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Ukraine rejects Russian offer of passage out of Mariupol

LVIV, Ukraine (AP) - Ukrainian officials defiantly rejected a Russian demand that their forces in the besieged strategic port city of Mariupol lay down arms Monday and raise white flags in exchange fo...

Mar 20, 2022

White House: Biden to visit Poland on Europe trip this week

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden has added a stop in Poland to his upcoming trip to Europe for urgent talks with NATO and European allies as Russian forces concentrate their fire upon cities and ...

Mar 20, 2022

Private investigator says drug kingpin targeted David Ortiz

BOSTON (AP) - A Dominican drug trafficker who was jealous of David Ortiz and felt disrespected by him had him shot at a Dominican nightclub in 2019, according to private investigators the Red Sox slug...

Mar 20, 2022

Car runs into carnival revelers in Belgium, killing 6

BRUSSELS (AP) - A car slammed at high speed into carnival revelers in a small town in southern Belgium early Sunday, killing six people and leaving 10 more with life-threatening injuries. Several doze...

Mar 20, 2022

Zelenskyy says siege of Mariupol involved war crimes

LVIV, Ukraine (AP) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said early Sunday the siege of the port city of Mariupol would go down in history for what he said were war crimes committed by Russian tro...

Mar 19, 2022

Ukraine's leader warns war will cost Russia for generations

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russian forces are blockading his country's largest cities to wear the population down into submission, but he warned Saturday that the strategy will fail ...

Mar 19, 2022

4 US troops die in Norway plane crash; unrelated to Ukraine

HELSINKI (AP) - Four U.S. soldiers were killed in a plane crash in a Norwegian town in the Arctic Circle during a NATO exercise unrelated to the Ukraine war, Norway's prime minister said Saturday. Jon...

Mar 19, 2022

Ukraine's leader warns war will cost Russia for generations

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russian forces are blockading his country's largest cities to wear the population down into submission, but he warned Saturday that the strategy will fail ...

Mar 19, 2022

China reports first COVID-19 deaths in more than a year

BEIJING (AP) - China's national health authorities reported two COVID-19 deaths on Saturday, the first recorded rise in the death toll since January 2021, as the country battles an omicron-driven surg...

Mar 18, 2022

Rep. Don Young, longtime Alaska congressman, dies at 88

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - Don Young, a blunt-speaking Republican who was the longest-serving current member of Congress, has died. He was 88. His office announced Young's death in a statement Friday night...

Mar 18, 2022