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Skulls and scythes: Protesters meet for ‘dance of the dead’ near Ramstein Air Base Around 250 peace activists demonstrated outside Ramstein Air Base to protest Western support of the war in Ukraine, German rearmament and the NATO summit in Madrid. Read more >

Russia strikes Kyiv as troops consolidate gains in the east The early morning Russian airstrikes were the first to successfully target the capital since June 5. Read more >

‘We have to stay together’: Biden praises unity on Ukraine President Joe Biden and his counterparts were meeting to discuss how to secure energy supplies and tackle inflation, aiming to keep fallout from the war from splintering the global coalition working to punish Moscow. Read more >   G-7 negotiators put Russia oil price cap on agenda for leaders G-7 negotiators to focus on price cap on Russian oil at the summit in Germany. Read more >   Syrian and Russian paratroopers conduct joint drill Russia is a main backer of President Bashar Assad and has a broad presence in Syria where an 11-year conflict has killed hundreds of thousands. Read more >

A bloody retreat as Ukraine unit hit by Russian cluster bombs As the convoy moved into the farm village of Verkhniokamianske, with many of the soldiers riding on the outside of the vehicles, the first blast struck right by them. It was a cluster bomb, they would later surmise, something that tore through the contingent of men clinging to that side of one truck. Read more >   What happens if Russia defaults on its debt? Russia is poised to default on its foreign debt for the first time since the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, further alienating the country from the global financial system. Read more >   New Jersey mom ‘horrified’ after autopsy shows son’s treatment during Navy SEAL ‘Hell Week’ training Regina Mullen opened her mail to find an Armed Forces Medical Examiner autopsy report, stating that her son, Kyle, died Feb. 4 as a result of pneumonia during the training at Naval Base Coronado in California. Read more >   Former Iran military conscripts say they are unfairly blocked from US travel Since the Trump administration designated Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist organization in 2019, it has become all but impossible for anyone who served in the branch to travel to the U.S. Read more >   USS Gravely returns; for one sailor, the homecoming meant meeting his son Petty Officer 2nd Class Dmitri Rivera was on duty aboard the USS Gravely some 4,500 miles was on duty when his son, Omari, was born. Now, at Naval Station Norfolk, Rivera finally met his son. Read more >   Russia strikes Kyiv as troops consolidate gains in the east The early morning Russian airstrikes were the first to successfully target the capital since June 5. Read more >

 

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