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This undated photo shows the Spanish 'Villa de Pitanxo' fishing boat, which sank off Newfoundland on Tuesday. Search operations were ongoing to locate other members of the 24-person crew.

7 are dead and 14 missing after a Spanish fishing boat sinks off Newfoundland

6:34pm February 15, 2022

by The Associated Press

Three crew members including the vessel's captain were rescued. The Canadian air force and coast guard and other Spanish fishing vessels are searching the area.

A protester yells "freedom" towards a person who attempted to stick a paper sign on a truck criticizing the Freedom Convoy protest against COVID-19 measures on Monday.

Ottawa police chief loses job for not acting decisively enough against blockade

6:26pm February 15, 2022

by The Associated Press

Trucks rolled out of Coutts, Alberta, on Tuesday leaving just one blockade in Manitoba near the border with North Dakota.

American Meghan Neville and her boyfriend, Maksym Lushpenko, left Ukraine for Warsaw on Monday. They decided to leave after warnings from the U.S. government that commercial flights might soon stop flying to and from the country amid rising tension with R

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Meghan found love in Ukraine. Now her heart is breaking as she evacuates

6:17pm February 15, 2022

by Wynne Davis

American Meghan Neville and her boyfriend moved to Ukraine to be near his family. But rising tension with Russia forced the couple to evacuate this week. She hopes they can go back in a month or so.

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President Biden delivers remarks on Russia and Ukraine in the East Room of the White House on Tuesday.

Biden says diplomacy continues but a Russian invasion of Ukraine is still possible

5:10pm February 15, 2022

by Brian Naylor

In a brief address, President Biden said reports of Russian troops moving from Ukraine's border would be good news, but the U.S. had not verified it.

The outage hit the website for the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, shown here during a ceremony last October.

Ukraine says government websites and banks were hit with denial of service attack

3:57pm February 15, 2022

by Jenna McLaughlin

The outage impacted the website of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry and the Armed Services as well as two large Ukrainian banks, Privatbank and Oschadbank.

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Germany's chancellor meets with Putin over Ukraine tensions

3:54pm February 15, 2022

by Charles Maynes

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz visited Moscow to talk to Russian leader Vladimir Putin. It came as Russia indicated that some of its troops massed along the Ukrainian border might head back.

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The mood in Russia over Ukraine tensions

3:54pm February 15, 2022

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Russian journalist Vladimir Pozner about the feeling in his country over the Russia-Ukraine tensions.

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Prince Andrew settles with Virginia Giuffre in sexual abuse lawsuit

3:54pm February 15, 2022

by Jasmine Garsd

The U.K.'s Prince Andrew reached a settlement agreement with Virginia Giuffre, who said he sexually abused her when she was a minor. The agreement includes a donation to her abuse victims charity.

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Russia has 'hybrid warfare' options to attack Ukraine

3:54pm February 15, 2022

by Frank Langfitt

Russia needn't launch an ground invasion of Ukraine to devastate the lives of its people. It has a range of what are called "hybrid warfare" options.

Life in the Beijing Olympic bubble

3:54pm February 15, 2022

by Brian Mann

The Beijing Olympics are playing out inside a massive quarantine bubble because of the pandemic. Here's what life is like inside the "closed loop" of these Winter Games.