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Smoke billows over a street near the airport in Lviv after Russian airstrikes hit a jet repair facility.

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Russian missiles hit a fighter jet repair facility in the closest strike yet to Lviv

1:53pm March 18, 2022

by Becky Sullivan

The western Ukrainian city of Lviv has been a bastion of relative normalcy since the Russian invasion began last month. Friday's strike, just over 4 miles from the city center, rattled residents.

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A Russian court announced it has extended the arrest of WNBA star Brittney Griner until May 19, according to the Russian state news agency TASS. Griner was detained at a Moscow-area airport in February after Russian authorities said a search of her luggag

We're not hearing much about jailed WNBA star Brittney Griner. Could that be good?

9:00am March 18, 2022

by Vanessa Romo

Media coverage of Griner's arrest on alleged drug charges in Russia has remained somewhat muted. Some say it's because of her skin color, but others say it's part of a bigger strategy to get her home.

The Tupua Tamasese Meaule Hospital is pictured in Apia, Samoa, on July 10, 2015. Samoa will go into lockdown beginning Saturday as it faces its first outbreak of the coronavirus after a woman who was about to leave the country tested positive.

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Samoa locks down after recording its first community COVID-19 case

5:12am March 18, 2022

by Ashley Westerman

A 29-year-old woman tested positive for the coronavirus on Thursday during routine testing before boarding an international flight.

A young man wears a mask protecting against COVID-19 that reads in Spanish "Fujimori never more," as demonstrators protest against the decision of Peru's Constitutional Court approving the release from prison of former President Alberto Fujimori in Lima,

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Peru court orders ex-President Fujimori freed from prison

1:50am March 18, 2022

by The Associated Press

The decision restores a humanitarian pardon even though authorities gave no indication the former president's release was imminent.

Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a Security Council meeting via teleconference call on March 3.

Putin's warning to anti-war Russians evokes Stalinist purges

8:04pm March 17, 2022

by NPR Staff

The Russian president's references to "cleansing" of "scum and traitors" evoked terrifying memories of the mass arrests of the Stalin era, when repression was justified for "cleansing" Soviet society.

Brittney Griner of the Phoenix Mercury, pictured at a game in 2021. Russian state media reports she will remain in custody until May 19.

A Russian court extended Brittney Griner's detention until May 19, state media says

7:07pm March 17, 2022

by Rachel Treisman

Russian authorities said earlier this month that they detained Griner at a Moscow-area airport for allegedly transporting vape cartridges containing hashish oil in her luggage.

A nurse checks a baby in a hospital basement being used as a bomb shelter in Kyiv, Ukraine. More than 300 health facilities lie within conflict lines or areas that Russia claims to control, according to the World Health Organization.

The WHO says Ukrainian health care is under attack, and it needs more funds to help

6:34pm March 17, 2022

by Rachel Treisman

The World Health Organization has verified 43 attacks on health care in the three weeks since Russia invaded Ukraine, and says hundreds of facilities remain at risk.

Farmers use combines to harvest a wheat field in July 2021 near the village Tbilisskaya, Russia. Russia accounts for 30% of global wheat exports.

The House approves a bill to suspend trade relations with Russia and Belarus

5:33pm March 17, 2022

by Deirdre Walsh

The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill suspending normal trade relations with the countries, another move to squeeze them economically in retaliation for the invasion of Ukraine.

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Mariupol theater rescue continues as Russia's invasion of Ukraine enters its 4th week

5:29pm March 17, 2022

by Tim Mak

Rescue efforts continue at the Mariupol theater that was bombed and American officials said a U.S. citizen has been killed in Ukraine.

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Can Ukraine really win this war?

5:29pm March 17, 2022

As the fighting enters its fourth week in Ukraine, a question looms: could Ukraine actually win? NPR's Juana Summers talks with CEPA's Steven Horrell about the prospects of Russian defeat in Ukraine.

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