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Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times:
US officials say Russia has asked China for military help in Ukraine — White House fears move is sign of increasingly close ties between Beijing and Moscow — Russia has asked China for military equipment to support its invasion of Ukraine, according to US officials …
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New York Times:
Russia Asked China for Military and Economic Aid for Ukraine War, U.S. Officials Say — WASHINGTON — Russia asked China to give it military equipment and support for the war in Ukraine after President Vladimir V. Putin began a full-scale invasion last month, according to U.S. officials.
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David Corn / Mother Jones:
Leaked Kremlin Memo to Russian Media: It Is “Essential” to Feature Tucker Carlson — On March 3, as Russian military forces bombed Ukrainian cities as part of Vladimir Putin's illegal invasion of his neighbor, the Kremlin sent out talking points to state-friendly media outlets with a request: Use more Tucker Carlson.
Michael Schwirtz / New York Times:
Brent Renaud, an American Journalist, Is Killed in Ukraine — Brent Renaud, an award-winning American filmmaker and journalist, was killed in Ukraine on Sunday while reporting in a suburb of the capital, Kyiv, according to Ukraine's Interior Ministry. — Mr. Renaud, 50, had worked …
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TIME:
A Statement from TIME on the Death of Journalist Brent Renaud — From TIME Editor in Chief and CEO Edward Felsenthal and President and COO of TIME and TIME Studios Ian Orefice: — We are devastated by the loss of Brent Renaud. As an award-winning filmmaker and journalist …
Pamela Sampson / Associated Press:
Acclaimed filmmaker Brent Renaud shot, killed in Ukraine — Brent Renaud, an acclaimed filmmaker who traveled to some of the darkest and most dangerous corners of the world for documentaries that transported audiences to little-known places of suffering, died Sunday after Russian forces opened fire on his vehicle in Ukraine.
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Stefan Becket / CBS News:
American journalist Brent Renaud shot and killed by Russian forces in Ukraine, police say
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Elizabeth Faddis / Washington Examiner:
New York Times reporter gunned down by Russian troops
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J. Kim Murphy / Variety:
William Hurt, Oscar-Winning Actor for ‘Kiss of the Spider Woman,’ Dies at 71 … William Hurt, an acclaimed actor best known for his Oscar-winning performance in 1985's “Kiss of the Spider Woman” and his work in “Broadcast News,” “A History of Violence” and “Children of a Lesser God,” died Sunday of natural causes.
Wall Street Journal:
Russian Prosecutors Warn Western Companies of Arrests, Asset Seizures — McDonald's and IBM are among those cautioned if leaders there criticize the government or if companies withdraw from the country — Russian prosecutors have issued warnings to Western companies in Russia …
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Into the Void, Forbes and Political Wire
Washington Post:
Russia-Ukraine live updates: Russian strike on military site near Poland kills at least 35, injures 134 — Ukrainian officials say an American journalist was shot and killed while reporting on the outskirts of Kyiv, where there has been heavy fighting.
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
TV coverage amplifies the GOP's false claims about gas prices — Unsurprisingly, the most egregious examples of the media regurgitating right-wing talking points on gas prices often come from Fox News. White House reporter Peter Doocy has parroted oil industry talking points at White House briefings …
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Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Fox's Maria Bartiromo Actually Wonders if Biden Wants Ukraine ‘Taken Down’
Brittany Shepherd / ABC News:
Americans remain critical of Biden's handling of inflation, support ban on Russian oil: POLL
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New York Times:
‘Things Will Only Get Worse.’ Putin's War Sends Russians Into Exile. — Thousands of Russians saw their comfortable, middle-class lives fade overnight with the invasion ordered by President Vladimir V. Putin. — ISTANBUL — They lined up at ATM's, desperate for cash after Visa …
Washington Post:
'I'm writing this post now and crying': Russians bid farewell to Instagram before midnight ban — RIGA, Latvia — The tears were flowing Sunday among Russia's airbrushed Instagram influencers, who begged their followers in farewell posts to join them on alternative social media platforms …
Isobel Koshiw / The Guardian:
Tanks, bombs, shootings: Ukrainians describe Russian takeover of villages — Witnesses describe soldiers shooting people dead in the street and confiscating phones and laptops — Russian soldiers have shot people dead in the street as they took over Ukrainian villages, according to fleeing residents.
Financial Times:
Russia threatens to make external debt payments in roubles — Warning from finance minister Anton Siluanov increases risk of nation's first default since 1998 — Russia has threatened to pay international bondholders in roubles rather than dollars just days before a key interest payment on its external debt comes due.
New York Times:
Finding a Way Out of the War in Ukraine Proves Elusive — WASHINGTON — The United States accurately predicted the start of the war in Ukraine, sounding the alarm that an invasion was imminent despite Moscow's denials and Europe's skepticism. Predicting how it might end is proving far more difficult.
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Song Sang-ho / Yonhap News Agency:
N. Korea seen preparing for another imminent ICBM system test: sources — South Korea and the United States have detected signs that North Korea is preparing to conduct another intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) system test as early as this week, informed sources here said Monday.
Matt Taibbi / TK News:
Orwell Was Right — From free speech to “spheres of influence” to our passion for endless war, we've become the doublethinkers 1984 predicted — This weekend I re-read 1984, a book I tend to reach for when I get Defcon-1 depressed about the state of the world.
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New York Times:
At Least 35 Reported Dead, More Than 100 Injured in Base Attack — More than 100 were injured after missiles hit a base used to ferry weapons and train foreign fighters. Russia had warned that arms shipments were “legitimate targets.” — Russia's air assault on a Ukrainian base brings the war closer to the Polish border.
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Vivian Yee / New York Times:
Saudi Arabia Executes 81 People — It was the kingdom's largest mass execution in years. In many cases, the charges involved “not a drop of blood,” a rights activist said. — CAIRO — Saudi Arabia said on Saturday that it had put 81 people to death in what was the kingdom's largest mass execution …
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Aziz El Yaakoubi / Reuters:
Saudi Arabia executes 81 men in one day for terrorism, other offences
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David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
‘His act is wearing thin’: North Carolina Republicans gripe about Madison Cawthorn — Rep. Madison Cawthorn is stumbling at home and abroad as his bid to play Republican kingmaker falls flat with voters and alienates colleagues. — The 26-year-old, first-term North Carolina Republican saw …
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