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Ukraine retakes key Kyiv suburb; battle for Mariupol rages
Mar 22, 2022 by Rick Watts
By NEBI QENA and CARA ANNA KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian forces said they retook a strategically important suburb of Kyiv early Tuesday, as Russian forces squeezed other areas near the capital and their attack on the…
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Ukraine rejects Russian demand for surrender in Mariupol
Mar 21, 2022 by Rick Watts
By CARA ANNA LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian officials defiantly rejected a Russian demand that their forces in Mariupol lay down arms and raise white flags Monday in exchange for safe passage out of the…
Russian strikes hit Ukrainian capital and outskirts of Lviv
Mar 18, 2022 by Rick Watts
By CARA ANNA LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces pressed their assault on Ukrainian cities Friday, with new missile strikes and shelling on the capital Kyiv and the outskirts of the western city of Lviv,…
St. Patrick’s Day parades turn pandemic blues Irish green
Mar 17, 2022 by Rick Watts
By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN NEW YORK (AP) — St. Patrick’s Day celebrations across the country are back after a two-year hiatus, including the nation’s largest in New York City, in a sign of growing hope…
Zelenskyy center stage: Facing Congress, pleading for help
Mar 16, 2022 by Rick Watts
By LISA MASCARO WASHINGTON (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will address the U.S. Congress, the actor-turned-wartime leader’s latest video speech as he uses the West’s great legislative bodies as a global stage to orchestrate support against Russia’s…
War in Ukraine disrupts key supply chains - and lives
Mar 15, 2022 by Rick Watts
By MATT O'BRIEN The Associated Press - It can be hard to measure the ways that Russia’s war in Ukraine has disrupted the global supply of parts and raw materials needed to complete a variety…
World shares mixed, oil down $5.50 per barrel
Mar 14, 2022 by Rick Watts
By ELAINE KURTENBACH BANGKOK (AP) — Shares rose in Europe after a mixed session in Asia on Monday, where Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index sank 5% after the neighboring city of Shenzhen was ordered into…
Russian strikes hit western Ukraine as offensive widens
Mar 11, 2022 by Rick Watts
By YURAS KARMANAU LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia widened its military offensive in Ukraine on Friday, striking near airports in the west of the country for the first time, as observers and satellite photos indicated…
Attack on Ukrainian hospital draws outrage as talks stall
Mar 10, 2022 by Rick Watts
By EVGENIY MALOLETKA and MSTYSLAV CHERNOV MARIUPOL, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian airstrike on a Mariupol maternity hospital that killed three people drew outrage on Thursday, with Ukrainian and Western officials branding it a war…
Top lawmakers reach deal on Ukraine aid, $1.5T spending
Mar 09, 2022 by Rick Watts
By ALAN FRAM WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional leaders reached a bipartisan deal early Wednesday providing $13.6 billion to help Ukraine and European allies plus billions more to battle the pandemic as part of an overdue…
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