Bargainers: Bipartisan deal near on trimmed $10B COVID bill
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers have moved to the brink of shaking hands on a scaled-back bipartisan compromise providing a fresh $10 billion to combat COVID-19, a deal that could set up … Read More
Zelensky fires two top Ukrainian security officials
Zelensky fires two top Ukrainian security officials and brands them TRAITORS who failed to defend the country in rare example of dissent among ranks in Kyiv Volodymyr Zelensky fired two … Read More
Labor groups close in on Amazon in two tight union elections
NEW YORK — Labor organizers always knew it would be tough to convince Amazon workers to unionize. But a surprisingly strong early showing in a New York election and a … Read More
Asian shares slip as Japan ‘tankan’ shows weaker outlook
TOKYO — Asian shares were mostly lower Friday as a resurgence of Russian attacks dashed hopes for any quick end to the war in Ukraine. The retreat followed a broad … Read More
Images show no forces remain at Antonov airfield, site of the Russians’ first major victory, a sign of waning success around the capital
Lyudmila, 71, and Viktor, 63, cook food at the entrance to the basement of an apartment building in the besieged city of Mariupol, Ukraine on March 30. (Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters) Sergei … Read More
On the ground: CNN reports from Zaporizhzhia as buses carrying evacuees from Mariupol begin to arrive
Lyudmila, 71, and Viktor, 63, cook food at the entrance to the basement of an apartment building in the besieged city of Mariupol, Ukraine on March 30. (Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters) Sergei … Read More
The team says they couldn’t get to Mariupol to help facilitate the safe evacuation of civilians. More than 100,000 people remain trapped there.
(CNN) German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock told CNN that the responsibility for ending the war in Ukraine lays firmly at the feet of Russian President Vladimir Putin. “It’s in Putin’s … Read More
People fleeing the besieged city of Mariupol and Russian-held Melitopol are on buses headed to a Ukrainian-held city, officials say
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Friday it is sending humanitarian aid from Zaporizhzhia to Mariupol in the form of “three cars and nine staff members.” … Read More
2,000 people fleeing Mariupol are on buses headed to a Ukrainian-held city. ‘Today we expect the arrival of a record number of Mariupol residents,’ official says.
India’s Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov are seen before their meeting in New Delhi, India, on April 1. (DrSJaishankar/Twitter/Reuters) Speaking on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Russian Foreign … Read More
Russian official: Ukrainian helicopters struck a fuel depot inside Russia
India’s Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov are seen before their meeting in New Delhi, India, on April 1. (DrSJaishankar/Twitter/Reuters) Speaking on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Russian Foreign … Read More
