Jill Biden to Meet Ukrainian Refugees During Eastern Europe Visit
contact@hellonews.website MIHAIL KOGALNICEANU AIR BASE, Romania — For weeks, first lady Jill Biden has been transfixed by the news coming out of Ukraine, by the bombings and scenes of “parents weeping…
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Evacuation of Civilians From Mariupol Steel Plant Under Way Friday
The evacuation of more civilians from the Azovstal steel plant in the besieged Ukrainian port city of Mariupol has begun. “The next stage of rescuing our people from Azovstal is…
Europe's Farmers Stir Up Biogas to Offset Russian Energy
In lush fields southwest of Paris, farmers are joining Europe’s fight to free itself from Russian gas. They’ll soon turn on a new facility where crops and waste are fermented…
Latest Developments in Ukraine: May 6
For full coverage of the crisis in Ukraine, visit Flashpoint Ukraine. The latest developments in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. All times EDT: 12:02 a.m.: The Washington Post reports…
Ukraine’s PM Details War Costs to VOA as Donors Dig Deep
Ukraine received $6.5 billion in pledges at an international donors’ conference in Warsaw Thursday. VOA Eastern Europe Bureau Chief Myroslava Gongadze discussed the conference and other issues with Ukrainian Prime…
UN Chief: More Evacuations Underway in Mariupol, Azovstal
United Nations — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Thursday that a third evacuation operation is underway to assist civilians in Ukraine’s southern city of Mariupol and the Azovstal steel plant.…
Russia Braces for Effects of Energy Export Losses
The international sanctions imposed on Russia for the invasion of Ukraine have opened a new front in the Ukraine conflict, an economic one. Moscow is now trying to curb inflation…
Putin Apologizes to Israel for Lavrov's Anti-Semitic Remarks
Russian President Vladimir Putin reportedly apologized to Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett for antisemitic comments made earlier this week by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Lavrov reportedly said “the biggest…
Collective Bargaining Eases COVID-19 Impact
Geneva — An International Labor Organization survey in 80 countries finds collective bargaining agreements and practices are critical to improving working conditions, closing the gender wage gap, and in reducing…
Reporter’s Notebook: Memories of Talking to Belarus' Stanislav Shushkevich
Former Belarusian leader Stanislav Shushkevich died this week at the age of 87. He took a part of the Soviet Union’s history with him. Shrewd and wise, he was the…
Russia Expels 7 Danish Embassy Staff in Tit-For-Tat Move
Russia has announced the expulsion of seven people from the Danish Embassy in Moscow in response to a similar move announced by Copenhagen four weeks earlier. “They must leave the…
Queen to Miss Traditional Royal Garden Party Season
london — Queen Elizabeth II will miss the traditional royal garden party season, where she would normally meet with hundreds of people on the grounds of her residences in London…
Belarusian Diaspora Does What It Can to Help Ukraine
After the regime’s crackdown on protesters in Belarus following the 2020 presidential elections, some 200,000-300,000 people fled Belarus ending up as refugees in Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine, and a number of…
Media Group: At Least 23 Journalists Killed in Ukraine War
Since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine, at least 23 journalists have been killed in the country, according to a journalists’ union. And at least seven of those deaths took…
Japan PM: Tokyo to Use Nuclear to Cut Dependence on Russian Energy
London — Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Thursday that it would use nuclear reactors to help reduce its own and other countries’ dependence on Russian energy. Japan has…