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Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., left, Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., and James Roscoe, Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy Washington, listen as Evgenia Kara-Murza, human rights advocate and wife of Vladimir Kara-Murza, right, speaks about her husband during an event calling for the immediate release of Kara-Murza, who is a Russian opposition leader and journalist imprisoned by the Russian government, Tuesday, April 9, 2024, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

US lawmakers urge release of Russia critic Kara-Murza on the anniversary of his imprisonment

Members of Congress on Tuesday are calling for the immediate release of Russian opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr.
 
People pay respect at the coffins of Ukrainian servicemen Serhiy Konoval and Taras Petrushun, who were killed in a battle with the Russian troops, during the funeral ceremony in Independence square in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

UN atomic watchdog says the status of Russian-occupied Ukraine nuclear plant is ‘extremely serious’

 
In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping meets at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Tuesday, April 9, 2024. Chinese leader Xi Jinping met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov Tuesday in a sign of mutual support and shared opposition to Western democracies amid Moscow's invasion of Ukraine. (Li Xueren/Xinhua via AP)

China’s Xi meets with Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov in show of support against Western democracies

 
FILE - The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Europe's largest, is seen in the background of the shallow Kakhovka Reservoir after the dam collapse, in Energodar, Russian-occupied Ukraine, Tuesday, June 27, 2023. Officials at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant said that the site was attacked Sunday April 7, 2024, by Ukrainian military drones, including a strike on the dome of the plant’s sixth power unit. (AP Photo/Libkos, File)

Ukraine and Russia trade fresh accusations of targeting a major nuclear power plant

 
In this photo released by Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service on Monday, April 8, 2024, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, center, walks from the plane upon his arrival in Beijing, China. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is visiting Beijing to display the strength of ties with close diplomatic ally China amid Moscow's grinding war against Ukraine. (Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service via AP)

Russia Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov visits Beijing to highlight ties with key diplomatic partner

 

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U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen speaks during a press conference in Beijing, China, Monday, April 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)

US will push China to change a policy threatening American jobs, Treasury Secretary Yellen says

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says the Biden administration will push China to change an industrial policy that poses a threat to U.S. jobs.
 
FILE - The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Europe's largest, is seen in the background of the shallow Kakhovka Reservoir after the dam collapse, in Energodar, Russian-occupied Ukraine, Tuesday, June 27, 2023. Officials at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant said that the site was attacked Sunday April 7, 2024, by Ukrainian military drones, including a strike on the dome of the plant’s sixth power unit. (AP Photo/Libkos, File)

Attacks on Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant significantly increase accident risk, IAEA head says

The head of the U.N.’s atomic watchdog agency has condemned a drone strike on one of six nuclear reactors at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine.
 
Rescue workers extinguish the fire at the site of a Russian drone attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, early Saturday April 6, 2024. At least 6 people were killed in Kharkiv in the overnight attacks on Saturday and at least 10 people were injured with blast wounds and shrapnel, said regional governor Oleh Syniehubov. High-rise buildings, a gas station, a shop and a car were damaged. (AP Photo/Alex Babenko)

Russian missile strikes in Ukraine kill 8 and wound 12

Ukrainian officials say Russian forces have attacked Ukraine with drones and missiles overnight, and more strikes followed on Saturday afternoon, killing eight people and wounding 12 more.
 
The Danish naval frigate Niels Juel is docked in Korsoer, Denmark, on Thursday, April 4, 2024. A technical error on a navy missile Thursday spurred Danish authorities to issue a warning, saying there was a risk the missile could launch unintentionally — but not explode — resulting in fragments falling in Denmark waters. (Emil Nicolai Helms/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)

Scandals blight Denmark’s buildup of its armed forces as it eyes possible threats from Russia

A series of scandals has blighted Denmark’s Armed Forces at a time when the country, a NATO member, is building up its defenses, chiefly as a response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
 
Ukrainian servicemen place the national flag on the coffin of their fallen fellow Vadym Popelniuk, born in 1991, during a religious service in Independence Square in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, April 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Ukraine claims it destroyed Russian warplanes in one of its biggest drone attacks of the war

Ukrainian officials are claiming they used a barrage of drones to destroy at least six Russian military aircraft and badly damage eight others at an airfield in Russia’s bordering Rostov region.
 
