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Ukrainian officials refuse to surrender Mariupol to Russian forces

6:27pm March 21, 2022

by Jason Beaubien

Russian forces have shown few signs of advancing but are still actively destroying Ukraine. In the southern city of Mariupol, bombs targeted a school which was sheltering about 400 displaced people.

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China Eastern Airlines jet carrying 132 people crashes in mountains

5:10pm March 21, 2022

by David Schaper

A China Eastern Boeing 737-800 with 132 people on board crashed in a remote, mountainous region of China Monday. There do not appear to be any survivors. Investigators are on their way to the scene.

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The living, breathing sauce that's at the heart of China's regional cuisines

4:51pm March 21, 2022

by Emily Feng

One of the great cornerstones of Chinese culture is its food. And at the heart of China's many regional cuisines is one, secret sauce: Lu.

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Thousands of Russians are traveling to Georgia to flee their own government

4:51pm March 21, 2022

More than 30,000 Russians have arrived in the country of Georgia since Russia invaded Ukraine. Russians are fleeing not war, but their own government. And they say they can't go back.

A Ukrainian church in Kentucky raises money for refugees through bake sale

4:23pm March 21, 2022

by Stan Ingold

A church in the town of Nicholasville, Ky., held a fundraiser for humanitarian relief for Ukraine over the weekend. It raised $145,000.

Pedestrians cross a street in front of a billboard displaying the letter "Z" in the colors of the ribbon of St. George and a slogan: "We don't give up on our people," in support of the Russian armed forces, in St. Petersburg, Russia, on March 7.

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The war in Ukraine has reintroduced these words and phrases into our vocabulary

3:07pm March 21, 2022

by Bill Chappell

We're using new geopolitical and military terms — and resurrecting and revising old ones — to discuss Russia's invasion of Ukraine, a conflict in which information is treated as another battlefield.

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A 96-year-old Holocaust survivor was killed when Russian forces shelled his home

2:54pm March 21, 2022

by Rachel Treisman

Boris Romantschenko was killed last week in a Russian attack in Kharkiv. He survived four concentration camps and later "campaigned intensively for the memory of the Nazi crimes."

The Center for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine warns of a sharp rise in online ads seeking truck drivers.

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Russia is trying to recruit drivers who know Ukraine's roads

1:59pm March 21, 2022

by Bill Chappell

There's been a sharp rise in ads for trucker jobs in since March 19, but Ukraine's government says the postings are linked to Russia's military, which has had trouble navigating Ukraine.

In May 2019, residents watch as a China Eastern passenger jet prepares to take off on a test flight from the new Beijing Daxing International Airport. State media are reporting a Chinese airliner from China Eastern with 132 people on board crashed in the

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A Jetliner crashed with 132 aboard in southern China, officials say

1:20pm March 21, 2022

by Emily Feng

Authorities have not yet determined the total number of casualties or why the plane went down as debris is seen littered across a mountainside in Guangxi's Teng county.

A Russian court has banned Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, for "extremist activities." WhatsApp is excluded from the ruling, however.

A Russian court bans Facebook and Instagram as extremist

12:42pm March 21, 2022

by Alina Selyukh

The ruling amounts to an immediate ban of Facebook and Instagram in Russia, where both platforms are already blocked. WhatsApp, which is owned by the same company, is still allowed.