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Russian forces continue attack on Kyiv and seize Europe's biggest nuclear power plant

4:13pm March 04, 2022

by Ryan Lucas

As Russia's invasion of Ukraine enters its second week, Russian forces continue to pound the capital city of Kyiv. In the south, they've seized control of Europe's largest nuclear power plant.

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Russia is forcing media organizations to scrub their websites and go off the air

4:13pm March 04, 2022

by Michele Kelemen

Media consumers in Russia are losing ways to learn about what's happening in Ukraine. Russia has shut down most independent media and passed a new law criminalizing reporting on the war.

U.S. lawmakers are using the Ukraine crisis to push for domestic energy production

4:13pm March 04, 2022

by Nathan Rott

The U.S. oil and gas industry and its backers are seizing on the war in Ukraine to promote domestic energy production. Opponents say it makes more sense to ramp up renewable energy.

Russia blocked Facebook on Friday citing "discrimination" against state-sponsored media. Here a smartphone user in Moscow watches a Facebook clip of U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday, Feb. 25, 2022.

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Russia blocks access to Facebook

3:35pm March 04, 2022

Russia has cut off access to Facebook inside the country in response to the tech giant's blocking of state-backed media outlets in the European Union.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., seen here in December 2021, has drawn criticism from other lawmakers after making comments that Russian President Vladimir Putin should be assassinated by someone in his country.

Sen. Lindsey Graham's apparent call for Putin to be assassinated draws backlash

3:34pm March 04, 2022

by Bill Chappell

"The only way this ends is for somebody in Russia to take this guy out," the South Carolina Republican said. Democrats and Republicans denounced the suggestion.

People fleeing the Russian invasion in Ukraine and volunteers to help them fill the Hauptbahnhof main railway station on Wednesday in Berlin.

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Ukrainians fleeing war, and volunteers to help them, fill a Berlin train station

2:38pm March 04, 2022

by Esme Nicholson

At Berlin's main train station, hundreds of volunteers distribute food, hot drinks, diapers, toys, warm coats and a helping hand to the Ukrainians disembarking daily.

Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with President Biden prior to a U.S.-Russia summit in Geneva in June.

Past U.S. policy toward Russia looms over how Biden confronts Putin on Ukraine

1:25pm March 04, 2022

by Franco Ordoñez

Critics say the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan emboldened the Russian leader, but former U.S. officials say past U.S. responses to Russian incursions were a bigger problem.

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Fireworks are seen as the Olympic cauldron is lit during the Opening Ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympics at the Beijing National Stadium on March 04, 2022 in Beijing, China.

Calls for peace and inclusion dominated the Winter Paralympics opening ceremony

10:29am March 04, 2022

by Rachel Treisman

Hundreds of athletes are competing in Beijing in this year's events, which run through March 13. The opening ceremony kicked off on Friday, with the world focused on Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Rescue workers and volunteers gather at the site of bomb explosion in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Friday.

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A suicide bombing at a mosque in Pakistan kills at least 30

9:42am March 04, 2022

by The Associated Press

The bombing was the latest act of violence in majority Sunni Muslim Pakistan, where minority Shiite Muslims have come under repeated attacks.

A screen grab captured from a video shows a view of Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant during a fire following clashes around the site in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine.

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What we know about Russia's capture of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power complex

9:37am March 04, 2022

by Geoff Brumfiel

Heavy fighting caused a fire to break out near one of the Zaporizhzhia plant's six reactors, but Ukrainian authorities say the fire has been extinguished. Here's what we know.