Workers clear the rubble after a Russian missile attack at DTEK's power plant in Ukraine, on Tuesday, April 2, 2024. Russia is attacking Ukraine’s energy sector with renewed intensity and alarming accuracy, signaling to Ukrainian officials that Russia is armed with better intelligence and fresh tactics in its campaign to annihilate the country’s power generation capacity. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Russia renews big attacks on Ukrainian power grid using better intelligence and new tactics

Russia is renewing its strikes on Ukraine’s energy system. Ukrainian officials, energy workers and analysts say Moscow is using more missiles and better intelligence to strike the electrical grid across the country.
 
French President Emmanuel Macron, center, speaks to journalists during the inauguration of the Olympic Aquatics Center (CAO) in Saint-Denis, near Paris, Thursday, April 4, 2024. The aquatic center will host the artistic swimming, water polo and diving events during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. (Gonzalo Fuentes/Pool via AP)

France’s Macron dismisses Russian remarks suggesting Kyiv and Paris had a role in Moscow attack

French President Emmanuel Macron has dismissed as “ridiculous” remarks by Russia’s defense minister suggesting that Ukraine and France could have had a role in last month’s deadly Moscow concert hall attack.
 
Oleksii Yukov examines the body of a Russian soldier he collected on the frontline in the Sloviansk region, Ukraine, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023. The 38-year-old martial arts instructor leads a team of volunteer body collectors in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)

The true toll of the war in Ukraine is measured in bodies. This man brings them home, one at a time

Oleksii Yukov says the same thing to all the mothers: We will bring your dead children home. The 38-year-old martial arts instructor leads a team of volunteers in Ukraine who collect both Ukrainian and Russian bodies.
 
Firefighter's vehicle is seen on fire after Russian drone strikes on residential neighborhood in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Thursday, April. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/George Ivanchenko)

A drone attack kills 4 people in Ukraine’s second-largest city as Russia builds its war strength

Authorities say a nighttime Russian attack using Iranian-designed drones has killed four people and wounded 12 in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city.
 
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, right, and Belgium's Foreign Minister Hadja Lahbib cut a cake during a ceremony to mark the 75th anniversary of NATO at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, April 4, 2024. NATO marked on Thursday 75 years of collective defense across Europe and North America, with its top diplomats vowing to stay the course in Ukraine as better armed Russian troops assert control on the battlefield. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

NATO marks its 75th birthday as Russia’s war in Ukraine gnaws at its unity

NATO is celebrating its 75th anniversary as Russia’s war on Ukraine corrodes its unity and resolve. U.S.
 
Photographs of fallen Ukrainian servicemen are placed at a memorial in Independence Square, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, April 3, 2024. Ukraine on Wednesday lowered the military conscription age from 27 to 25 in an effort to replenish its depleted ranks after more than two years of war following Russia's full-scale invasion. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Ukraine lowers its conscription age to 25 to replenish its beleaguered troops

Ukraine has lowered the military conscription age from 27 to 25 in an effort to replenish its depleted ranks after more than two years of war following Russia’s full-scale invasion.
 
FILE - Norwegian soldiers march during a military parade ceremony marking the 105th anniversary of the Lithuanian military on Armed Forces Day in Vilnius, Lithuania, Saturday, Nov. 25, 2023. Norway is to increase the number of conscripted soldiers from the present 9,000 to 13,500, the Norwegian government said Tuesday, April 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis, File)

Norway follows its neighbor Denmark in planning an increase in conscripted soldiers

Norway is to increase the number of conscripted soldiers from the present 9,000 to 13,500. Norwegian Defense Minister Bjørn Arild Gram said Tuesday that “we must have enough people with the right skills at the right time.”
 
