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Ukrainian woman looks back on the Russian missile attack that changed her life

7:34am January 30, 2024

by Elissa Nadworny

London art student Svitlana Dolbysheva was back in Ukraine for the holidays working for a foreign TV crew in Kharkiv when a Russian missile hit the hotel where she was staying. She was badly injured.

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Farmers surround Paris in what they're calling a siege of the French capital

5:11am January 30, 2024

A movable blockade by French farmers protesting inflation and competition from the European Union has reached Paris. Highways leading in and out of the city are blocked by hundreds of tractors.

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Morning news brief

5:11am January 30, 2024

U.S. weighs a response to a drone strike that killed American soldiers. Texas bars federal agents from entering a park used by migrants illegally entering the U.S. A farmers' blockade reaches Paris.

A woman casts her ballot at a polling station during presidential election in Helsinki, Finland, Sunday, Jan. 28, 2024.

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NATO newcomer Finland's presidential election is headed for a runoff

2:55pm January 28, 2024

by The Associated Press

Ex-Prime Minister Alexander Stubb, who represents the conservative National Coalition Party, will face former Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto, who is making his third run for the office, on Feb. 11.

People watch slurry, manure and tyres dumped by farmers at the entrance of the local state administration building, in Agen, southwestern France, Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024. French farmers have vowed to continue protesting and are maintaining traffic barricades on some of the country's major roads.

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Climate activists throw soup at glass protecting Mona Lisa in Paris

7:30am January 28, 2024

by The Associated Press

Two climate activists hurled soup Sunday at the glass protecting the Mona Lisa at the Louvre Museum in Paris and shouted slogans advocating for a sustainable food system.

FILE - A Ukrainian serviceman of the 3rd Assault Brigade fires a 122mm mortar towards Russian positions at the front line, near Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Sunday, July 2, 2023. Employees from a Ukrainian arms firm conspired with defense ministry officials to embezzle almost $40 million earmarked to buy 100,000 mortar shells for the war with Russia, Ukraine's security service reported.

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Ukraine says corrupt officials stole $40 million meant to buy arms for the war

4:35am January 28, 2024

by The Associated Press

Employees from a Ukrainian arms firm conspired with defense ministry officials to embezzle almost $40 million earmarked to buy shells for the war with Russia, Ukraine's security service reported.

An F-16 fighter jet is pictured in Santiago, Chile, in September 2023. The U.S. State Department is moving forward with sales to Turkey.

The State Department allows the sale of F-16 jets to Turkey to move forward

3:04pm January 27, 2024

by Willem Marx

The sale of the 40 F-16 fighter jets and upgrades to dozens of other jets became linked to Sweden's accession to NATO, after Turkey had objected.

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Russia and Ukraine exchange blame for a plane carrying Ukrainian prisoners being shot

7:54am January 27, 2024

by Charles Maynes

Ukraine and Russia are blaming each other for the downing of a Russian military transport plane this week, which Russia says had 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war aboard. All aboard were killed.

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On Holocaust Remembrance Day, a look at how Germany remembers the past

7:54am January 27, 2024

by Rob Schmitz

Germany devotes enormous resources to educating school children about the Holocaust, antisemitism, and discrimination. Despite that, antisemitic and anti-immigrant rhetoric has increased.

Ukrainians hit the slopes at a ski resort in Kyiv. Skiing and snowboarding offer locals a bit of joy, despite frequent missile attacks.

Between bombings, Ukrainians find fun (and a sense of normalcy) at a Kyiv ski resort

5:01am January 27, 2024

A ski resort in Kyiv offers a respite during a war that has lasted nearly two years. "We are looking forward to victory but we cannot put our lives on stop," says a parent who brought her family here.

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