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LONDON  – Western officials on Friday named seven Russian generals they said had so far been killed, and another who had been sacked, during the war in Ukraine. The latest to die, Lieutenant General Yakov Rezanstev, was a commander of Russia s 49th Combined Arms Army in its southern military district, an official disclosed. Meanwhile, Russian Army Commander General Vlaislav Yershov, of the 6th Combined Arms Army, was identified as the general sacked earlier this week by the Kremlin. It has been reported his abrupt dismissal was due to the heavy…

RZESZOW – US President Joe Biden on Friday compared Russia s invasion of Ukraine to China s crushing of protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989, speaking during a visit to Poland near the border with Ukraine. Biden also referred to Russian President Vladimir Putin as “a man who, quite frankly, I think is a war criminal”, adding: “And I think we ll meet the legal definition of that as well.” Biden spoke at meetings with US soldiers stationed in Poland close to the border and with aid workers helping to deal…

KYIV  – Russia signaled Friday it may dial back its war aims to focus on eastern Ukraine after failing to break the nation s resistance in a month of fighting and attacks on civilians, including up to 300 feared killed in the bombing of a theatre. The possible shift came as President Joe Biden visited elite US troops serving with NATO just across the border in Poland and France s Emmanuel Macron proposed an internationally backed evacuation of civilians trapped in the bombarded city of Mariupol. Russian President Vladimir Putin had…

–Website launched highlighting the vision and featured interviews with prominent performers and artists– Englewood (New Jersey): Imagine a public high school for the arts serving all of Bergen County. The Advisors & Supporters, a community based, grassroots group in Englewood, New Jersey, is exploring the possibility of developing a public high school for the arts in the 115-year-old Russell C. Major Liberty School, an architecturally distinguished building located on the historic Five Corners site in the city’s downtown district. The group launched a website, LibertySchoolfortheArts.org, to imagine this vision featuring…

MOSCOW – Russia accused the West on Monday of seeking to push it into an “artificial default” through unprecedented sanctions over Ukraine, but vowed to meet its debt payments. Russia is due to make an interest payment on its external debt later this week and Moscow warned it will be doing so in rubles if sanctions prevent it from using the currency of issue. “The freezing of foreign currency accounts of the Bank of Russia and of the Russian government can be regarded as the desire of a number of…

Thiruvananthapuram, March 09, 2022: Rolling out measures aimed at effective collection and recycling of scrap, the Kerala Scrap Merchants Association (KSMA) has unveiled a new mobile application christened Aakri Kada. The app is an initial step in KSMA’s efforts to bring together the KSMA members and the general public who find it difficult to dispose of scrap that piles up in their homes and surroundings. P Rajeeve, Minister for Industries, Government of Kerala, launched the Aakri Kada app and website on Wednesday at a function held at the Mascot Hotel…

(Bergen County, New Jersey; March 8, 2022) — The Community Chest of Eastern Bergen County’s Racial Justice Liberty Project announces a call for high school students, residing in or attending school in Bergen County, to submit a one to two minute video about the theme “A Gallery of Stories of Your Racial Discovery”. Students are invited to share their personal reflections about how they came to understand their own racial, ethnic, or cultural identity and how it currently affects them. The finished piece will reflect a range of perspectives on…