A boy holds on to the barrel of a tank, part of a display of destroyed Russian military equipment, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, March 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Ukraine aims drones at an oil refinery and a drone factory in its deepest strike yet inside Russia

Officials say Ukrainian drones have attacked a major oil refinery and a drone factory in the province of Tatarstan, in what appears to be Kyiv’s deepest strike inside Russian territory since the war began more than two years ago.
 
Woman cares on the grave of a relative killed in combat at the cemetery in Bucha, outskirts of Kyiv, Saturday March 30, 2024. Ukrainians mark the 2nd anniversary of the liberation of Bucha Sunday. Russian occupation left hundreds of civilians dead in the streets and in mass graves in Bucha during the initial months of the Russian invasion in 2022.(AP Photo/Enric Marti)

Ukrainians file online compensation claims as register opens of damage to homes caused by war

A register for Ukrainians to seek compensation for damage to their homes as a result of Russia’s invasion has opened and more than 100 people have filed online claims.
 
Oleksandr Turovskyi, whose 35-year old son Sviatoslav was among eight men executed in a vacant lot in the suburb of Bucha in March 2022, takes a moment at a memorial on the lot where his son was found in Bucha, Ukraine, Saturday, March 30, 2024. Days after Russian forces withdrew from the area in late March, in the dramatic first weeks of the full-scale invasion, a photo taken by AP Photographer Vadim Ghirda revealed what happened to the eight men. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Life has returned to Ukraine’s Bucha. But 2 years after the killings, some families can’t move on

Two years have passed since Russian forces withdrew from the Ukrainian suburb of Bucha and left exposed one of the worst atrocities of the war.
 
A student of Kyiv State Arts Academy paints as other students and volunteers clear the rubble after the Academy was partly ruined during the Russian missile attack a few days ago in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, March 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

2 dead as Russia launches attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure

A Russian cruise missile strike on infrastructure in Ukraine’s western Lviv region has left one person dead while another died in an attack in the northeast.
 
Egyptians walk past an exchange office in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, March 6, 2024. The Egyptian pound slipped sharply against the dollar on Wednesday after the Central Bank of Egypt raised its main interest rate and said it would allow the currency's exchange rate to be set by market forces. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

IMF confirms increasing Egypt’s bailout loan to $8 billion

The executive board of the International Monetary Fund has confirmed a deal with Egypt to increase its bailout loan from $3 billion to $8 billion.
 
A Ukrainian soldier takes a rest in a trench on the frontline near Liman, Lyman, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Friday, March 29, 2024. (Iryna Rybakova via AP)

Zelenskyy fires more aides in a reshuffle as Russia launches drones and missiles across Ukraine

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has dismissed a longtime aide and several advisers in a continuing reshuffle while Russia unleashed fresh attacks overnight.
 
FILE - Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, attends a joint news conference with Moldova's Foreign Minister Mihai Popsoi in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, March. 13, 2024. Kuleba arrived in New Delhi on Thursday, March 28, 2024, for a two-day visit to boost bilateral ties and cooperation with India, which considers Russia a time-tested ally from the Cold War-era.(AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

Ukraine and India, a historical ally of Russia, hold talks to strengthen ties

India’s foreign minister is meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart, who is visiting to strengthen bilateral ties and cooperation with New Delhi, which considers Russia a historic ally from the Cold War-era.
 
FILE - A cargo ship is stuck under the part of the structure of the Francis Scott Key Bridge after the ship hit the bridge Wednesday, March 27, 2024, in Baltimore, Md. On Thursday, March 28, The Associated Press reported on stories circulating online incorrectly claiming the captain of Dali, the container ship that crashed into Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, is Ukrainian. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week

Social media users shared a range of false claims this week, many of them related to the collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge after it was struck by a container ship.
 
A child climbs on a rusty armored personnel carrier, part of a display of destroyed Russian military equipment in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Russia launches barrage of 99 drones and missiles on Ukraine’s energy system, officials say

Ukraine’s armed forces say Moscow has launched a large-scale attack on energy infrastructure, with a mass barrage of 99 drones and missiles hitting regions across the country.
 
