its desire to remove Russia’s influence from the Middle Eastern country. The Ukrainian officials said that as relief supply, 500 tons of wheat flour are scheduled to arrive in Syria on Tuesday. They also said they are ready to cooperate with Syria in probing war crimes.
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