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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
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
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
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
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
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
Honoring the fallen

KYIV — Ukrainian flags planted in Kyiv’s Independence Square honor victims of the war, four months a...

June 24, 2022
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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