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With the world eager to wean itself from Russian oil after the invasion of Ukraine, negotiators appeared close to signing a revived nuclear pact with Iran and lifting sanctions. Then Moscow put up a hurdle.

“Few expected such strength from our people,” said a Ukrainian colonel whose soldiers have repelled a Russian attack on the port city of Mykolaiv for three days.

Russian forces hit a bridge being used by civilians evacuating the fighting in Ukraine. Four people were killed.

The United States has walked to the edge of direct conflict with Russia in an operation that is reminiscent of the Berlin airlift of 1948-49, but far more complex.

As the opposing armies fought outside the strategic port city near the Black Sea, residential areas within Mykolaiv came under intensifying Russian rocket and artillery fire.

Today, as in the early 1900s, Jews are once again escaping violence in southeast Europe. But the context is radically different — cathartically so for the many Israelis who have come here to join the relief effort.

Russian authorities and multinational companies have erected a digital barricade between the country and the West, erasing the last remnants of independent information online.

Global stocks dipped on Monday as U.S. officials discussed an oil cutoff, and gas prices hit a national average above $4, up more than 10 percent in a week.

The treatment could be lifesaving for many who cannot get protection from the vaccine, but confusion about the drug has made some doctors slow to prescribe it.

New York City is home to some 300,000 Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union.