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Biden on Russia's Putin: `This man cannot remain in power'

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — President Joe Biden said Saturday that Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power,” dramatically escalating the rhetoric against the Russian leader after his invasion of Ukraine. The comment came at the end of a speech in Poland’s…

Russians shift focus from Kyiv -- scaling back goals in war?

WASHINGTON (AP) — Russian forces in Ukraine appear to have shifted their focus from a ground offensive aimed at Kyiv to instead prioritizing what Moscow calls liberation of the contested Donbas region. It seems too early to know whether this…

Chinese airliner crashes with 132 aboard in country's south

BEIJING (AP) — A China Eastern Boeing 737-800 with 132 people on board crashed in a remote mountainous area of southern China on Monday, officials said, setting off a forest fire visible from space in the country’s worst air disaster…

Putin appears at big rally as troops press attack in Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin has appeared at a huge rally in Moscow, praising his country’s troops as they press their lethal attacks on Ukrainian cities with shelling and missiles. More than 200,000 people were in and around the Luzhniki stadium…

Russian strikes hit Ukrainian capital and outskirts of Lviv

LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces are pressing their assault Ukrainian cities, striking on the outskirts of the capital Kyiv and the western city of Lviv, as world leaders push for an investigation of the Kremlin’s repeat attacks on civilian…

American among civilians killed in Russian attack in Ukraine

WASHINGTON (AP) — An American man was killed in a Russian attack on the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv, where he was seeking medical treatment for his partner. The death of Jim Hill, of Diggs, Idaho, was reported Thursday by…

Zelenskyy pleads to US Congress: 'We need you right now'

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has cited Pearl Harbor and the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 in appealing to the U.S. Congress to do more to help Ukraine’s fight against Russia. [field59_video account="WBBJ" key="def0847bcaeb5dff110f05a2d0e91f9fb8cece3a" vtitle="Zelenskyy pleads to…

The Eiffel Tower grows even higher, thanks to new antenna

PARIS (AP) — The Eiffel Tower has grown by six meters (nearly 20 feet) after engineers hoisted a new communications antenna at the very top of France’s most iconic landmark. Tourists watched from the Trocadero esplanade as the new digital…

US astronaut to ride Russian spacecraft home during tensions

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A U.S. astronaut has made it through nearly a year in space but faces what could be his trickiest assignment yet: riding a Russian capsule back to Earth. NASA insists Mark Vande Hei's homecoming plans…