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Juan Orlando Hernández, whom U.S. prosecutors accused in recent years of funding his political rise with profits from drug traffickers, can appeal the extradition decision. (Image credit: Elmer Martinez/AP)

An American political extremist accused by the Washington legislature of domestic terrorism is reportedly overseas with dozens of children from Ukraine. “Former Washington state Rep. Matt Shea, the far-right Republican who was found by a House-commissioned investigation to have planned

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Children are buried in trenches, residents scrounge for food and water and hospitals get bombed as Russian troops squeeze the life out of a Ukrainian city

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As the world enters the pandemic’s 3rd year, some ask whether the 70% vaccination goal set by WHO and the Biden administration could in fact be detrimental. Also: See our map of global progress. (Image credit: Nick Underwood/NPR)

The release of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British dual national, with another prisoner, Anousheh Ashouri, is a sign that Tehran is moving closer to returning to the 2015 nuclear agreement with the U.S. and other world powers.

In the two-day battle of Voznesensk, local volunteers and the military repelled the invaders, who fled leaving behind armor and dead soldiers. ‘They had no orders for what to do if they are defeated.’

Businesses flocked to the former Soviet Union in its lurch to capitalism, but the relationship was never easy. The Ukraine invasion has brought it all to a crashing halt.

A faked video of the Ukrainian president telling people to surrender is being shared online.