American basketball star Brittney Griner asked US President Joe Biden to free her from a Russian prison in a handwritten letter Monday, portions of which were made public by her family.

Two-time Olympic champion Griner, detained in Russia since February on drug smuggling charges, told Biden she fears she might never be freed.

"As I sit here in a

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Russian cosmonauts on board the ISS held a flag symbolizing pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine and congratulated Moscow's forces on capturing the region of Luhansk, the space agency in Moscow said Monday.

Roscosmos posted a photograph of cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveyev and Sergei Korsakov holding the flag of the self-proclaimed

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Bitter Harvest: Russia Gathers Grain in Occupied UkraineBitter Harvest: Russia Gathers Grain in Occupied UkraineBitter Harvest: Russia Gathers Grain in Occupied UkraineBitter Harvest: Russia Gathers Grain in Occupied Ukraine

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Putin Orders Advance to Continue After Russia Takes Ukraine&s LysychanskPutin Orders Advance to Continue After Russia Takes Ukraine&s LysychanskPutin Orders Advance to Continue After Russia Takes Ukraine&s LysychanskPutin Orders Advance to Continue After Russia Takes Ukraine&s Lysychansk
Putin Orders Advance to Continue After Russia Takes Ukraine&s LysychanskPutin Orders Advance to Continue After Russia Takes Ukraine&s Lysychansk

President Vladimir Putin said Monday that Russia will continue pressing forward in eastern Ukraine after Kyiv ordered its forces to retreat from the strategic city of Lysychansk and Russian officials claimed control over the entirety of Ukraine’s Luhansk region.

“Military units ... must carry out their tasks according to previously approved plans,”

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Moscow authorities will rename a stretch of land outside the British Embassy in honor of one of eastern Ukraine's pro-Moscow breakaway republics, the Moscow Mayor’s Office said Monday. 

The area — which runs along Smolenskaya Naberezhnaya between Protochny Pereulok and the exit onto Ulitsa Novy Arbat — will now be known as “Luhansk People’s Republi

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Authorities in Uzbekistan said on Monday 18 people died in clashes in the autonomous Karakalpakstan region when mass protests erupted last week over planned constitutional changes affecting the territory's status.

The unrest, pitting protesters against security forces, represented the most significant challenge yet to the rule of President Shavkat

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