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Over half of all abortions in the United States are now reportedly done using pills, as abortion became the leading cause of death around the world last year. “In 2020, pills accounted for 54% of all U.S. abortions, up from roughly 44% in 2019,” the Associated Press (AP) reported Thursday, citing data from the Guttmacher…Continue Reading

Friday, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) called on President Joe Biden and NATO to “quit pussyfooting around” when it comes to dealing with Russia’s aggression toward Ukraine. Cotton told Fox News Channel’s “The Faulkner Focus” that the recently announced sanctions “were wholly inadequate.” He called them “not even a half measure” to stop Russian President Vladimir…Continue Reading

Former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has taken up arms against the Russian army in his nation’s capital, saying resistance fighters are prepared to hold out “forever.”The 56-year-old, who led Ukraine from 2014 to 2019, held up a Kalashnikov rifle during an interview with CNN’s John Berman on Friday as an example of the weaponry available…Continue Reading

Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine, which reached the outskirts of the capital city Kyiv on Friday, has raised alarm in neighboring European countries that a humanitarian crisis is brewing on their doorstep.Speaking at the U.N. Headquarters in New York on Wednesday, U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield warned that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a country of 44…Continue Reading

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis went to the Russian Embassy on Friday to “express his concern about the war,” an extraordinary, hands-on papal gesture that came on the same day the Vatican announced he was canceling other upcoming events because of an “acute” flareup of knee pain.Usually popes receive ambassadors and heads of state in…Continue Reading

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations announced Thursday it is immediately allocating $20 million to scale up U.N. humanitarian operations in Ukraine following Russia’s invasion.Secretary-General Antonio Guterres made the announcement saying the U.N. and its humanitarian partners “are committed to staying and delivering, to support people in Ukraine in their time of need ……Continue Reading

An entire garrison of 13 Ukrainian border guards was killed in the first day of fighting on the nation’s Snake Island after the soldiers refused to surrender to invading Russian forces, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.A group of Ukrainian border guards were stationed on Snake Island, in the Black Sea south of Odessa, when a…Continue Reading

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