Japan has told its nationals to put off travel to Ukraine for any reason, a warning reiterated on Wednesday by Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno, who said he was aware of the reports about the volunteers.

As of Tuesday, 70 Japanese men - including 50 former members of Japan's Self-Defense Forces and two veterans of the French Foreign Legion - had applied to be volunteers, the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper said, quoting a Tokyo company handling the volunteers.

While chaos ensued around the globe due to the coronavirus pandemic, the influencer fled the havoc with her famous family, including Cristiano Jr, 12, Mateo, five, Eva Maria, five and Alana Martina, five.

In June 2017, the then-Real Madrid star surprised fans with the news he'd welcomed twins Eva and Mateo through a surrogate, and just one month later he and Georgina announced they were expecting their first child together.

Five British men were cleared of any involvement in her death after a long-running probe, with a regional court rejecting an appeal by her parents in July 2020 to persuade judges it was not an accident and overturn an earlier court decision to shelve the investigation.

"There are many people here, like me, who want to do something but can't move around right now," he said, adding that it was his first-ever major donation and the maximum amount he could transfer at one time from his bank.

BRUSSELS, Oct 15 (Reuters) - The European Union and Britain need to intensify efforts to close gaps on negotiations to forge a post-Brexit trade deal and the bloc needs to have a clear plan in the case of a failure of talks, Lithuania President Gitanas Nauseda said on Thursday.

"The Japanese foreign ministry has issued an evacuation advisory for all of Ukraine and we want people to stop all travel to Ukraine, regardless of the purpose of their visit," he told a news conference.

The war in Ukraine has stirred strong emotions in Japan, which has a post-war pacifist constitution that has been reinterpreted in recent years to allow Japan to exercise collective self-defense or aid allies under attack.

"So far we have to intensify our efforts in order to bridge or to try to bridge the remaining gaps, for example fisheries, level playing field and governance," he told reporters before the start of a summit of EU leaders.

A spokesman for Spain's National Police said after the incident: 'Officers have arrested a British man on suspicion of attempted homicide after his wife who is also British plunged from the sixth-floor balcony of their hotel in Benidorm.

Dr Rudolph and Dunstan Lowe lost their daughter Celandine when she was five days old after she was delivered at William Harvey Hospital in Ashford in 2016. They claimed the hospital's response had added to their grief.

Today, the findings of an investigation into an alleged maternity scandal at the trust will be laid bare in a review by Dr Bill Kirkup, who also chaired the investigation into mother and baby deaths in Morecambe in 2015.

Natural gas exporter Woodside Energy has been a major partner of the Fremantle Dockers for almost 13 years but a number of high-profile fans, including author Tim Winton and former WA premier Carmen Lawrence, have now urged to club to end the agreement.

Hundreds gathered for a protest against the Russian invasion last week in Tokyo, while the Ukrainian embassy said it collected $17 million in donations from some 60,000 people in Japan after it put out an online request for help.

'Climate change is already creating catastrophic and deadly conditions for communities here and overseas, alongside massive harm to natural systems that support our economy and wellbeing,' the open letter reads.

TOKYO, March 2 (Reuters) - Keiichi Kurogi was one of dozens of men in Japan who offered to join an "international legion" to fight Russian invaders after Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called for volunteers.