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Ukrainian Official Says Belarus Has Joined the War, as Russia Pummels Kharkiv

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian strikes pounded the central square in Ukraine’s second-largest city and other civilian targets Tuesday and a 40-mile convoy of tanks and other vehicles threatened the capital. Ukraine’s embattled president accused Moscow of resorting to terror

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Russian football federation angered by FIFA and UEFA bans

Russian President Vladimir Putin and FIFA President Gianni Infantino stand together during the trophy ceremony after the FIFA World Cup 2018 soccer final soccer match between France and Croatia at the Luzhniki Stadium. The Swedish Football federation (SvFF) reiterated Monday

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Munich mayor sacks star conductor of city orchestra over Putin ties

Conductor Valery Gergiyev leads the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, at the opening of the Isar Philharmonic in the Orchestra Hall. The mayor of Munich has sacked the chief conductor of the city’s philharmonic orchestra, Valery Gergiev, over his close ties to

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The Ukraine war shows the limits of US power

A police officer stands in front of a large American flag as the sun rises in Jersey City, New Jersey, on September 11, 2021. | Gary Hershorn/Getty Images America is still a superpower. But in the face of Russia, the

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Infant formula promoted in ‘aggressive’ and ‘misleading’ ways, says new global report

UNICEF and the World Health Organization issued the paper. It shows “that formula milk marketing remains unacceptably pervasive, misleading and aggressive,” says Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus of WHO. (Image credit: Alasdair James/Getty Images)

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Old clip shows Zelensky going ‘balls out’ for ‘Hava Nagila’

In 2016, the future Ukrainian leader participated in a ‘piano four hands’ routine, without the hands

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Israeli study: Stem cells may help multiple sclerosis brain ‘repair itself’

Eight of 15 patients who receive NG-01 therapy as spinal injection see better disability scores; inventors say therapy may ‘dramatically improve’ patients’ lives

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Fiona Hill: Putin warned he would use nukes — but Trump didn’t understand what he was saying

One of the world’s foremost experts on Russia and Vladimir Putin believes there’s a grave risk of nuclear war after his invasion of Ukraine. Fiona Hill, the former National Security Council staffer who testified against Donald Trump in his first

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World Taekwondo revokes Putin’s honorary black belt over Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin had his honorary black belt in taekwondo revoked by the sport’s international governing body on Tuesday, over his country’s invasion of Ukraine.” As Russian troops amass outside Kyiv, and hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian refugees flee

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Timeline: The events leading up to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

(Reuters) – Russia launched a large-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24. Here is a timeline of Ukraine’s fraught relationship with Moscow since it won independence in 1991 and the events that led to the current conflict. 1991: Shortly after

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