Russia's new offensive in Ukraine has likely fizzled out after only a month, Western intel says

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Ukrainian medic in Bakhmut trench
A Ukrainian medic runs through a partially dug trench on the frontline outside Bakhmut on March 5, 2023.

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Ukraine's troops fight off 'massive' Russian attacks in Bakhmut with World War I-era machine guns and sniper traps

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Ukrainian troops next to a Maxim machine gun.
A Maxim machine gun in position near Kharkiv, Ukraine.

Mykhaylo Palinchak

Chinese leader Xi Jinping is heading to Russia to meet Vladimir Putin

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Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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An oil spill off the Philippine coast has coated some of the world's most beautiful beaches in sludge: 'Our white sand is now black'

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Coast guard members clean up an oil slick on March 8 in Pola, Oriental Mindoro.
Coast guard members clean up an oil slick on March 8 in Pola, Oriental Mindoro.

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Kim Jong Un's daughter was a mystery for years, but now she's showing up at North Korea's biggest missile tests

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This photo provided on Nov. 19, 2022, by the North Korean government shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, right, and his daughter at the site of a missile launch at Pyongyang International Airport in Pyongyang, North Korea, Friday, Nov. 18, 2022.

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Russia is so cut off from the international financial system that the Kremlin thinks Western sanctions have 'insured' the country against the banking crisis

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Vladimir Putin smiles.
Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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8 million Chinese youths sat for a test in the style of an 'imperial examination' — all for a job that pays about $7,000 a year

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A woman in a busy subway station.

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A Spanish firm wants to kill one million octopuses a year using 'ice slurry' baths at first-ever factory farm

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An octopus in the Mediterranean Sea.

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Russian jet's collision with a US drone shows Russia may have a fighter pilot 'problem,' former US aviators say

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'Russian Knights' air force group member flies over Monino airfield on his jet SU-27 during an aerial show to commemorate the 95th anniversary of Russian Air Forces outside Moscow, August 11, 2007
'Russian Knights' air force group member flies over Monino airfield on his jet SU-27 during an aerial show to commemorate the 95th anniversary of Russian Air Forces outside Moscow, August 11, 2007

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A convicted kidnapper who fought for Wagner in Ukraine said it was 'utter hell' and he saw fellow fighters 'cry' and 'vomit' as fear took over in the trenches

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A man wearing a camouflage uniform walks out of PMC Wagner Centre, which is a project implemented by the businessman and founder of the Wagner private military group Yevgeny Prigozhin in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on November 4, 2022.

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