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First Lady Jill Biden has once again inflamed anti-LGBTQ+ right wingnuts.This week, Dr. Biden, along with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, hosted the 17th annual International Women of Courage Awards.The State Department has handed out awards to over 180 women from more than 80 countries since 2007.

Volodymyr Zelenskiy has denied Russian claims that Ukraine was involved in a drone attack on the Kremlin that was intended to kill the Russian president, Vladimir Putin.The Ukrainian president said on Wednesday: We don't attack Putin, or Moscow, we fight on our territory and defend our towns and cities.

Lawyers for Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal correspondent arrested on espionage charges in Russia, have filed an appeal against the decision to hold him in pre-trial detention, a spokesperson for a Moscow district court has said.Gershkovich was arrested last week in the city of Ekaterinburg and flown to Moscow, where a court ruled he should be held in detention until at least 29 May.

They later appeared in Russian media clips, Huynh purporting to be against war and Drueke describing how he surrendered without firing a shot.Huynh said the men's captors made them say things to Russian media that were insincere.Two military veterans from Alabama who volunteered to defend Ukraine from Russian invaders but were captured are back home, according to a statement provided to the Guardian on Sunday.From New York they flew to Birmingham, arriving shortly after noon on Saturday, the Drueke family statement said.

The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, said China is watching very carefully to see how Washington and the world respond to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.Speaking at the end of president Xi Jinping's visit to Moscow, Blinken said that if Russia was allowed to attack Ukraine with impunity, it would open a Pandora's box for would-be aggressors and lead to a world of conflict.

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy claimed his forces repelled a fierce offensive by Russian troops in the eastern Donetsk region.Today they stopped the fierce offensive actions of the enemy, Zelenskiy said in his Sunday night address.The Russian attack was repelled.The fiercest fighting in Donetsk region has been around the towns of Bakhmut and Avdiivka.

Moscow said Wednesday it would try to retrieve the wreckage of a US military drone that crashed over the Black Sea, in a confrontation Washington blamed on two Russian fighter jets.US officials said the debris could be in such deep water that recovery is impossible, and would have no real intelligence value.

Volodymyr Zelenskiy addressed the European parliament on Thursday morning, saying Ukraine will join the European Union and thanking the bloc's members for their support during Russia's invasion.The French president, Emmanuel Macron, said Paris would continue the efforts to deliver arms to Kyiv, adding that France was determined to help Ukraine towards victory, peace and Europe.

Comments by Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, were met with laughter at an international conference in India, when he said that the Ukraine war had been launched against his home country.Speaking at the Raisina Dialogue, a politics and economics event in Delhi, Lavrov also claimed that Russia was trying to stop the war.

The United Nations, Nato, European Union and US have all urged Russia to reverse its decision to pull out of a deal that allowed Ukrainian grain exports via the Black Sea, amid fears of a global food crisis.Moscow announced it was suspending the UN-brokered arrangement in response to a dramatic attack in the early hours of Saturday by Ukrainian airborne and underwater drones on its naval base of Sevastopol in Crimea.

Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature The UN secretary general has urged Russia and Ukraine to renew the deal that has seen more than 8m tonnes of grain exported from Ukraine and brought down global food prices.Antonio Guterres also called for other countries, mainly in the west, to expedite the removal of obstacles blocking Russian grain and fertiliser exports, Agence France-Presse reported.

Russia is deploying the most experienced units of the mercenary Wagner group and its army in an attempt to seize the besieged eastern city of Bakhmut, the Ukrainian military has said.The commander of Ukraine's ground forces, Oleksandr Syrskyi, was pictured visiting the frontline city on Friday for briefings with local commanders on how to boost defence capacity.

ESTAMBUL Los enormes buques que transportan trigo y otros cereales ucranianos estan retenidos a lo largo del Bosforo, aqui en Estambul, a la espera de ser inspeccionados antes de navegar a puertos de todo el mundo.El numero de buques que transitan por este estrecho, que conecta los puertos del mar Negro con aguas mas amplias, cayo en picada cuando Rusia invadio Ucrania hace 10 meses e impuso un bloqueo naval.

After a flurry of publicity and controversy at its launch following secret negotiations, relatively little has been heard about the Aukus defence treaty between the UK, US and Australia  which is supposed to transform the geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific region and beyond.China attacked the agreement under which the US and Britain is due to supply nuclear powered submarines to Australia as a dangerous provocation.

Russia's defence minister, Sergei Shoigu, has said the partial mobilisation of reservists announced in September has been completed and no further measures are planned.Speaking at a meeting with Vladimir Putin broadcast on state television, Shoigu said 82,000 mobilised recruits were in the conflict zone and a further 218,000 in training in barracks.