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A view of a residential building destroyed as a result shellfire few weeks ago on April 8, 2022 in ...
ADAM SCHRECK and CARA ANNA, Associated Press

More flee as Ukraine warns of stepped-up Russian attacks

Civilian evacuations are moving forward in patches of battle-scarred eastern Ukraine a day after a missile strike killed at least 52 people at a train station where thousands were waiting to leave before an expected Russian onslaught.
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Smoke rises from a fire in the Amazon rainforest in Ruropolis, Brazil on November 29, 2019. (Leo Co...
Camilo Rocha and Stefano Pozzebon, CNN and Reuters

Brazil’s Amazon rainforest has already reached a new deforestation record this year

The portion of Amazon rainforest impacted by deforestation in the first three months of 2022 was the highest ever recorded, according to a new report by Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE).
2 years ago
People cross the destroyed bridge to the city on April 7, 2022, in Irpin, Ukraine. The Russian retr...
ADAM SCHRECK and CARA ANNA, Associated Press

Missile kills at least 52 at crowded Ukrainian train station

At least 52 people died in an attack on a crowd of mostly women and children trying to flee a looming Russian offensive in the country’s east.
2 years ago
Quilts bound for Ukraine are stacked in the Lehi home of Gina and Hall Halladay. (KSL TV)...
Jed Boal, KSL TV

Lehi couple determined to wrap Ukraine with quilts

During the past month, many Utahns have stepped up to offer support and aid to the Ukrainian people.  A couple in Lehi, with new ties to Ukrainians, has started a movement to wrap Ukraine with quilts. 
2 years ago
BREMEN, GERMANY - MARCH 10: A smokestack stands behind piles of coal at the coal-fired Onyx Kraftwe...
Associated Press

Europe agrees to ban Russian coal, but struggles on oil, gas

The coal ban should cost Russia 4 billion euros ($4.4 billion) a year, the EU’s executive commission said.
2 years ago
The results of the votes to expel Russia from the U.N. Human Rights Council of members of the Unite...
EDITH M. LEDERER and JENNIFER PELTZ, Associated Press

UN assembly suspends Russia from top human rights body

The U.N. General Assembly voted Thursday to suspend Russia from the world organization’s leading human rights body over allegations of horrific rights violations by Russian soldiers in Ukraine.
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Debbie Worthen, KSL TV

From bomb shelter to bunkers: One couple’s monthlong escape from Ukraine to the US

It took them a month, traveling through multiple countries, staying in bunkers and bomb shelters before getting visa approval to come to the United States. They arrived last night.
2 years ago
Ukrainians who are seeking asylum in the United States gather in a city government shelter for Ukra...
ELLIOT SPAGAT, Associated Press

Ukrainian refugees find route to US goes through Mexico

Hundreds of Ukrainian refugees arriving daily have a message for family and friends in Europe: the quickest route to settling in the United States is booking a flight to Mexico.
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Jeremy Herb, CNN

Polish president said it’s ‘hard to deny’ genocide in Ukraine after images emerge

Polish President Andrzej Duda said on Wednesday that it's "hard to deny" that Russian forces are committing genocide in Ukraine following the horrific images from Bucha.
2 years ago
A view of the city of Mariupol, which has sustained immense damage under constant shelling and atta...
ADAM SCHRECK and ANDREA ROSA, Associated Press

Mariupol mayor puts the number of dead at over 5,000

The mayor of the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol says over 5,000 civilians have been killed during the monthlong Russian blockade.
2 years ago
President Joe Biden gestures as he delivers remarks on the jobs report for the month of March from ...
SAMUEL PETREQUIN and AAMER MADHANI, Associated Press

US targets Putin’s daughters, Russian banks in new sanctions

The United States has announced sanctions targeting Russian President Vladimir Putin’s two adult daughters and says it’s toughening penalties against Russian banks in retaliation for “war crimes” in Ukraine.
2 years ago
Kostiantyn, 63, stands by an abandoned military vehicle position where his neighbors buried four pe...
AMANDA SEITZ and ARIJETA LAJKA, Associated Press

Russian media campaign falsely claims Bucha deaths are fakes

As gruesome videos and photos of bodies emerge from the Kyiv suburb of Bucha, Kremlin-backed media are denouncing them as an elaborate hoax.
2 years ago
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during an event to mark the 2010 passage of the Affordable Care Act...
AAMER MADHANI and JOSH BOAK, Associated Press

