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A vendor waits for customers in a small store that is lit with candles during a power outage in Odesa.
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Hard Numbers: Odesa in darkness, Pan Am 103 arrest, Japan religious solicitation ban, Peruvian early vote

Russian airstrikes with Iranian-made drones knocked out the power network in the Ukrainian port city of Odesa.

Putin improves his hand in Ukraine
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Putin improves his hand in Ukraine

Ian Bremmer's Quick Take: You've probably seen the latest news that Luhansk has fallen. The Donbas, which is now the focus of the Russian war, not the entire focus, but certainly the lion's share of. It is comprised of two different administrative regions, one Donetsk, the other Luhansk. The Ukrainians had been giving a pretty solid fight, but they've been losing territory pretty consistently if slowly, over the last month and a half. And this means that Luhansk is now fully under Russian control.

Why the battle over Ukraine’s Snake Island matters for the world
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Why the battle over Ukraine’s Snake Island matters for the world

One of the most important battles raging in the Russia-Ukraine war is over Snake Island, a tiny, craggy, largely uninhabitable speck of land in the Black Sea off the southwestern coast of Ukraine.