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Volodymyr Zelenskyy: An interview with the Ukrainian President on what a Russian victory would mean

Volodymyr Zelenskyy: An interview with the Ukrainian President on what a Russian victory would mean

Posted by | Apr 5, 2023

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned on March 28 that unless his nation wins a drawn-out battle in a key eastern city, Russia could begin building international support for a deal that could require Ukraine to make unacceptable compromises. He also invited the leader of China, long aligned with Russia, to visit. If Bakhmut fell to Russian forces, their president, Vladimir Putin, would “sell this victory to the West, to his society, to China, to Iran,” Zelenskyy said in an exclusive interview with The Associated Press. “If he will feel some blood — smell that we are weak — he...

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Volodymyr Zelenskyy: Takeaways from the interview with the Ukrainian President on a train to Kyiv

Volodymyr Zelenskyy: Takeaways from the interview with the Ukrainian President on a train to Kyiv

Posted by | Apr 5, 2023

A team of journalists from The Associated Press spent two days traveling by train with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as he visited the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia, which still faces regular shelling from Russian forces, and northern towns in the Sumy region that were liberated shortly after the war began a year ago. Zelenskyy rarely travels with journalists, and the president’s office said AP’s two-night train trip with him was the most extensive since the war began. Here are some takeaways from an interview with Zelenskyy as he returned to Kyiv on March 28. WESTERN WEAPONS Throughout much of...

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Calls for justice: Ukraine marks grim anniversary of the liberation of Bucha

Calls for justice: Ukraine marks grim anniversary of the liberation of Bucha

Posted by | Apr 5, 2023

Ukrainians marked the anniversary of the liberation of Bucha on March 31 with calls for remembrance and justice after a brutal Russian occupation that left hundreds of civilians dead in the streets and in mass graves, establishing the town near Kyiv as an epicenter of the war’s atrocities. “We will not let it be forgotten,” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said at a ceremony in Bucha, vowing to punish those who committed outrages there that are still raw. “Human dignity will not let it be forgotten. On the streets of Bucha, the world has seen Russian evil. Evil unmasked.” Bucha’s name...

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Lanterns and crescents: Holiday shoppers find more mainstream retailers recognize Ramadan this year

Lanterns and crescents: Holiday shoppers find more mainstream retailers recognize Ramadan this year

Posted by | Apr 4, 2023

For this year’s Muslim holy month of Ramadan, retail outlets like Target rolled out its first dedicated Ramadan and Eid collection, including decoration kits with crescent and lantern-shaped cutouts. It is one of the latest signs of big retailers in the United States catering to Muslim shoppers’ needs. With her 3-year-old daughter sitting inside a red Target shopping cart, Aya Khalil looked through the aisles with anticipation. The author was on a mission: See for herself that her children’s book about a boy and his grandmother baking for an Islamic feast was actually carried by her local Target store...

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Under Arrest: Trump faces historic 34-count felony indictment for illegally influencing 2016 election

Under Arrest: Trump faces historic 34-count felony indictment for illegally influencing 2016 election

Posted by | Apr 4, 2023

Donald Trump conspired to illegally influence the 2016 election through a series of hush money payments designed to stifle claims that could be harmful to his candidacy, prosecutors said on April 4 in unsealing a historic 34-count felony indictment against the former president. The payments, said Assistant District Attorney Christopher Conroy, were part of “an unlawful plan to identify and suppress negative information that could have undermined his campaign for president.” Trump, stone-faced and silent as he entered and exited the Manhattan courtroom, said “not guilty” in a firm voice while facing a judge who warned him to refrain...

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“Teflon Don” no more: Criminal indictment of Trump ends decades of perceived invincibility

“Teflon Don” no more: Criminal indictment of Trump ends decades of perceived invincibility

Posted by | Apr 3, 2023

When Donald Trump steps before a judge next week to be arraigned in a New York courtroom, it will not only mark the first time a former U.S. president has faced criminal charges. It will also represent a reckoning for a man long nicknamed “Teflon Don,” who until now has managed to skirt serious legal jeopardy despite 40 years of legal scrutiny. Trump, who is the early frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, is expected to turn himself in Tuesday. He faces charges including at least one felony offense related to hush money payments to women during his 2016...

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