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Moscow posted a death toll from its attack on Ukraine for the first time, and Russians who long avoided politics are now grappling with the fact that their country is fighting a deadly conflict.

Mr. Potanin, one of the richest men in Russia and a Guggenheim Museum donor for decades, is the latest oligarch affected by widening outrage over the war in Ukraine.

Many in Taiwan see parallels with Ukraine. “We must use this time of peace to prepare for the worst,” says a nonprofit working to promote civil defense.

Plus the U.S. State of the Union and South Korea’s fight over multiculturalism.

Mayor Eric Adams plans to end certain mask and vaccine mandates in hopes of restoring a sense of normalcy. Some health experts think he should wait.

While protection against hospitalization is still strong, the vaccine offered almost no protection against infection, even just a month after full vaccination.

The agency issued a new set of recommendations intended to help communities live with the virus and get back to normal life.

China has presented itself as a defender of sovereign independence. But its reluctance to denounce Russia’s aggression forces it into an awkward position.

City dwellers, who retreated to rural areas in the pandemic, now see drawbacks, from pests and social isolation to the difficulty of finding day care and health care.

Covid has surged through nursing homes in Hong Kong, but older residents are still among the city’s least vaccinated and the most skeptical.