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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…]

US still skeptical of peace talks as Russia claims to pull back from Kyiv
Valeria Mongelli/Bloomberg via Getty Images (RABAT, Morocco) — The U.S. remains skeptical that Russia is engaging genuinely in negotiations with Ukraine to end its monthlong war against its neighbor. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said [Read More…]

Russia-Ukraine updates: Abramovich attends peace talks after suspected poisoning
Narciso Contreras/Anadolu Agency 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 [Read More…]

North Korea did not launch ‘monster’ missile as they claimed, South Korean lawmakers say
STR/AFP via Getty Images (SEOUL, South Korea) — North Korea’s long-range missile launch last week may have been a modified version of a type they tested in 2017, not the newly developed type of intercontinental [Read More…]

Russia promises to curtail some military activity as progress reported in peace talks
Delegations leave peace talks between representatives from Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul, Turkey. – Onur Coban/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The first face-to-face peace talks in more than two weeks between Ukraine [Read More…]

Russia-Ukraine live updates: Abramovich attends peace talks after suspected poisoning
Narciso Contreras/Anadolu Agency 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 [Read More…]

Ella Mai announces new album, ‘Heart on My Sleeve’, expected in May
Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for The Recording Academy R&B singer Ella Mai announced that her sophomore album, Heart on My Sleeve, is dropping on May 6. In an Instagram post of what seems to be the album cover, the “Boo’d Up” singer says [Read More…]

Royals attend service of Thanksgiving for Prince Philip
DANIEL LEAL/AFP via Getty Images (LONDON) — Members of Britain’s royal family gathered Tuesday to celebrate the life of Prince Philip, who died at age 99 almost one year ago. Queen Elizabeth led the royal [Read More…]

Russia-Ukraine live updates: Talks between Russia, Ukraine begin in Turkey
Narciso Contreras/Anadolu Agency 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 [Read More…]