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Zelensky meets with Vance, Rubio ahead of Monday phone call with Trump, Putin
World leaders were in Rome to attend Pope Leo XIV's inaugural mass.
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Climate
EXPERT: European dependence on Russian oil, gas allowed Putin to attack Ukraine
Michael Shellenberger, author of Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmist Hurts Us All, wrote an article for Bari Weiss’s Substack explaining how an obsession with “green ideology” opposed to fracking and nuclear made the West vulnerable to Moscow’s laser focus on oil and gas exports.
Politics
Defense Department: 'Vast majority' of $350 million in military aid to Ukraine has been delivered
Roughly $240 million in aid has reached Ukraine, including "the most-needed capabilities, like anti-armor capabilities," Defense Department official says
Politics
State Department urges U.S. embassies to avoid referring to Russian actions as "war crimes"
Some analysts have suggested that the President Biden is trying to avoid further antagonizing Russian President Vladimir Putin
Business
Powell acknowledges Russia sanctions could rev China plan for alternative to dollar-centric banking
U.S. lawmakers fear China is learning all the wrong lessons from Vladimir Putin's recent invasion
Politics
Private companies remove Aeroflot from global ticket-booking systems
The move effectively removed the Russian flag carrier from the "marketplace used by travel agencies, travel websites and corporations around the world to shop, book and service flight reservations"
Culture
Latin American Nobel winners sign letter calling on Putin to end Ukraine war
Former Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, former Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez and famed Peruvian author Mario Vargas-Llosa joined 160 other Nobel Laureates “in condemning these military actions and President Putin’s essential denial of the legitimacy of Ukraine’s existence"
Politics
NATO says no to Ukrainian no-fly zone, citing fears of further escalation
Imposing a so-called NFZ has some GOP support on Capitol Hill
Politics
Europe's largest nuclear power plant reportedly on fire in Ukraine
"Active firefight is going on inside a facility that is already on fire and controls 6 reactors," Sen. Marco Rubio wrote on Twitter
Politics
Captured Russian tanks do not need to be declared as income, Ukraine's tax office announces
Ukraine's anti-corruption agency will now value all seized Russian equipment at less than $8,300
Culture
Ukraine's cam girls urge donations, relief
Kara Xaen, a 26-year-old Ukrainian sex worker who returned to be home with her family, urged those looking to get involved to make donations directly to people on the ground in Ukraine
