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Russia-Ukraine updates: Putin blocking hundreds of ships in Black Sea: EC
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…]

Russia-Ukraine live updates: Putin blocking hundreds of ships in Black Sea: EC
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…]

Black box analyzed for pilots’ actions in China Eastern Airlines crash
Zhou Hua/Xinhua via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — During a news conference Wednesday, Chinese authorities said that they believe the recovered device is the cockpit voice recorder. It was found in the main impact point [Read More…]

Russia-Ukraine live updates: US military aid begins to arrive in Ukraine
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…]

Black box recorder recovered from crashed China Eastern Airlines jet
Zhou Hua/Xinhua via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — One of two black box recorders was found amidst the wreckage of a China Eastern Airlines flight, giving investigators hope it will shed light on why the [Read More…]

Russia-Ukraine live updates: Talks with Moscow ‘are moving forward,’ Zelenskyy says
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…]

Amid royal visit, Jamaican official says country ‘moving towards becoming a republic’
Sam Diephuis/Getty Images (KINGSTON, Jamaica) — As Prince William and Duchess Kate are met with protests during their arrival to Jamaica for Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee, which marks the 70th anniversary of her coronation, pressure [Read More…]

Probe widens into mysterious plane crash in southern China
David Ryder/Bloomberg via Getty Images (LONDON) — As investigators try to piece together clues on what caused a Chinese passenger plane to plunge from the sky Monday, officials told ABC News they are looking at [Read More…]

Russia-Ukraine live updates: Zelenskyy says Russia’s ‘goal is Europe’
Andriy Dubchak / dia images 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,” [Read More…]

Prince William, Kate face protests on Caribbean tour
Pool/Samir Hussein/WireImage (NEW YORK) — Prince William and Duchess Kate are facing protests as they continue their week-long tour of the Caribbean to celebrate Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee. William and Kate, the Duke and Duchess [Read More…]

Russia-Ukraine live updates: Moscow responds to Biden on biological, chemical weapons
Andriy Dubchak / dia images 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,” [Read More…]

Prominent Putin critic Alexey Navalny sentenced to additional nine years
Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg via Getty Images (LONDON) — The jailed Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny has been sentenced to an additional nine years, in a fresh trial roundly criticized by human rights organizations as politically motivated. [Read More…]

Doctors on Ukraine border say mental health is top medical priority
Robert Michael/picture alliance via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Since the war in Ukraine began, more than three million refugees have fled — by bus, train, car and foot — for neighboring countries. Some have [Read More…]

K-pop inspired food trucks help COVID-hit restaurants and children in need
ABC News (SEOUL, South Korea) — The scrumptious smell of shrimp patties and brioche buns cooking over a sizzling pan filled the air. Watermelon-shaped rice cake bars were piled up in one corner, iced tea [Read More…]

US recognizes Myanmar’s atrocities against Rohingya as ‘genocide’
Anadolu Agency/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. government has determined the attacks by Myanmar’s military against the Rohingya, a Muslim ethnic minority, constituted genocide and crimes against humanity, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced Monday. [Read More…]

Russia-Ukraine live updates: Ukraine claims Russian general was killed in fighting
Andriy Dubchak / dia images 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,” [Read More…]

Europe’s unified welcome of Ukrainian refugees exposes ‘double standard’ for nonwhite asylum seekers: Experts
WOJTEK RADWANSKI/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Before Russian attacks on Ukraine led to mass displacement, Europe was already grappling with the Syrian refugee crisis – an issue that had bitterly divided European Union [Read More…]

Russia-Ukraine live updates: Russia declares temporary cease-fire in five Ukrainian cities
Andriy Dubchak / dia images 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,” [Read More…]

Moms in Poland leave strollers for Ukrainian moms crossing the border
Kay Nietfeld/picture alliance via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More than 1.5 million people have fled Ukraine since the Russian invasion began, according to the head of the U.N. Refugee Agency, many of whom are [Read More…]

Ukraine pleads for Western warplanes. Will the US help deliver?
Thierry Monasse/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has made repeated and passionate pleas now for the U.S. and NATO to implement a ‘no-fly’ zone over his country and ground Russian warplanes — through [Read More…]