Mario Monti Fast Facts
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By Tim Lister, Josh Pennington, Luke McGee and Radina Gigova, CNN A Russian military strike hit an evacuation crossing point in a Kyiv suburb Sunday,…
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By Claudia Dominguez and Paradise Afshar, CNN Evacuation orders are still in place for about 600 homes in the Florida Panhandle as crews battle at…
Continue Reading New York Times: Brittney Griner, two-time Olympic gold medalist and WNBA all-star, arrested in Russia on drug charges
By Wayne Sterling and Emma Tucker, CNN Brittney Griner, a two-time Olympic gold medalist and seven-time Women’s National Basketball Association…
Continue Reading Before the Ukraine invasion she made belts. Now, she makes camouflage nets for troops
By David Williams, CNN Weaver Olena Shevtsova sells handmade Slavic and Ukrainian patterned belts, sashes, scarves and even guitar straps online to…
Continue Reading ‘They shoot at anyone who tries to leave.’ Ukrainians describe terror of living under Russian occupation
Christiane Amanpour speaks to 27 year-old Svetlana Zorina, a resident of Ukrainian city Kherson, as the city faces Russian…
Continue Reading ‘They shoot at anyone who tries to leave.’ Ukrainians describe terror of living under Russian occupation
By Tamara Qiblawi and Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN A volley of machine-gun fire erupted just as Andriy Abba’s family raised a toast to celebrate…
Continue Reading Zelensky calls for no-fly zone and harsher sanctions on Russia in Zoom meeting with US lawmakers
By Suzanne Malveaux, Jeff Zeleny and Kevin Liptak, CNN Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told US lawmakers Saturday that his country urgently…
Continue Reading Biden and his team believe Russia’s war in Ukraine could define his presidency
By Kevin Liptak and Kaitlan Collins, CNN More than a week into Russia’s war in Ukraine, President Joe Biden and his team at the White House are…
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Almond Cow examined what’s behind the newest anti-diet diet craze of intuitive eating—and how perspectives among Americans and scientists are…
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What unmaintained roads cost the average driver in every state
With the approval of the federal $1.2 trillion federal infrastructure bill, state governments are making much-needed improvements to roads and…
Continue Reading Former police officer sentenced to 6 years for killing a Black man while responding to a 2019 traffic incident
By Andy Rose and Aya Elamroussi, CNN A former Kansas City police officer convicted in the killing in 2019 of a Black man who was backing a pickup…
Continue Reading Four ways the world has changed since Russia invaded Ukraine
By Joshua Berlinger, CNN Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has taken hundreds of lives on the battlefield and in the Ukrainian cities under…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN It’s been a tough week. The world has watched the Russian invasion of Ukraine unfold during a pandemic that still…
Continue Reading ‘You don’t leave your friends in a fight’: Why this US businessman is staying in Kyiv
By Bob Ortega, CNN One recent evening, American businessman Brent Reynolds was chatting by phone from his fourth-floor apartment on Pushkinskaya…
Continue Reading March 6, 2022 Russia-Ukraine news
CNN’s Clarissa Ward reports from Kyiv where many people are trying to evacuate as Russian forces close in on the capital…
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A man’s video was interrupted by an explosion when the area of the city council was hit by a military strike in Kharkiv, Ukraine, amid Russian…
Continue Reading Putin dials up threats against Ukraine and Western powers as stalled evacuations trap thousands
By Ivana Kottasová, Radina Gigova, Olga Voitovych and Tim Lister, CNN Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a series of threats against Ukraine…
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Russian forces “occupied” Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant after a fire at the facility, Ukrainian authorities said as US Secretary of…
Continue Reading Hong Kong bet on zero-Covid. Now it’s facing a ‘preventable disaster’
By Julia Hollingsworth, Wayne Chang, Elizabeth Yee, Ivan Watson and Teele Rebane, CNN Morgues are nearly at capacity, hospitals overwhelmed and, as…
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President Biden has said banning Russian oil is still on the table, but here is why weaponizing oil and gas is a measure both sides would prefer…
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Continue Reading Russia condemned over deadly Mariupol children’s hospital bombing as WHO highlights pattern of strikes on medical facilities
CNN’s Arwa Damon reports on the dangerous effort to evacuate sick children, who spend most of their time in the hospital, out of Ukraine amid…
Continue Reading Terminally ill children flee war-torn Kharkiv on makeshift medical train
By Arwa Damon, AnneClaire Stapleton and Alex Platt, CNN The medical team is not entirely sure what to expect as the train creaks to a stop in the…
Continue Reading Russia poised to deploy up to 1,000 more mercenaries to Ukraine as official warns Moscow could ‘bombard cities into submission’
By Natasha Bertrand, Oren Liebermann and Barbara Starr, CNN Russia is poised to deploy up to 1,000 more mercenaries to Ukraine in the coming days and…
Continue Reading North Korea launches 9th missile test of the year
By Yoonjung Seo, Junko Ogura and Jessie Yeung, CNN North Korea fired a single ballistic missile into waters off the east of the Korean Peninsula on…
Continue Reading How dangerous was Russia’s attack at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant?
By Rob Picheta, CNN Russian troops have occupied Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, after fierce fighting near the Ukrainian facility that…
Continue Reading ISIS claims responsibility for blast killing dozens at Shia mosque in Pakistan’s Peshawar
By Sophia Saifi and Saleem Mehsud, CNN The Islamic State (ISIS) has claimed responsibility for Friday’s attack on a Shia mosque in…
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