Hong Kong police make threatening phone call to prodemocracy supporter living in Canada /via The Globe and Mail theglobeandmail.com/politics/artic…

New populist parties exploit economic stagnation in South Africa /reports Geoffrey York via The Globe and Mail theglobeandmail.com/world/article-…

A rare address in English by President Zelensky from Kharkiv. A six minute plea to the world ahead of a planned peace summit next month. A format that plays to his strengths.

Freeland optimistic G7 will reach deal on using revenues from frozen Russian assets /via The Globe and Mail theglobeandmail.com/politics/artic…

U.S. Congress asks for intelligence briefing on fired Winnipeg scientists theglobeandmail.com/politics/artic…

“I just have one desire to find the truth, to get the truth, because if he was killed I would like to know.” The agonizing search for Ukraine’s missing soldiers /via The Globe and Mail theglobeandmail.com/world/article-… #Ukraine

Viktoriia Burzhynska was pregnant when her husband joined the Ukrainian army. Within a week, he disappeared. She spoke to us about the agonizing search, and raising their child without him. Story with Kateryna Hatsenko and photos by Olga Ivashchenko

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Statement of the #Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding tonight's border incident on the Estonian-Russian border on the Narva River

Viktoriia Burzhynska was pregnant when her husband joined the Ukrainian army. Within a week, he disappeared. She spoke to us about the agonizing search, and raising their child without him. Story with Kateryna Hatsenko and photos by Olga Ivashchenko

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Russia today attacked the printing house of my Ukrainian publisher Видавництво Vivat in Kharkiv. Dead and injured colleagues. My condolences. More proof that the Kremlin wants to wipe out #Ukrainian culture and literature. A fascist project

Lithuania arms itself for the Russian threat by uniting church, state and society in civil-defence campaign /via The Globe and Mail theglobeandmail.com/world/article-…

Tucker Carlson launches show on Russian state TV

Attn Jordan Klepper

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🔴🇺🇦 Up to 100 people may be held captive by Russians in Vovchansk, says Serhiy Bolvinov, head of Investigations of Kharkiv region police to SUSPILNE NEWS 📰.
'We learned from witnesses that 🇷🇺 captured all remaining civilians & forbid them to leave under the threat of being shot'.

Slovak prime minister Robert Fico has been shot outside a government meeting.

Fico was greeting crowds outside a building in the central town of Handlova when shots rang out.

He has been taken to hospital. There is no news of his condition.

Zelensky postpones all foreign travel as Russian infantry enters Ukrainian border town /via The Globe and Mail theglobeandmail.com/world/article-…

Earlier this month, the Kyiv Independent spent 48 hours in Kharkiv to see how its people manage to work, relax, and survive in Ukraine's most-bombed major city. kyivindependent.com/48-hours-in-kh…

Ukraine to allow some prisoners to join the military in effort to boost ranks /via The Globe and Mail theglobeandmail.com/world/article-…

Canadian writer Alice Munro, whose short stories have been beloved for the past six decades, has died at 92. '
Her earthy humour and ability to extend sympathy to every character made her a household name, and made her birthplace of Wingham, Ontario, a place of literary