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Star performers at the famed New York opera house, including soprano Anna Netrebko and conductor Valery Gergiev, have been closely associated with Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Image credit: Christoph de Barry/AFP via Getty Images)

Russian forces met stiff resistance over the weekend in their invasion of Ukraine. Meanwhile, the European Union is banning Russian planes and sending arms as refugees line up to escape the violence. (Image credit: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP via Getty Images)

Intelligence said to suggest Minsk preparing to send troops across border; explosions in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Chernihiv; military says capital still under Ukraine control; ruble plunges

Exemptions let Europe keep buying Russian gas and oil, moderating prices while maintaining a major revenue stream for Moscow.

For the past two years, contact tracers have skipped meals, power napped at their desks and sprinted to the sites of Covid-19 cases at all hours. Now Omicron is here, many are doing a lot less, despite facing more cases

School closures, mandatory tests and the threat of isolation in government facilities prove the final straw after two years of stringent pandemic controls that still failed to halt an Omicron outbreak in the city.

The nation will boost defense spending and create a strategic natural-gas reserve, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said, marking a significant shift in reaction to Russia’s war in Ukraine.

The European Union on Sunday closed its airspace to Russian aircraft and banned Russian state media outlets RT and Sputnik, which European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen referred to as “the Kremlin’s media machine.” “They won’t be able to

General Assembly vote to take place as early as Wednesday, and unlike Security Council resolution, which Jerusalem did not back, latest measure is sure to pass

‘Show this to Putin’: A medical team fights desperately to save a child in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, but fails, in one of at least 352 civilian deaths during invasion