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Russia has denied violating a Cold War-era missiles treaty, following accusations by officials in US President Donald Trump’s administration.

The unnamed US officials said that Russia had deployed a banned cruise missile.

A Kremlin spokesperson said on Wednesday that Russia continued to uphold its international commitments. The US state department has made no official comment.

The alleged deployment is expected to be discussed during Wednesday’s Nato meeting in Brussels, the first since President Trump took office.

Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said he would not comment on intelligence reports but added that any non-compliance from Russia on the arms control treaty would be a “serious concern for the alliance”.

The Brussels meeting will be attended by US Defence Secretary James Mattis. “Nobody has formally accused Russia of violating the treaty,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in a press briefing. “Russia has been and remains committed to its international commitments, including to the treaty in question,” he said.

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Three men have been arrested after two journalists were killed during a live radio broadcast in the Dominican Republic.

One of the journalists was filming his show on Facebook Live when he was shot. The footage showed his broadcast interrupted by gunfire and a panicked woman shouting “Shots! Shots! Shots!”.

Police said the shooting happened on Tuesday in San Pedro de Macoris, east of the capital Santo Domingo.

The two journalists killed were presenter Luis Manuel Medina and radio producer Leo Martinez. A woman was also injured and is undergoing surgery, said local authorities.

The arrested men have not been charged and police say they do not know the motive. “The investigations have begun and we will try, with all the means in our powers, to reach the truth,” Attorney General Jean Rodriguez told the local press.

In August 2015, two US journalists were shot dead during a live TV report in Virginia.

A new centre to protect the UK against cyber-attacks is to be officially opened by the Queen later.

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) in London is designed to improve Britain’s resilience to attacks and act as an operational nerve centre. “We want to make the UK the hardest target,” Ciaran Martin, the centre’s chief executive said.

The NCSC – part of intelligence agency GCHQ – says the UK is facing about 60 serious cyber-attacks a month.

There were 188 attacks classed by the NCSC as Category Two or Three during the last three months. And even though the UK has not experienced a Category One attack – the highest level, an example of which would have been the theft of confidential details of millions of Americans from the Office of Personnel Management – there is no air of complacency at the NCSC’s new headquarters in Victoria. “We have had significant losses of personal data, significant intrusions by hostile state actors, significant reconnaissance against critical national infrastructure – and our job is to make sure we deal with it in the most effective way possible,” Mr Martin says.

As well as protecting against and responding to high-end attacks on government and business, the NCSC also aims to protect the economy and wider society.

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The half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has been killed in Malaysia, South Korean and Malaysian sources say.

Kim Jong-nam, 45, is said to have been targeted at the airport in Kuala Lumpur, the capital. A source close to the Malaysian PM’s office said that Mr Kim was killed in the city, saying his body was now undergoing an autopsy.

Kim Jong-nam is the eldest son of former North Korean leader Kim Jong-il.

Senior Malaysian police have confirmed that a North Korean man died in transit to hospital from the airport on Monday. They have not confirmed his identity.

Both South Korean state news agency Yonhap and Reuters news agency are reporting Mr Kim’s death based on South Korean government sources.

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A World War Two bomb has been deactivated in the Greek city of Thessaloniki after it forced the evacuation of some 70,000 people, officials say.

The 250kg (500lb) bomb was discovered during excavation works. It will now be removed and taken to a firing range. It is thought to be one of the largest wartime bombs to be found in urban Greece.

Police went house-to-house to evacuate residents so the work could be done.

It was one of the largest peacetime evacuations in Greece. Many people left in their cars, but some were sent in buses to schools and sports halls.

The deactivation was delayed as police had to remove a camera placed above the crater by a Greek media outlet, AFP news agency reported.

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