Lissie Harper said she will retire from the public eye once her campaign to change the law following the killing of her husband achieves its goal.

Hailey Bieber confirmed weekend reports that on Thursday, she was briefly hospitalized but has fully recovered. Multiple outlets have reports on how the couple is doing in the aftermath.

Stock markets in Shanghai and Hong Kong slumped on Tuesday, as investors fear the impact of the latest Covid-19 lockdowns on China’s economy. Nearly 30 million people are now living under restrictions in the country, including in the technology manufacturing hub of Shenzen. Also today, Volkswagen has suspended production of vehicles at some plants in Germany over a shortage of parts that are supplied from Ukraine.

The online grocer has signed an exclusive deal with Auchan on the same day it goes to court with AutoStore over a patent infringement dispute.

A former Russian deputy prime minister has criticised the war in the Ukraine. “Wars are the worst things one might face in life …, including this war,” Arkady Dvorkovich told Mother Jones in an interview. Mr Dvorkovich, who served as a deputy prime minister from 2012 to 2018, following a stint as the top Kremlin economic adviser to then-President Dmitry Medvedev, said he remains living in Russia where he is “safe with my family and friends”.

The prime ministers of the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovenia were travelling to Kyiv by train on Tuesday to show support for the country on behalf of the EU, the first foreign leaders to visit the Ukrainian capital since Russia invaded last month. Kyiv has been under Russian attacks: two powerful explosions rocked the capital before dawn on Tuesday. Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Facebook the trip took place on the 20th day of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Putin’s “criminal aggression against Ukraine”.