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Live updates: Zelenskyy says Russia hopes for famine crisis

Tuesday, 31 May 2022, 06:34 Last update: about 5 years ago Associated Press

KYIV, Ukraine -- Ukraineian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the Russian blockade of Ukrainian sea ports prevents Kyiv from exporting 22 million tons of grain. In his nightly address Monday,...

Russians, Ukrainians fight block by block in eastern city

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

Russian troops pushed deeper into a key eastern Ukrainian city Monday, fighting street by street with Kyiv's forces in a battle that has left Sievierodonetsk in ruins. In a bid to pressure Moscow to...

Man in wig throws cake at glass protecting Mona Lisa

Monday, 30 May 2022, 15:38 Last update: about 5 years ago Associated Press

A man seemingly disguised as an old woman in a wheelchair threw a piece of cake at the glass protecting the Mona Lisa at the Louvre Museum and shouted at people to think of planet Earth. The...

Live updates: Russia floats new foreign debt payment system

Monday, 30 May 2022, 13:43 Last update: about 5 years ago Associated Press

MOSCOW — Russia says it may use an arrangement similar to that used for payments for its gas supplies to pay its dollar-denominated foreign debts. The Vedomosti business daily on Monday...

Ukraine, Russia battle in the east as Zelenskyy visits front

Monday, 30 May 2022, 06:02 Last update: about 5 years ago Associated Press

Russian and Ukrainian troops traded blows in fierce close-quarter combat Sunday in an eastern Ukrainian city as Moscow’s soldiers, supported by intense shelling, attempted to gain a strategic...

Wreckage of plane with 22 on board found in Nepal mountains

Monday, 30 May 2022, 05:58 Last update: about 5 years ago Associated Press

The wreckage of a plane carrying 22 people that disappeared in Nepal's mountains was found Monday scattered on a mountainside, the army said. There was no word on survivors. The Tara Air...

Plane with 22 people on board missing in Nepal's mountains

Sunday, 29 May 2022, 10:44 Last update: about 5 years ago Associated Press

A small airplane with 22 people on board flying on a popular tourist route was missing in Nepal’s mountains on Sunday, an official said. The Tara Airlines plane, which was on a 15-minute...

Russia takes small cities, aims to widen east Ukraine battle

Sunday, 29 May 2022, 06:46 Last update: about 5 years ago Associated Press

Russia claimed to have overrun a key rail hub while its troops fought Ukrainian defenders in the streets of another city in eastern Ukraine. The Russian Defense Ministry said the railroad center...

Live updates: Communist deputy demands Russian withdrawal

Saturday, 28 May 2022, 07:02 Last update: about 5 years ago Associated Press

Breaking with the party line in a rare show of opposition to his country’s war in Ukraine, a Communist Party legislative deputy in Russia’s Far East demanded an end to the military...

Ukraine fears repeat of Mariupol horrors elsewhere in Donbas

Saturday, 28 May 2022, 06:56 Last update: about 5 years ago Associated Press

Moscow-backed separatists pounded eastern Ukraine’s industrial Donbas region Friday, claiming to capture a railway hub, as Ukrainian officials pleaded for the sophisticated Western weapons they...

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