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Determined to escape as shelling threatened their village in eastern Ukraine, two dozen desperate people thought they were taking a safe route out -- but it all went bad quickly. At a Kharkiv hospital, survivors recall an ambush that authorities say killed 13 children and 11 adults.
As Russian President Vladimir Putin marks his 70th birthday on October 7, military setbacks in Ukraine and an unpopular mobilization could have the Russian public rethinking their approval of the longtime leader who has crushed dissent and taken the country into a war that clouds its future.
Iran has faced more than two weeks of protests triggered by the death of a woman in police custody, police arrested a singer whose song became the anthem of the protests, and Tehran allowed a detained Iranian-American to leave the country.
Long before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Kharkiv artist Hamlet Zinkivskiy was known for the spare, thought-provoking murals that changed the face of his beloved city. Now he is turning its walls into a record of wartime experiences.
Unlike the Russians who had entered Georgia in the weeks immediately following the invasion of Ukraine in February, a new crop of Russians, many dodging the recent military draft, are arriving through a border in the Caucasus Mountains.