President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday that 10 people, all civilians, have been returned to Ukraine from captivity in Russia and its ally Belarus.Zelensky, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said the group included a prominent member of Crimea's ethnic Tatar community, two eastern-rite Catholic priests and five people who had been captured in Belarus. There were also two civilians held from before Russia's 2022 invasion.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un kicked off a key meeting of the country's ruling party on Friday, state media KCNA reported on Saturday, a little over a week after Pyongyang and Moscow struck a military defense pact that raised alarms for the United States.

Donald Trump said on Friday that his supporters prosecuted for their actions in the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol should be freed, citing a Supreme Court ruling in favor of a man who challenged an obstruction charge related to the riot - a charge Trump also faces.Speaking at a campaign rally in Virginia, the former president pointed to Friday's ruling, which raised the legal bar for prosecutors pursuing obstruction charges in the federal election subversion case against Trump and defendants involved in the attack."Free the January 6 hostages now. They should free them now for what they have gone through" Trump said, as the crowd cheered."They've been waiting for this decision for a long time," Trump added.