🎥 Ukrainian troops have resumed their shelling in the Donetsk People's Republic, where authorities have indicated at least six shells of 152-millimeter caliber were fired.

⚡Bloomberg News moves to temporarily halt its operations in Russia as CNN announces it will no longer be broadcasting in the country

Full US Senate Reportedly Invited to Meet Zelensky Via Zoom on Saturday

The entire US Senate has been invited to meet Volodymyr Zelensky through a virtual conference call on Saturday, NBC News reported, citing sources.

The virtual meeting was arranged by the Ukrainian Embassy, the report said on Friday.

‼️Finnish President Sauli Niinistö has indicated he is ready to discuss Finland's possible accession to NATO

🏈 Judge approves fix to stem race bias in NFL concussion deal

Under a revised plan finalized on Friday, retired Black football players denied payments for dementia in the NFL’s $1 billion concussion settlement can seek to be retested or have their claims rescored to eliminate racial bias in the testing and payout formula.

The revisions could allow many retired players to resubmit their claims, adding $100 million or more to the NFL’s legal tab. The NFL, through the fund, has paid out more than $800 million to date, nearly half for dementia claims. The dementia awards average about $600,000 per player.

Over 3,300 former players or their families have sought awards for brain injuries linked to the sport, more than 2,000 of those for moderate to advanced dementia.

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🚆Amtrak engineer cleared in trial over deadly 2015 crash

An Amtrak engineer was cleared of charges related to a deadly, high-speed derailment that left eight people dead and hundreds injured in Philadelphia in 2015. The jury acquitted 38-year-old engineer Brandon Bostian of causing a catastrophe, involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment after a little more than an hour of deliberations.

Eight people died and more than 200 people were injured when the train rounded a curve at more than twice the speed limit and derailed in north Philadelphia. Amtrak agreed to pay $265 million in civil settlements to victims and their families.

Bostian’s lawyer described him as a lifelong train buff who had a perfect work record who was distracted by people throwing rocks in the area just before the crash.

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🚫 Google suspends all ad sales in Russia as censorship demands grow

Google announced Friday that it has stopped selling ads in Russia amid the country's ongoing military op in Ukraine. The move means that no ads will appear on Google Search or YouTube in Russia.

The ad sales decision comes a day after Russia's media regulator, Roskomnadzor, demanded that Google block ads on YouTube that contained what it called "false political information" about Ukraine.

Earlier this week, Google disabled its Google Maps review feature for Russian businesses after reviews for restaurants and cafés in Russia were flooded with information about Ukraine and protests against the invasion.

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‼️Singapore bans its financial institutions from transactions allowing fundraising by Russian central bank and government

Singapore has introduced sanctions on the Russian Central Bank and some other Russian banks as well as imposed restrictions on the exports to the country over the Russian military operation in Ukraine, the Singaporean Foreign Ministry said on Saturday.

"Financial institutions in Singapore will be prohibited from the following: ... entering into transactions or arrangements, or providing financial services that facilitate fund raising by: the Russian government; the Central Bank of the Russian Federation; any entity owned or controlled by them or acting on their direction or behalf. The prohibitions apply to buying and selling new securities, providing financial services that facilitate new fund raising by, and making or participate in the making of any new loan to the above entities," the ministry said in a statement.

The sanctions targeted four Russian banks: VTB, Vnesheconombank, Promsvyazbank and Bank Rossiya.

"In order to constrain Russia’s capacity to conduct its war in Ukraine and cyber aggression, all permit applications to Russia involving (a) all items on the List of Military Goods under the SGCO; and (b) all category codes under Category 3 - Electronics, Category 4 - Computers and Category 5 – Telecommunications and “Information Security” on the List of Dual-Use Goods under the SGCO will be rejected," the statement added.

❌ Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez call for an investigation into Amazon's absence policy for workers

A group of Democratic lawmakers are calling on the Department of Labor and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to investigate Amazon's absence policy for workers, which the group argues could be illegally penalizing workers.

Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Cory Booker, and Richard Blumenthal, as well as Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Cori Bush sent a letter to the two government bodies Thursday.

In the letter, the lawmakers say they believe Amazon's absence policies could violate the Family and Medical Leave Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act.

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⚡️ Ukrainian troops shelled Donetsk in the morning, 10 122-mm calibre shells were fired, DPR says

❗️ Ukrainian forces fire 5 122mm shells at Donetsk, DPR says

📉 A group of almost 50 UK charities has warned that one in three British households will be unable to heat and power their homes if energy bills soar further against the backdrop of the escalation of the Ukraine crisis.

The End Fuel Poverty Coalition stressed that if the average energy bill soars to £3,000 (about $4,000), it would leave around 8.5 million British households unable to pay their energy bills.

Last week, European energy prices jumped almost 70% shortly after the EU's announcement of new tough anti-Russian sanctions over the beginning of Moscow's special military operation in Ukraine to protect the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics.

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⚡️ Dutch firm Heineken stops exporting beer to Russia, its factories in the country will continue to work, concern says

❗️ Russia declares ceasefire in Ukraine from 07:00 GMT to open humanitarian corridors for civilians

⚡️ Zelensky wanted to use nuclear plant provocation to make West impose no-fly zone - ex-Ukrainian PM

⚡️ Humanitarian corridors and exit routes for civilians from Mariupol and Volnovakha have been agreed upon with the Ukrainian side, Russian MoD says

SpaceX chief Elon Musk said on Saturday that its Starlink satellite broadband service has been told by some governments, not Ukraine, to block Russian news sources.

"We will not do so unless at 'gunpoint', sorry to be a free speech absolutist", he said in a tweet.

Musk also said that SpaceX was reprioritized to cyber defense & overcoming signal jamming, will cause slight delays in Starship & Starlink V2.

⚡️ Russian MoD: Militants from the "Azov" and "Aidar" nationalist battalions fire at troops of the DPR that entered Mariupol from positions in schools, hospitals, maternity hospitals, and kindergartens