Update (1700ET): The president is an hour late… and the delay just happens to coincide with the timing of breaking news from Ukraine of gas pipeline explosion in Luhansk? *  *  * After an avalanche of escalating headlines – from exploding cars to mass graves and from shelling kindergartens to mass evacuations – President Biden stands ready to…

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(Update 5:30pm ET): Shortly after images of the gas pipeline explosion was reaching social media, President Biden appeared behind the lectern at The White House (an hour late) to tell the world that he’s “convinced” that Russian President Vladimir Putin has decided to launch a further invasion in Ukraine, including an assault on its capital, Kyiv.…

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Russia’s military on Saturday announced it had chased a US submarine from Russian waters in the far east, near the Pacific Kuril islands. Likely it will be contested by the Pentagon side that the submarine was ever in “Russian waters”, however, as the region is also claimed by Japan. According to Reuters, “The Russian military said on Saturday it…

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Another round of Russia-US negotiations on the Ukraine crisis, on Saturday, saw Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warn his American counterpart, Antony Blinken against a “propaganda campaign” over an alleged plan by Moscow to attack Ukraine. Both foreign and defense ministers of the two countries held phone conversations over “security issues of mutual interest,” ahead of crucial…

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Joe Biden’s response to questions over how he plans to stop the Nord Stream 2 pipeline in Europe shows he has little influence in de-escalating tensions in Ukraine. One America’s Chief White House Correspondent Chanel Rion has more from Washington. Read More

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NATO will boost its number of troops on high alert by more than sevenfold to over 300,000, the alliance’s secretary-general says, as it prepares to adopt a new stance describing Moscow as a direct threat. Russia’s February invasion of Ukraine has sparked a major geopolitical shift in the West, prompting once neutral countries Finland and Sweden to…

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