Bill Chappell

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Maternity patients among 20,000 civilians forcibly deported to Russia, Mariupol says

Wednesday, March 30, 2022

More than 70 hospital patients and staff members from the besieged Ukrainian city have been sent to Russia against their will, officials say, a war crime under the Geneva Conventions.

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Kyiv is urging companies to resume bike rentals so residents can move around the city

Wednesday, March 30, 2022

The announcement comes a day after Russia said its military is shifting forces away from Ukraine's capital and is the latest hint that Kyiv might be heading toward some stability.

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A Jewish, far-right politician is being sued for Holocaust denial in France

Monday, March 28, 2022

The case against Eric Zemmour is the first time someone is accused of Holocaust denial for alleging French homosexuals weren't deported during the war, the plaintiffs say.

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Russian TV editor will reportedly face a fine for her on-air protest

Friday, March 25, 2022

Marina Ovsyannikova, who burst onto the set of a live broadcast holding a sign reading "No War," could be fined between 30,000 and 50,000 rubles when her case is heard on April 14.

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A Russian airstrike may have killed 300 sheltering in a theater, officials say

Friday, March 25, 2022

The Drama Theater had become a place of refuge, with hundreds of people gathered inside and in the bomb shelter below. City officials accused Russia of inhuman cruelty.

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How the false Russian biolab story came to circulate among the U.S. far right

Friday, March 25, 2022

The war over Ukraine's future is being fought on the ground, in the air — and through social media posts and viral videos that take advantage of America's deeply polarized politics.

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Snake Island sailors are freed as Ukraine and Russia conduct a prisoner exchange

Thursday, March 24, 2022

Ukrainian soldiers at the Black Sea outpost made headlines at the start of the war by profanely defying threats from a Russian warship. Russia and Ukraine each exchanged 10 prisoners on Thursday.

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A Jan. 6 Capitol riot suspect wanted by the FBI was granted refugee status in Belarus

Wednesday, March 23, 2022

Evan Neumann is under federal indictment in the U.S. for more than a dozen charges linked to last year's Capitol insurrection. Russian ally Belarus has granted him asylum and protection indefinitely.

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Russia is trying to recruit drivers who know Ukraine's roads

Monday, March 21, 2022

There's been a sharp rise in ads for trucker jobs in since March 19, but Ukraine's government says the postings are linked to Russia's military, which has had trouble navigating Ukraine.

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The war in Ukraine has reintroduced these words and phrases into our vocabulary

Monday, March 21, 2022

We're using new geopolitical and military terms — and resurrecting and revising old ones — to discuss Russia's invasion of Ukraine, a conflict in which information is treated as another battlefield.

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109 empty strollers sit in a Lviv square, representing children killed in the war

Friday, March 18, 2022

"This is a terrible price of war that Ukraine is paying today," Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi said as his city paid tribute to the youngest victims of violence.

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130 people rescued from bombed Mariupol theater as crews search for hundreds more

Thursday, March 17, 2022

As many as 1,000 or more people were in the theater and its shelter Wednesday at the time of the Russian airstrike, officials said.

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A Russian oligarch's superyacht is stuck in Norway because no one will sell it fuel

Wednesday, March 16, 2022

The Ragnar is owned by Russian oligarch Vladimir Strzhalkovsky, a former KGB agent with deep ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Onboard amenities include an amphibious ATV and an island.

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A Russian who protested the war on live TV refused to retract her statement in court

Tuesday, March 15, 2022

The woman burst onto the set of the evening news and told viewers they were being lied to about the war in Ukraine. She was fined for a video in which she called for Russians to protest the war.

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7 Ukrainian refugees are taken in by a Russian immigrant in Germany

Monday, March 14, 2022

Three women and four kids who fled Russia's war on Ukraine have a new temporary home in Germany after the man offered them space in his small apartment — and also took down his Russian flag.

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A Russian pianist's shows are canceled, even though he condemns the war in Ukraine

Saturday, March 12, 2022

Alexander Malofeev, 20, had already arrived in Montreal when a series of his concerts in Canada had been canceled.

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A Ukrainian boy travels 620 miles to safety with a phone number written on his hand

Friday, March 11, 2022

An 11-year-old named Hassan traveled alone into Slovakia with a plastic bag, a passport and a phone number for relatives. His mother had sent him to safety, unable to leave herself.

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A direct Russian strike devastated a maternity hospital in Mariupol, Zelenskyy says

Wednesday, March 09, 2022

"People, children are under the wreckage. Atrocity!" the president tweeted. The port city's deputy mayor also said Russia's military had violated a cease-fire meant to allow civilians to evacuate.

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Olena Zelenska, Ukraine's first lady, says Russia is waging mass murder of civilians

Wednesday, March 09, 2022

Zelenska wrote out what she calls "my testimony from Ukraine" after being flooded with requests for interviews in the two weeks since Russia invaded her country.

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Ukraine's libraries are offering bomb shelters, camouflage classes and, yes, books

Wednesday, March 09, 2022

One bundle of homemade camouflage netting was packaged with a note reading, "Death to enemies." The libraries are also sending Ukrainian books out of the country to refugees who have fled.

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