A general view shows an empty Security Council chamber, prior to a Security Council meeting to discuss the situation in the North Korea, at United Nations headquarters, Friday, March. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Russian veto brings an end to the UN panel that monitors North Korea nuclear sanctions

Russia has vetoed a U.N. resolution in a move that effectively abolishes the monitoring by United Nations experts of U.N. sanctions against North Korea over its nuclear program, though the sanctions themselves remain in place.
 
Inna, 71, holds food items found as she stands outside her house which was destroyed by a Russian drone attack in a residential neighborhood, in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, on Thursday, March 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Andriy Andriyenko)

Putin says he won’t start a war with NATO. But Western bases hosting Ukraine F-16s would be targets

Russian President Vladimir Putin has scoffed at the possibility of his country launching an attack on a NATO member, calling it “sheer nonsense.”
 
FILE - Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, attends a joint news conference with Moldova's Foreign Minister Mihai Popsoi in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, March. 13, 2024. Kuleba arrived in New Delhi on Thursday, March 28, 2024, for a two-day visit to boost bilateral ties and cooperation with India, which considers Russia a time-tested ally from the Cold War-era.(AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

Ukraine foreign minister arrives in New Delhi to boost ties with India, a historical ally of Russia

Ukraine’s foreign minister has arrived in New Delhi for a two-day visit to boost bilateral ties between the two countries.
 
A picture of Alexei Navalny on a mural in Vienna, Austria, Wednesday, March 27, 2024. Two large portraits of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny have been spray-painted on a property owned by the family of a former Czech foreign minister behind a monument to Soviet soldiers in Vienna. (AP Photo/Philipp-Moritz Jenne)

In Vienna, 2 portraits of Alexei Navalny are painted near a monument to Soviet soldiers

Two large portraits of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny have been spray-prainted on a property owned by the family of a former Czech foreign minister behind a monument to Soviet soldiers in Vienna.
 
An injured man walks past a body of a man who was killed by a Russian strike in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrii Marienko)

Russia strikes Ukraine’s Kharkiv with aerial bombs for the first time since 2022

Ukrainian officials say Russia has struck the northeastern city of Kharkiv with aerial bombs for the first time since 2022, killing at least one civilian and wounding 16 others.
 
Men of the Ukrainian Jewish community dance during Purim celebrations and a festive meal at the Great Choral Synagogue in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, March 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Ukraine celebrates Purim with costumes and dancing, as war drags on

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Dozens of people gathered in a synagogue in Kyiv this weekend to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Purim, more than two years into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
 
FILE - A sea drone cruises on the water during a presentation by Ukraine's Security Service in Kyiv region, Ukraine, on Tuesday, March 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

Ukrainian navy says a third of Russian warships in the Black Sea have been destroyed or disabled

Ukraine’s navy spokesman says that Ukrainian forces have sunk or disabled a third of all Russian warships in the Black Sea, a major blow to Moscow’s military capability as the war has dragged into a third year.
 
People light candles and lay flowers at a makeshift memorial in front of the Crocus City Hall on the western outskirts of Moscow, Russia, on Sunday, March 24, 2024. There were calls Monday for harsh punishment for those behind the attack on the Russia concert hall that killed more than 130 people as authorities combed the burnt-out ruins of the shopping and entertainment complex in search of more bodies. (Sergei Vedyashkin, Moscow News Agency via AP)

Moscow theater shooting fans flames of a disinformation war

Immediately after the Friday evening attack in Moscow that killed at least 137 people, Russian officials were suggesting, without presenting evidence, that Ukraine was responsible.
 
Ukrainian military experts gather remains of a missile next to a destroyed building in the Pecherskyi district, after a Russian air attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday March 25, 2024. Five people were injured in the strike, two were hospitalized. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Kyiv endures a third bombardment in 5 days as Russia steps up targeting of Ukrainian cities

Russia has launched missiles against Kyiv for the third time in five days. It’s part of an apparent escalation of aerial bombardment of Ukrainian cities as the war stretches into its third year.
 
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