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Volunteers paint flowers of hope in war-torn Ukraine
KYIV — Images of sunflowers have started appearing on burned-out cars and the walls of bombed buildi...
August 13, 2022
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Techno collective dances to a new beat in northern Ukraine
KYIV — A group of young Ukrainians formed by techno music promoters has been spending their weekends...
August 11, 2022
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11-year-old checkers champ raises money for Ukraine army
KYIV — With each double jump and every piece that gets kinged, 11-year-old Valeria Yezhova raises mo...
August 6, 2022
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Zelenskyy delivers online lecture at Toyo University, calls for support of peace
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on students to support efforts for peace during an on...
July 5, 2022
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Russia strikes Kyiv as troops consolidate gains in the east
KYIV (AP) — Russia attacked the Ukrainian capital in the early hours of Sunday morning, striking at ...
June 26, 2022
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2 killed in mass shooting in Norway; more than a dozen hurt
OSLO (AP) — Two people were killed and more than a dozen injured early Saturday in a mass shooting i...
June 25, 2022
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Honoring the fallen
KYIV — Ukrainian flags planted in Kyiv’s Independence Square honor victims of the war, four months a...
June 24, 2022
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Railcars used as shelters for displaced people in Ukraine
IRPIN, Ukraine — Some Ukrainian Railways’ carriages were repurposed earlier this month as shelters ...
June 19, 2022
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Ukrainian widower takes twin toddlers west after losing wife in Russian shelling
VERBKA, Ukraine — A Ukrainian man has been unable to tell his twin daughters, who turn 3 on June 18,...
June 17, 2022
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Rare albino Galapagos giant tortoise born in Swiss zoo
GENEVA (AFP-Jiji) — Visitors to a Swiss zoo caught a glimpse on June 3 of a rare albino Galapagos gi...
June 15, 2022
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Spain searches for wounded bear, cub after brutal attack by male
MADRID (AFP-Jiji) — Spanish authorities are trying to find a brown bear and her cub, which were sepa...
June 15, 2022
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Lithuania seeks Japan’s cooperation in convoy to escort Ukrainian grain
The Lithuanian foreign affairs minister has asked for Japan’s cooperation with a proposed convoy of ...
June 7, 2022
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Bereaved wife recounts horrors of Ukraine war
BUCHA, Ukraine — The traces of blackened pools of blood in a vacant lot in Bucha, Ukraine, are a gri...
June 6, 2022
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Ukrainian girl rescued from Russian-held hospital by grandfather
CHERNIVTSI, Ukraine — The grandfather of a 12-year-old girl orphaned by the war in Ukraine made a ti...
June 2, 2022
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Barcelona recruits sheep, goats to fight wildfires
BARCELONA (AFP-Jiji) — It’s a rustic scene — sheep and goats graze placidly while a shepherd keeps w...
June 1, 2022
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Woman in Bucha, Ukraine, desperately searches for missing husband
BUCHA, Ukraine — Tuesday marked three months since Russia started its invasion of Ukraine. In the Ky...
May 25, 2022
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Russian war crimes in Ukraine on display at Davos exhibition
DAVOS, Switzerland — An exhibition detailing Russian atrocities in Ukraine is being held on the side...
May 24, 2022
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Ukrainian artists serve on cultural front at reopened Lviv theater
LVIV, Ukraine — Performers have returned to the stage at the Lviv National Opera, which is presentin...
May 19, 2022
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Paris plans green makeover of Champs-Elysees for Games
PARIS (AFP-Jiji) — Paris will give the famed Champs-Elysees a makeover ahead of the 2024 Olympic Gam...
May 18, 2022
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Experts sound alarm over baby tongue surgery
PARIS (AFP-Jiji) — Lea had no problems breastfeeding her newborn son when she took him to see an ost...
May 18, 2022
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Destruction, grief continue to envelop Bucha
BUCHA, Ukraine — “If there is a hell, this is it,” said a man on Thursday as he sorted through rubbl...
May 17, 2022
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Charred car cemetery
A child rides his toy car in front of a mountain of abandoned cars in Irpin, near Kyiv. Most of the ...
May 14, 2022
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Can human urine help feed the world?
PARIS (AFP-Jiji) — “Go pee on the rhubarb!” Engineer Fabien Esculier has never forgotten his grand...
May 11, 2022
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17-year-old girl from Mariupol narrowly avoids brutal interrogation
LVIV, Ukraine — Mariya Vdovichenko narrowly avoided a brutal interrogation by the Russian military a...
May 6, 2022
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Ukraine women take up arms to protect homeland
Hiroto Sekiguchi / The Yomiuri ShimbunA woman learns how to handle a rifle from a volunteer instruct...
April 24, 2022
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Tokyo 2020 judoka in Kyiv speaks about horrors of Russian invasion
Kyiv city council member Georgii Zantaraia spoke to The Yomiuri Shimbun via social media about the h...
April 18, 2022
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Ukrainian soldier killed at start of Russian invasion finally returns home
LVIV, Ukraine — As Russia continues its invasion of Ukraine, casualties among Ukrainian soldiers inc...
April 17, 2022
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Dog in Ukraine waiting for a month for slain owner
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — A woman was raped and killed in Makariv in the northern Ukraine province of Kyi...
April 14, 2022
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More than 4 million have fled from Ukraine
MEDYKA, Poland — The number of people who have fled war-torn Ukraine has exceeded 4 million, the Uni...
March 31, 2022
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Zelenskyy stresses Russian threat to nuclear facilities in Diet speech
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy emphasized in his online address to the Diet on Wednesday t...
March 24, 2022
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