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The American oil and gas giant is "beginning the process to discontinue operations" at the Sakhalin-1 project off Russia's eastern coast. The company also says it won't make new investments in Russia.

The lessons of Moscow's involvement in Syria's civil war stand as a specter of the heavy-handed playbook experts fear could be used on an even larger and more deadly scale in Ukraine.

The convoy is apparently being hampered by fuel and food shortages, the official says. The news comes as Russia continues to concentrate attacks on Ukraine's largest cities: Kyiv and Kharkiv.

A new poll from High Point University shows North Carolinians expressed growing fears about Russia even before it invaded Ukraine. 

Ukraine's State Emergency Service said five people were killed and another five injured in the attack on the city's main television and radio tower, and that TV channels won't work "for some time."

Announcements from Shell and BP will further hit Russia's tanking economy — and batter its image as a go-to place for oil and gas investments.

Observers say Russia will likely turn closer to China to make up for supplies of goods and services lost due to sanctions.

Once fired, cluster munitions open in midair and rain down dozens or even hundreds of smaller submunitions, or "bomblets," over a large area the size of one or several football fields.

Russian United Nations Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia called it a "hostile" action.