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Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam won’t seek second term
VINCENT YU/POOL/AFP via Getty Images (HONG KONG) — Hong Kong’s divisive leader, Carrie Lam, announced on Monday that she will not run for a second five-year term, ending her 42-year political career. Lam presided over [Read More…]
Russia-Ukraine live updates: More Russian troops, Wagner mercenaries move into Donbas
RONALDO SCHEMIDT/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Russian forces are continuing their attempted push through Ukraine from multiple directions, while Ukrainians, led by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, are putting up “stiff resistance,” according to U.S. [Read More…]
Russia-Ukraine live updates: Photos appear to show bodies scattered in Bucha, other cities
MARCUS YAM / LOS ANGELES TIMES (NEW YORK) — Russian forces are continuing their attempted push through Ukraine from multiple directions, while Ukrainians, led by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, are putting up “stiff resistance,” according to [Read More…]
Photographer uses toys to tell stories of children living in war zones
War Toys (NEW YORK) — Processing Russia’s war on Ukraine has been a challenge for all children, especially those who were forced to flee their homes, say goodbye to family members and watch their entire lives [Read More…]
Russia-Ukraine live updates: Russia accuses Ukraine of striking oil depot in Belgorod
MARCUS YAM / LOS ANGELES TIMES (NEW YORK) — Russian forces are continuing their attempted push through Ukraine from multiple directions, while Ukrainians, led by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, are putting up “stiff resistance,” according to [Read More…]
Pope Francis apologizes for Church’s role in Canada’s Indigenous residential school system
Vatican Pool – Corbis/Getty Images (ROME) — Pope Francis apologized Friday for the Catholic Church’s role in running Canada’s brutal residential school system, which saw Indigenous Canadians taken from their families and sent to boarding [Read More…]
Key lessons from the Ukraine conflict about conventional warfare
Murat Saka/dia images via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — More than a month into Russia’s invasion, the Ukrainian military has fared better than many expected given its smaller size, budget and number of munitions compared to [Read More…]
Ukrainians hunting Russians as they leave Kyiv area: Pentagon update Day 36
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Pentagon has been providing daily updates on the Russian invasion of Ukraine and Ukraine’s efforts to resist. Here are highlights of what a senior U.S. defense official told reporters [Read More…]
Reporter’s notebook: Traveling along Ukraine’s southern border
Ibtissem Guenfound/ABC News (LONDON) — Our team spent five days tracing the southern border of Ukraine. We drove more than 650 long miles through the big open, empty lands and packed small towns of Slovakia, [Read More…]
Russia-Ukraine live updates: Russia hands over control of Chernobyl
Anastasia Vlasova/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Russian forces are continuing their attempted push through Ukraine from multiple directions, while Ukrainians, led by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, are putting up “stiff resistance,” according to U.S. officials. The [Read More…]
Russia-Ukraine live updates: Kremlin reacts to US saying Putin ‘felt misled’
Anastasia Vlasova/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Russian forces are continuing their attempted push through Ukraine from multiple directions, while Ukrainians, led by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, are putting up “stiff resistance,” according to U.S. officials. The [Read More…]
Fears grow of renewed violence in Israel ahead of Ramadan
Nedal Eshtayah/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (JERUSALEM) — A spate of deadly shootings in Israel has sparked renewed fears that the security situation is deteriorating as Palestinians approach the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. On [Read More…]
Russia-Ukraine live updates: Putin ‘massively misjudged’ invasion, UK spy chief says
Anastasia Vlasova/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Russian forces are continuing their attempted push through Ukraine from multiple directions, while Ukrainians, led by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, are putting up “stiff resistance,” according to U.S. officials. The [Read More…]
After year of diplomacy, Biden administration confronts difficult realities of Yemen’s war
KeithBinns/Getty Images (ALGIERS, Algeria) — One of President Joe Biden’s first foreign policy moves was a pledge to help end one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises — the war in Yemen — by “stepping [Read More…]
Russia-Ukraine updates: Putin’s advisers ‘are too afraid to tell him the truth’
FADEL SENNA/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Russian forces are continuing their attempted push through Ukraine from multiple directions, while Ukrainians, led by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, are putting up “stiff resistance,” according to U.S. [Read More…]
Ukrainians try to rescue exotic animals from abandoned zoo
VitalyMukhanov/Facebook (KYIV) — A group of Ukrainian volunteers are attempting to rescue animals from a private zoo near the capital that was abandoned after the Russian army bombed and occupied the area. Vitaly Mukhanov told [Read More…]
Warsaw mayor calls on international community to increase aid to Ukrainian refugees
Attila Husejnow/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (WARSAW, Poland) — Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Poland has taken in 300,000 Ukrainian refugees, according to Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski. While Trzaskowski told ABC [Read More…]
Russia-Ukraine live updates: Putin’s advisers ‘are too afraid to tell him the truth’
FADEL SENNA/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Russian forces are continuing their attempted push through Ukraine from multiple directions, while Ukrainians, led by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, are putting up “stiff resistance,” according to U.S. [Read More…]
NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei returns to Earth after record-breaking spaceflight
Bill Ingalls/NASA/Getty Images (DZHEZKAZGAN, Kazakstan) — NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei returned to Earth Wednesday, after spending a record-breaking 355 days in low-Earth orbit. Vande Hei shared a spacecraft with two Russian cosmonauts as tensions [Read More…]
Russia-Ukraine live updates: Russia may ‘single out and detain’ Americans, US warns
FADEL SENNA/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Russian forces are continuing their attempted push through Ukraine from multiple directions, while Ukrainians, led by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, are putting up “stiff resistance,” according to U.S. [Read More…]