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Live updates: Ukrainians wait in Mexico City for US entry

Wednesday, 4 May 2022, 06:30 Last update: about 5 years ago Associated Press

MEXICO CITY — Hundreds of Ukrainian refugees are camping out in Mexico City and waiting for the U.S. government to allow them into the country. About 500 evacuees were waiting Tuesday in...

Ukraine hopes for more evacuations from besieged steel mill

Wednesday, 4 May 2022, 06:27 Last update: about 5 years ago Associated Press

Ukrainian officials and the United Nations held out hope for more evacuations from the bombed-out steel mill in Mariupol as scores of civilians reached relative safety after enduring weeks of shelling...

Live updates: UK's Johnson addresses Ukraine parliament

Tuesday, 3 May 2022, 06:47 Last update: about 5 years ago Associated Press

MOSCOW — More than 1 million people, including nearly 200,000 children, have been taken from Ukraine to Russia since the Russian invasion began, Russia’s Defense Ministry said Monday,...

US official says Russia plans to annex parts of eastern Ukraine

Tuesday, 3 May 2022, 06:45 Last update: about 5 years ago Associated Press

A senior U.S. official warned that Russia plans to annex large portions of eastern Ukraine later this month, and the Mariupol steel mill that has become the city’s last stronghold of resistance...

Live updates: Zelenskyy says Ukrainians forced to go to Russia

Monday, 2 May 2022, 06:23 Last update: about 5 years ago Associated Press

KYIV, Ukraine — Sviastoslav Palamar, deputy commander of the Azov Regiment, which is helping defend the last section of Mariupol not occupied by the Russians, said he was glad evacuations had...

Evacuation of civilians from Ukrainian steel plant begins

Monday, 2 May 2022, 06:20 Last update: about 5 years ago Associated Press

After nearly two months of siege, civilians holed up at a steel plant in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol began to be evacuated over the weekend, and people sheltering elsewhere in the city were to be...

May Day rallies in Europe urge more help as inflation bites

Sunday, 1 May 2022, 18:00 Last update: about 5 years ago Associated Press

Tens of thousands of people marched Sunday in cities around Europe for May Day protests to honor workers and shame governments into doing more for their citizens. In France, protesters shouted slogans...

Live updates: Zelenskyy confirms steel-plant evacuation

Sunday, 1 May 2022, 06:33 Last update: about 5 years ago Associated Press

KYIV, Ukraine -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy switched into Russian in his nightly video address to urge Russian soldiers not to fight in Ukraine, saying even their generals expected that...

Ukrainians plead for Mariupol rescue; Russian advance crawls

Sunday, 1 May 2022, 06:31 Last update: about 5 years ago Associated Press

Ukrainian forces fought village by village Saturday to hold back a Russian advance through the country’s east, while the United Nations worked to broker a civilian evacuation from the last...

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