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Foreign Minister Lavrov says top officials will advise Putin on next steps when it gets US response to demands, but West still concerned Moscow planning to invade

Itzhak Asefa, convicted for 2018 crash that killed 17-year-old Ari Nesher, set to join Bnei Yehuda: ‘I know and understand that what happened cannot be undone’

On Tonga’s largest island alone, there may be more than 17 million cubic feet of ash to clean up after the eruption. Authorities worry the thick dust could poison water supplies, damage crops and affect human health.

Biden faces no easy options on Ukraine — and Democrats fret he could look weak  The Washington Post White House says Russian invasion of Ukraine remains ‘imminent’  CNN Haley rips Biden foreign policy weakness: Putin smells blood in the water  Fox News ‘Minor

11 cases of new omicron subvariant BA.2 detected in California  KTVU San Francisco Omicron’s new variant cousin, BA.2, has arrived in the US. But don’t panic yet, experts say.  Yahoo News Scientists monitoring new omicron subvariant BA.2  ABC News 11 cases of new

Foreign minister also says unnamed ‘smaller countries’ could be in line to join US-brokered Abraham Accords to normalize relations

An Indigenous community in Canada has identified nearly 100 “potential” graves at a residential school site, months after the discovery of hundreds of children’s remains at former boarding schools rocked the country. The Williams Lake First Nation (WLFN) community said

A Syrian neighborhood targeted by regime bombing lies in ruins, with bodies and broken toys poking out of the rubble; tall, grey buildings are reduced to crumbling, empty shells, their walls blown away or pockmarked by the blast. The scene,

Teen TV is a haven for outsiders. From Saved by the Bell’s resident nerd Samuel “Screech” Powers and the sardonic title character of Daria to, more recently, Stranger Things’ brooding misfit Jonathan Byers and Euphoria’s depressive drug addict Rue Bennett,

The images show populated areas in the archipelago with heavily damaged or destroyed buildings and homes and at least one island covered with ash. (Image credit: CPL Vanessa Parker/New Zealand Defense Force/via AP)