White House: US, allies to ban new investments in Russia

The U.S. and its European allies will impose stiff new sanctions Wednesday, including a ban on new investments in Russia, in retaliation for Russia’s “war crimes” in Ukraine, according to the White House.
2 years ago
FILE: Tesla head Elon Musk talks to the press as he arrives to to have a look at the construction s...
TALI ARBEL AP Technology Writer

Twitter announces it is working on edit feature, day after Musk poll

Well, that was fast. Twitter has announced, via Twitter, that it is indeed working on an edit feature for tweets. Newly chosen board member and now Twitter’s largest shareholder Elon Musk had run a Twitter poll that started Monday asking users if they wanted an edit button. It’s something users have long requested. Do you […]
2 years ago
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addresses the United Nations (UN) Security Council via video...
OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKYI, Associated Press

Zelenskyy at the UN accuses Russian military of war crimes

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has told the U.N. Security Council that the Russian military must be brought to justice immediately for war crimes.
2 years ago
University Librarian Dr Jessica Gardner checks the returned 'B' notebook containing Darwin's Tree o...
JILL LAWLESS, Associated Press

Darwin notebooks missing for 20 years returned to Cambridge

Two of naturalist Charles Darwin’s notebooks that were reported stolen from Cambridge University have been returned, two decades after they disappeared.
2 years ago
A destroyed car is seen amid the ruins of a building on April 4, 2022 in Bucha, Ukraine. The Ukrain...
OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKYI, Associated Press

Ukraine’s leader to brief top UN body on alleged massacres

Ukraine’s president planned to address the U.N.’s most powerful body after even more grisly evidence emerged of civilian massacres in areas that Russian forces recently left.
2 years ago
FILE: Pope Francis (Franco Origlia/Getty Images)...
NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press

Pope still working on meeting Russian Orthodox patriarch

Pope Francis says he is still working on arranging a meeting with the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, despite that leader's seeming justification for Russia's invasion of Ukraine.Speaking to reporters en route home from Malta, Francis said he and Patriarch Kirill were thinking of a possible location in the Middle East, but provided no details other than to recall that they spoke by video on March 16.
2 years ago
A Civil Guard stands by the yacht called Tango in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, Monday April 4, 2022. U...
Whitney Wild and Devan Cole, CNN

Russian oligarch’s luxury yacht seized in Spain at US’ request

A 255-foot luxury yacht owned by a Russian billionaire was seized by Spanish law enforcement on Monday at the request of US officials, according to the Justice Department.
2 years ago
Soldiers stand guard outside Turi prison after a deadly prison riot in Cuenca, Ecuador, Sunday, Apr...
Jorge Engels, CNN

At least 20 killed in Ecuador prison riot

Ecuadorian authorities said Monday they are in "total control" of a prison in the south of the country after a riot broke out the day before, killing at least 20 inmates.
2 years ago
Viktor Orban, Hungary's prime minister, waves to the crowd during his final campaign speech ahead o...
CNN's Rob Picheta and Balint Bardi

Viktor Orban, Hungary’s authoritarian leader and key Putin ally, calls Zelensky an ‘opponent’

Viktor Orban, Hungary's authoritarian leader and key Putin ally, calls Zelensky an 'opponent' after winning reelection.
2 years ago
President Joe Biden gestures as he delivers remarks on the jobs report for the month of March from ...
AAMER MADHANI, ZEKE MILLER and CHRIS MEGERIAN, Associated Press

Biden: Putin should face war crimes trial for Bucha killings

President Joe Biden called for a war crimes trial against Russian President Vladimir Putin and said he’d seek more sanctions after reported atrocities in Ukraine.
2 years ago
Burnt cars are seen in the parking lot of the Retroville trade center on April 3, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukr...
OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKYI and NEBI QENA, Associated Press

Russia faces growing outrage amid new evidence of atrocities

Russia is facing a fresh wave of condemnation after evidence emerged of what appeared to be deliberate killings of civilians in Ukraine.
2 years ago
FILE (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)...
KIRSTEN GRIESHABER, Associated Press

Man in Germany gets 90 COVID-19 shots to sell forged passes

A 60-year-old man allegedly had himself vaccinated against COVID-19 dozens of times in Germany in order to sell forged vaccination cards with real vaccine batch numbers to people not wanting to get vaccinated themselves.
2 years ago

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