A Russian-announced ceasefire was due to begin Thursday at the besieged steel plant in the devastated Ukrainian city of Mariupol, to allow civilians to flee even as its defenders vowed to fight to the end u.afp.com/wBDT
Graphic showing key developments in Ukraine as of May 5, 0700 GMT #AFPgraphic@AFP
#BREAKING Humanitarian corridors at Mariupol steel plant 'functioning': Kremlin
#BREAKING Kremlin says Western arms supplies to Ukraine prevent 'quick' end to conflict
#UPDATE The Kremlin claimed Thursday that humanitarian corridors to get civilians out of Mariupol's Azovstal steel plant were functioning, after the Russian army announced a three-day ceasefire at the site
#UPDATE The Kremlin on Thursday accused the West of preventing a "quick" end to Russia's military campaign in #Ukraine by supplying weapons to the pro-Western country
#BREAKING Zelensky launches global fundraising platform to help Ukraine win war
#UPDATE Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday launched a global crowdfunding platform to help Kyiv win the war with Russia and rebuild the country's infrastructure
VIDEO: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announces the launch of a global crowdfunding platform to help Kyiv win the war with Russia and rebuild the country's infrastructure
#BREAKING Russia 'violated' promised truce at Mariupol plant: Ukraine commander
#UPDATE Russia "violated" a truce it promised at the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol, where Ukrainian forces are making a last stand in the city, a Ukrainian commander said Thursday, pleading for help for "dying" soldiers and the evacuation of civilians
War in Ukraine: Latest developments
Here are the latest developments in the war in #Ukraine
* Ceasefire at Azovstal
* Kremlin accuses West on arms, intelligence
* Zelensky appeals for cash u.afp.com/wBrg
#BREAKING More than €6 bn collected at Ukraine donors' conference: Poland
#UPDATE More than six billion euros ($6.3 billion) were collected at a Ukraine donors' conference in Warsaw, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Thursday
#UPDATE Russia on Thursday said Western aid to Kyiv had slowed its offensive in #Ukraine but would not thwart its victory, as conflicting reports emerged about efforts to rescue civilians from a besieged steel plant in the devastated city of #Mariupol u.afp.com/wBDT
VIDEO: More than six billion euros ($6.3 billion) were collected at a Ukraine donors' conference in Warsaw, says Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki
#BREAKING Putin says Russian army 'still ready' to give safe passage to civilians from Azovstal
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has invited Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz and President Frank-Walter Steinmeier to visit, the German president's office said on Thursday, three weeks after Steinmeier was snubbed by Kyiv u.afp.com/wBj5
#UPDATE Russian President Vladimir Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Thursday discussed the Ukraine crisis and the Holocaust amid tensions over Moscow's remarks regarding Adolf Hitler
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#BREAKING Real Madrid beat Manchester City after extra time to reach Champions League final #AFPSports#UCL
#UPDATE Karim Benzema scored an extra-time penalty as Real Madrid pulled off another astonishing comeback in the #ChampionsLeague to stun Manchester City, 3-1, and book a showdown with Liverpool in the final.
Here are three things we learned from the classic Champions League semi-final between Real Madrid and Manchester City, won by the Spanish side in extra time.
Wall Street was nervous on Wednesday as the Federal Reserve was set to make its biggest rate hike in more than two decades to crush inflation that has reached levels not seen since the 1980s u.afp.com/wBuK
#BREAKING US Fed raises key interest rate by half a percentage point to contain rising prices
#BREAKING Additional half-point interest rate increases are "on the table," Fed chief Powell says
Tears and relief, as Mariupol evacuees reach safety.
Civilians arrive by bus in the town of Zaporizhzhia after being evacuated from the besieged city of Mariupol, after a ceasefire allowed them to escape to Ukraine-controlled territory
VIDEO: Smoke rises above the Ukrainian city of Lviv after multiple Russian strikes.
"As a result of the rocket strike (on Lviv), two power substations were damaged. A part of the city doesn't have electricity," mayor Andriy Sadoviy says on Twitter
Ruins of war.
@AFP's Genya Savilov photographs damaged buildings in the Ukrainian city of Chernigiv, amid the Russian invasion.
Russia's withdrawal from Chernigiv after a month-long assault left behind a devastated city that will need massive aid and years of work to restore
President Joe Biden urged voters to defend their "fundamental" rights after a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion that would end nationwide legal abortion sparked a firestorm around one of America's most divisive issues.
@MichaelMathes@SebastianAFP The leak of a draft US Supreme Court opinion that would overturn nearly 50 years of abortion rights in America is an extraordinary breach of the normally jealously guarded secrecy of the nation's top judicial institution.