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For Shakhtar Donetsk in the Champions League, representing Ukraine is a duty to the country
HAMBURG, Germany (AP) — Just playing is a small victory for Shakhtar Donetsk, though the Ukrainian champions won't stop there. Team captain Taras Stepanenko told The Associated Press on Monday that Shakhtar's opening Champions League game against Porto on Tuesday is part of his...
Germany presents plans for a German-Polish House to commemorate Polish victims of World War II
BERLIN (AP) — The German government on Tuesday presented plans for a “German-Polish House” in Berlin to serve as a memorial to Polish victims of World War II and detail Germany's brutal occupation of its neighbor between 1939 and 1945. The documentation center is intended to...
Zelenskyy thanks Danes in person for F-16s, though the planes won’t have an immediate war impact
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked Danish lawmakers Monday for helping his country resist Russia’s invasion, a day after Denmark and the Netherlands announced they will provide Kyiv with F-16 warplanes that could be delivered around the end of the year. ...
North Korea's Kim watches cruise missile launches as US, South Korean troops begin annual drills
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un observed the test-firing of strategic cruise missiles, state media reported Monday, as the U.S. and South Korean militaries kicked off major annual drills that the North views as an invasion rehearsal. The North’s report...
An activist tied to Niger's junta says its leaders won't hold talks until the region recognizes them
NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — The only way to avoid conflict in Niger between mutinous soldiers who ousted the president and regional countries threatening an invasion to reinstate him is to recognize the new regime, a rights defender with ties to the junta told The Associated Press. In...
Britain’s MI6 chief says his spies are using AI to disrupt flow of weapons to Russia
PRAGUE (AP) — British spies are already using artificial intelligence to hamper the supply of weapons to Russia, the head of Britain’s MI6 agency said Wednesday, predicting that Western intelligence agencies will increasingly have to focus on tracking the malign use of AI by hostile states. ...
China prepares for naval drills with Russia in sign of continuing support amid Ukraine conflict
China said Wednesday it has dispatched navy ships in preparation for joint exercises with Russia’s sea forces, in a sign of Beijing’s continuing support for Moscow’s invasion of neighboring Ukraine. The move comes despite the growing economic and humanitarian repercussions of...
The invasion of Ukraine spurred NATO to revamp its defense plans against Russian attack
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — U.S. President Joe Biden and his NATO counterparts on Tuesday endorsed the biggest shakeup since the Cold War of the way the military alliance would respond to any attack on its territory by Russia. Inspired in part by Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, the...
Leon Gautier, last member of French D-Day military commando, dies at 100
PARIS (AP) — Leon Gautier, the last surviving member of an elite French unit that joined U.S. and other Allied forces in the D-Day invasion to wrest Normandy from Nazi control, has died. He was 100. The death was announced Monday by Romain Bail, the mayor of Ouistreham, an English...
