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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, center, offers prayers at a church in Bucha, a town outside Kyiv that became a symbol of Russian atrocities against civilians, in Ukraine, Tuesday, March 21, 2023.(Iori Sagisawa/Kyodo News via AP)

Japan’s PM offers Ukraine support as China’s Xi backs Russia

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, center, offers prayers at a church in Bucha, a town outside Kyiv that became a symbol of Russian atrocities against civilians, in Ukraine, Tuesday, March 21, 2023.(Iori Sagisawa/Kyodo News via AP)

March 21, 2023, 8:16am Latest News

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida made a surprise visit Tuesday to Kyiv, stealing some of the global attention from Asian rival President Xi Jinping of China, who is in Moscow to show support for Russia against the West over the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine. Read story

London police chief ‘humbled’ by withering report on force

March 21, 2023, 8:15am Nation & World

London’s police force has lost the confidence of the people it serves because it is riven with institutional racism, misogyny and homophobia and doesn’t do enough to weed out bad officers, according to a withering report commissioned after a young woman was raped and killed by a serving officer. Read story

Boris Johnson says ‘partygate’ untruths were honest mistake

March 21, 2023, 8:13am Nation & World

Former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson acknowledged Tuesday that he misled Parliament about rule-breaking government parties during the coronavirus pandemic — but insisted he never intentionally lied. Read story

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen testifies before the Senate Finance Committee about President Joe Biden's proposed budget request for the fiscal year 2024, Thursday, March 16, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Yellen says bank situation stabilizing, different from 2008

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen testifies before the Senate Finance Committee about President Joe Biden's proposed budget request for the fiscal year 2024, Thursday, March 16, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

March 21, 2023, 8:10am Business

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen projected calm on Tuesday after recent regional bank collapses but told a gathering of bankers that additional rescue arrangements “could be warranted” if any new failures at smaller institutions jeopardize financial stability. Read story

Millions in extra funding pledged for ICC work in Ukraine

March 21, 2023, 8:10am Nation & World

An international conference in London raised 4 million pounds ($4.9 million) to support the International Criminal Court in its investigations into alleged war crimes in Ukraine and its work to hold Russia to account, officials said Monday. Read story

Russian matryoshka dolls with portraits of the Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin are displayed among others for sale at a souvenir shop in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, March 21, 2023. Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in neighbouring Russia for a three-day trip for the talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Russia’s reliance on China rises amid Ukraine sanctions

Russian matryoshka dolls with portraits of the Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin are displayed among others for sale at a souvenir shop in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, March 21, 2023. Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in neighbouring Russia for a three-day trip for the talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

March 21, 2023, 8:09am Nation & World

Like a salesman buttering up his best customer, President Vladimir Putin gushed about China’s economic success as he welcomed Chinese leader Xi Jinping to the Kremlin. Read story

1st US Army garrison on NATO’s east flank formed in Poland

March 21, 2023, 8:05am Nation & World

Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak and U.S. officials attended a ceremony Tuesday to formally upgrade the U.S. military presence in NATO member Poland amid the war in neighboring Ukraine. Read story

Israel repeals 2005 act on West Bank settlement pullout

March 21, 2023, 8:04am Nation & World

Israeli lawmakers on Tuesday repealed a 2005 act that saw four Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank dismantled at the same time as Israeli forces withdrew from the Gaza Strip. The development could pave the way for an official return to the abandoned West Bank areas in another setback… Read story

The Weston Dam holds back the Kennebec River on Sept. 14, 2021, in Skowhegan, Maine. The federal government ruled Monday that the last wild Atlantic salmon in the country can coexist with dams on a Maine river, dealing a blow to environmentalists who have long sought to remove them.

Last wild Atlantic salmon can survive Maine dams, feds say

The Weston Dam holds back the Kennebec River on Sept. 14, 2021, in Skowhegan, Maine. The federal government ruled Monday that the last wild Atlantic salmon in the country can coexist with dams on a Maine river, dealing a blow to environmentalists who have long sought to remove them.

March 20, 2023, 5:41pm Nation & World

The federal government ruled Monday that the last wild Atlantic salmon in the country can coexist with hydroelectric dams on a Maine river, dealing a blow to environmentalists who have long sought to remove the dams. Read story

FILE - A Mexican Red Cross ambulance transports two Americans found alive after their abduction in Mexico through Veterans International Bridge at Los Tomates in Brownsville, Texas, on March 7, 2023. A man who admitted to purchasing firearms that he knew would be going from the U.S. to a Mexican drug cartel has been arrested in Texas after the discovery that one of the weapons was linked to the deadly kidnapping of four Americans in the border city of Matamoros, according federal court records, Saturday, March 18.

Gun used in kidnapping of Americans in Mexico came from U.S.

FILE - A Mexican Red Cross ambulance transports two Americans found alive after their abduction in Mexico through Veterans International Bridge at Los Tomates in Brownsville, Texas, on March 7, 2023. A man who admitted to purchasing firearms that he knew would be going from the U.S. to a Mexican drug cartel has been arrested in Texas after the discovery that one of the weapons was linked to the deadly kidnapping of four Americans in the border city of Matamoros, according federal court records, Saturday, March 18.

March 20, 2023, 5:24pm Nation & World

A man who admitted to purchasing firearms that he knew would be going from the U.S. to a Mexican drug cartel has been arrested in Texas after the discovery that one of the weapons was linked to the deadly kidnapping of four Americans, according federal court records. Read story