As #Ukraine marks one month to the day since the Russian invasion began, the western city of Lviv has settled into a new rhythm of living in a country under attack
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VIDEO: Shelling lights up night sky east of Kharkiv.
Flashes of light illuminate the night sky and a massive fire from Russian bombardments burns east of Ukraine's second city Kharkiv on the night of March 24
Face recognition tech joins war in Ukraine.
Ukraine is employing face recognition technology to identify invading Russian troops killed on its soil, a complex and unprecedented avenue for software already seen as problematic, experts say
- US supports kicking Russia out of G20
- IAEA alarm over shelling of Chernobyl staff town
- Chechen leader says forces have taken Mariupol city hall
- Biden to visit Polish town near Ukraine border
@AFP’s Sergei Supinsky photographs climbers draping canvas over and building wooden shields around Kyiv’s statue of Grand Prince Vladimir the Great - to protect the oldest monument and symbol of the Ukrainian capital from Russian shelling
VIDEO: Images of destruction in besieged city of Mariupol.
Ukraine says nearly 100,000 people are trapped without food, water or power under fierce shelling by Russian forces. Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov says forces from his Russian region have taken control of the city hall
#BREAKING Russia says destroyed largest military fuel storage site in Ukraine
#BREAKING 300 feared dead in Russian strike on Mariupol theatre: city hall
US President Joe Biden will travel to a town near the Polish-Ukrainian border Friday, trying to signal Western resolve in the face of a Russian invasion that has increasingly turned to a grinding war of attrition u.afp.com/wsaD
#UPDATE Ukrainian officials in the strategic port city of #Mariupol say some 300 people could have died in last week's Russian strike on a theatre where hundreds were sheltering
📸 Satellite photo captured on March 10, shows the theatre in Mariupol
VIDEO: Images of destruction in Mariupol as Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov says forces from his Russian region have taken control of the city hall in Ukraine's besieged southeastern port of #Mariupol
#BREAKING Ukraine urges EU to close Russia, Belarus borders to enforce sanctions
#BREAKING Russia denies breaching international law with phosphorus bombs
#BREAKING Kremlin says Biden 'diverting attention' from US chemical, biological weapons programme
#BREAKING Kremlin says Russia's exclusion from G20 would not be 'fatal'
#UPDATE The Kremlin has accused US President Joe Biden of seeking to divert attention from his country's chemical and biological weapons programme after he said Russia could use such weapons in Ukraine
#UPDATE Ukraine has called on the European Union to close land, sea and air connections with Russia and Belarus, to tighten a sanctions package the West imposed over Moscow's invasion of #Ukraine
📸 View of the Terehova border pass between Russia and Latvia
VIDEO: A huge plume of black smoke rises from a fuel storage facility in the village of Kalynivka outside Kyiv, as Russia says it has destroyed the military site with Kalibr cruise missiles fired from the sea
#UPDATE The United States and EU have announced a new drive to wean Europe off Russian gas imports and so choke off the billions in revenues that are fuelling Moscow's ruinous war against #Ukraine️ u.afp.com/wsaD
#UPDATE The Kremlin said Friday that Russia's exclusion from the G20 grouping of major economies -- sought by US President Joe Biden over its military action in Ukraine -- would not be "fatal"
Map locating theatre in Mariupol sheltering civilians bombed on March 16 #AFPgraphics@AFP
#BREAKING Putin compares attacks on Russian culture to Nazi book burnings
Opener Imam-ul-Haq hit a fighting half-century to take Pakistan to 136-2 at lunch on the final day of a delicately poised deciding third Test against Australia in Lahore on Friday u.afp.com/wsaH #AFPSports
#BREAKING Australia win third Test to claim historic series against Pakistan
#UPDATE Australia claimed a historic win against Pakistan on Friday, finishing 1-0 up in the three-Test series after winning the final match by 115 runs on the fifth day in Lahore
Kim Jong Un personally oversaw the test-firing of North Korea's largest-ever intercontinental ballistic missile, ensuring his country is ready for "long-standing confrontation" with the United States, according to state media u.afp.com/wsaf
Charts showing test flight altitudes and estimated ranges of North Korea's most powerful missiles #AFPgraphics@AFP
#BREAKING North Korea has 'likely more in store' after missile test: White House
From a bumper 2021 in which sprawling blockbusters finally hit reopened movie theaters, and streaming platforms released more prestige flicks than ever, 10 films remain in contention for the best picture #AcademyAward.
Here's a rundown from @andrewmarszal u.afp.com/wsud
@andrewmarszal Kenneth Branagh's semi-autobiographical #Belfast has long been viewed as a serious #Oscars contender. It depicts the outbreak of violence in his native Northern Ireland in the late 1960s from the perspective of a nine-year-old boy
@andrewmarszal#CODAfilm centers on teen Ruby, the only hearing member of a deaf household in a small US fishing community. The #Oscars contender, which cast deaf actors in lead roles and features copious dialogue in sign language, has been celebrated as a landmark in disability representation
#BREAKING North Korea's Kim ordered test of 'new type' of ICBM: state media
#UPDATE North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un personally oversaw the test-firing of the country's "new type" of intercontinental ballistic missile to boost its nuclear deterrent against the US "imperialists", state media reported Friday u.afp.com/wsLg
North Korea's "new type inter-continental ballistic missile" appears to have travelled higher and further than any previous ICBM tested by the nuclear-armed country -- including one designed to strike the US mainland