Dolphins are dying in droves in the Black Sea, and Ukraine says it's evidence that Russia is committing a new kind of war crime

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A stranded dolphin on the Black Sea.
A stranded dolphin on the Black Sea.

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Russian commanders now punish misbehaving troops by sticking them in dirt holes covered with metal grilles called 'zindans:' UK intelligence

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Conscripts stand at a Russian military conscription office in Grozny, Chechnya on November 17, 2014.

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A professor was murdered after a Facebook post branded him a traitor. Was Facebook complicit in his death?

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Slain professor Meareg Amare is shown in a FB blue cross hairs. The facebook sits nearby and scenes from the Bahir Dar area are shown.

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Russia's economy is becoming more 'primitive' and war could push it to the same fate as the Soviet Union, says economist targeted by Moscow

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Russian President Vladimir Putin rides a suburban train in Moscow, Russia, in November 2019.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy blasts Russia's chairmanship of the UN Security Council as 'absurd' and says it shows 'the complete bankruptcy of such institutions'

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Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

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The war in Ukraine has created more refugees than the world has seen since WWII, according to a new UN report

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Ukraine flag over rubble.
Ukraine flag over rubble.

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International Criminal Court cements Putin's pariah status with arrest warrant for alleged war crimes — illegally snatching kids from Ukraine

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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu at a ceremony for Russia's Navy Day in St. Petersburg on July 30, 2017.

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Russia convicted a soldier who admitted killing a civilian in Ukraine — not for killing anyone but for spreading illegal 'fake news'

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A Ukrainian soldier with his back to the camera, standing on an abandoned Russian tank, behind a mound of mud and rubble, in the village of Andriivka, west of Kyiv, on April 5, 2022.
A Ukrainian serviceman walks on an abandoned Russian army tank in Andriivka, Ukraine, April 5, 2022.

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The body collectors recovering Ukraine's war dead

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Men stand in ditches and shovel out dirt.
Black Tulip exhumes bodies from a mass grave in Yampil, Ukraine, near Sloviansk.

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