🇺🇸WATCH: Gen Z For Choice activists rallied in front of the Supreme Court on Thursday in protest of the impending reversal of Roe v. Wade

❗️🇷🇺🇺🇸The Russian embassy in Washington on Friday urged the United States to destroy its stockpiles of chemical weapons

The mission urged the American society to wonder why Washington is delaying the elimination of its stockpiles of chemical weapons, unlike other countries.

🚨🚨Chicago Police are investigating the suspicious death of a 43-year-old Geneva woman who was found with a fatal gunshot wound outside her home Wednesday. At about 8:02 p.m., a relative living in the Chicago area called the police and reported the Geneva woman as possibly missing since 5 a.m. Tuesday.

Geneva and St. Charles police conducted a well-being check at a home in the 700 block of McKinley Avenue. When officers arrived, they met with a male family member who was unable to answer questions or provide information on the missing woman.

Officers then checked the home's property and found the woman, who was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. No charges have been filed in this case.

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🖼The Princeton University Art Museum has purchased a unique 1861 artwork called “A Young Teacher” by prominent English-Jewish artist Rebecca Solomon, the Art Newspaper reports.

The painting, sold by Sotheby’s for £302,400, shows a child reading with a maid and an older sister, who is the teacher from the artwork’s noscript, as she is teaching the servant how to read.

Photo credit: Sotheby’s
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😬 In his latest gaffe, United States President Joe Biden accidentally confused Mexico's first lady with the nation's president.

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⚡️ 📹 A shocked resident of Donbass tells how a local woman went out to buy bread and was killed by Ukrainian military shelling.

The woman had only a few metres to walk to her doorstep when shrapnel from a Ukrainian shell that landed close by hit her in her courtyard.

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⚡️ 📹 A resident of the village of Novotroitskoye in Donetsk region describes how paramilitary thugs from the Aidar battalion behaved toward civilians, evicting them from their homes and stealing their property.

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⚡️ 📹 Another batch of humanitarian aid from the international volunteer group "Moscow-Donbass" was delivered to Kirovsk.

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⚡️ MoD: Russian high-precision missiles eliminate Ukrainian ammunition depot in city of Kramatorsk

❗️ The Russian MoD’s latest statements on the Ukraine crisis:

▪️ The Russian Armed Forces have destroyed a large Ukrainian ammunition depot in Kramatorsk using high-precision air-based missiles.

▪️ A Ukrainian Armed Forces Tochka-U tactical missile system has been destroyed near Novotavricheskoe, Zaporozhye Region.

▪️ Russian operational-tactical and army aviation have hit 24 military assets of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

▪️ Russian missile troops have destroyed a Ukrainian S-300 anti-aircraft missile launcher near Nikiforovka in the DPR and five AFU troop concentration and military equipment targets.

▪️ Artillery units have hit 6 command posts, 3 ammunition depots, 187 strongpoints, troop concentration and military equipment targets, as well as 26 Ukrainian artillery batteries.

▪️ Russian air defence units have shot down a Ukrainian Air Force Su-25 and a MiG-29 near Preobrazhennoe in the LPR and also intercepted four Tochka-U ballistic missiles.

▪️ Some 151 aircraft and 112 helicopters, 742 unmanned aerial vehicles, 290 anti-aircraft missile systems, 2,854 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 329 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,338 field artillery and mortars, as well as 2,683 units of special military vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been destroyed since the beginning of the operation.

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❗️ Explosion rocked ship in Istanbul, preliminary data suggests 5 people were injured - reports

Latest updates on the Russian military operation in Ukraine

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⚡️🎥 "Everyone is in need now": Russia's military delivered 40 tonnes of humanitarian aid to elevate the plight of the residents of the Kharkov region

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⚡️ 📹 A Mariupol resident tells how the Chechens helped them compared with the Ukrainian military, who shelled their homes.

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⚡️ 📹 A woman evacuated from Azovstal said that soldiers of the Ukrainian armed forces and the Azov paramilitaries promised to shoot dead anyone who decided to leave the industrial zone.

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🕔 EU needs 10-15 years to replace Russian gas with African hydrocarbons, energy experts say

Having introduced sweeping sanctions against Russian energy suppliers, the European Union (EU) is trying to curry favour with African hydrocarbon producers to reduce its dependence on Moscow by almost two-thirds this year, Bloomberg reports. The EU sees Western and Northern African states as potential alternative gas suppliers.

"The European Union (EU) is clutching at straws," says Dr Mamdouh G. Salameh, an international oil economist and visiting professor of energy economics at the ESCP Europe Business School in London. "[The bloc's] efforts to diversify its gas needs away from Russia is a painstaking job that will take years to accomplish if ever."

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⚡️ 📹 A bright example of another lynching in Ukraine: a man is tied to a pole with sign on his back saying "marauder".

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⚡️ 📹 Ukrainian Nazis declare on camera that they will not take prisoners when dealing with Russian soldiers, underscoring that the ultimate aim of Nazis is the elimination of the Russian nation in general.

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⚡️🎥 "I was almost killed": A resident of the Yelenovka settlement near Donetsk reveals how Ukrainian Nazi battalions treated Donbas residents back in 2014.

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Head of Zelenskyy's office Andrey Yermak invites actress Angelina Jolie to visit Ukraine again.

Following the US actress's first visit to Ukraine's Lvov, the head of the Ukrainian presidential office held a video conversation with her, according to a press release. The statement also noted that Yermak and Jolie discussed relief efforts for Ukrainian children.

🗣 "I am deeply committed to helping them in every way possible, especially the children. I will do my best for children in your country," Jolie was quoted as saying by the presidential office.

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