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Russian forces start battle for Donbas: Ukrainian president

Russian forces have begun the battle for the Donbas region, but Ukraine will defend itself, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video address on Monday, April 18.

Pope urges world not to surrender to evil, violence in Easter of war

Rome — On Easter Sunday (Apr. 17), Pope Francis said Jesus, the victor over sin, fear and death, called on the world not to surrender to evil and violence. He made an impassioned plea for an end to the war in Ukraine and urged the faithful to appeal for peace and the end to cruelty and senseless destruction.

Russia claims full control of urban area of Mariupol

MOSCOW -- The entire urban area of Mariupol city in eastern Ukraine has been fully cleared of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and foreign mercenaries, the Russian military said Saturday, April 16.

Soldiers killed attempting to dismantle bomb in Iraq

Xinhua News Agency BAGHDAD - Two soldiers were killed and two wounded Saturday, Apr. 16, while defusing a bomb in Iraq's eastern province of Diyala. "Two soldiers of the engineering corps in the...

Fighting intensifies around Mariupol, but southern port resists

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Friday that the country was seeking to break Russia's siege of Mariupol as Russia continued to assault the southern city and threatened to increase its missile strikes on the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv.

Disinformation campaigns skewing young people’s view of war in Ukraine

WASHINGTON — As the world focuses on Russia’s war on Ukraine, another conflict is raging — on people’s phones.

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