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Patterson 'doubtful' for Scotland vs Ukraine as Clarke reveals squad injury impact

A view of a street in Mariupol, in territory under the government of the Donetsk People's Republic, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, May 17, 2022, with the Azovstal steel plant in the background. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov)

Red Cross registers hundreds of Ukrainian PoWs from Mariupol
The Russian military has said that more Ukrainian fighters who were making a last stand in Mariupol have surrendered, bringing the total who have left their stronghold to 1,730, while the Red Cross said it had registered hundreds of them as prisoners of war.

COVID DEATHS DROPPED BY 21% LAST WEEK BUT CASES RISING, SAYS WHO

Covid deaths dropped by 21% last week but cases rising, says WHO

Salmonella bacteria

266 cases confirmed in salmonella outbreak linked to chocolate Easter eggs

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden visit the scene of a shooting at a supermarket to pay respects and speak to families of the victims of Saturday's shooting in Buffalo, N.Y., Tuesday, May 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Buffalo shooter shared plans through website discord

A woman stands next to a destroyed house in Mariupol, in territory under the government of the Donetsk People's Republic, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, May 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov)

Nearly 1,000 troops have left Mariupol steelworks, says Russia

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg displays documents as Sweden and Finland applied for membership in Brussels, Belgium, Wednesday May 18, 2022. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said that the military alliance stands ready to seize a historic

Ukraine hopes to swap Mariupol steel plant fighters for Russian PoWs

Ukrainian mountaineer Antonina Samoilova waves as she arrives at the airport after climbing Mount Everest, in Kathmandu, Nepal, Tuesday, May 17, 2022. Hundreds of climbers who scaled Mount Everest over the last few days taking advantage of favorable

Hundreds of Everest climbers begin to return from summit

People watch a TV screen showing a news program reporting with an image of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, at a train station in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, May 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man).

North Korea reports another jump in suspected Covid-19 cases

Eric Clapton cancels shows after testing positive for Covid

FILE - People look at a crater created by a Russian rocket attack in a schoolyard in Dobropillya, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, April 28, 2022. Despite the widespread damage and destruction to educational infrastructure, war crimes experts

Russia claims steel plant 'surrender' while Ukraine says 'mission accomplished'

FILE - People look at a crater created by a Russian rocket attack in a schoolyard in Dobropillya, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, April 28, 2022. Despite the widespread damage and destruction to educational infrastructure, war crimes experts

Efforts launched to rescue last Azovstal defenders as 'mission completed'

Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary General of Nato

Sweden signs formal request to join Nato

People inspect the area of a landslide after heavy rainfall in Dima Hasao district, in the northeastern Indian state of Assam, Monday, May 16, 2022. At least eight people have died in floods and mudslides triggered by heavy rains in India’s

Deaths in floods and mudslides triggered by heavy rain in India's Assam region

A photo of Dr. John Cheng, a 52-year-old victim who was killed in Sunday's shooting at Geneva Presbyterian Church, is displayed outside his office in Aliso Viejo, Calif., Monday, May 16, 2022. Authorities say a Chinese-born gunman was motivated by

Doctor who died as he tackled gunman in church shooting is hailed a hero

Ukrainian servicemen patrol in a recently retaken village, north of Kharkiv, east Ukraine, Sunday, May 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov).

Updated EU's Russia sanctions effort slows over oil dependency

Rescuers inspect the wreckage of a tourist bus that crashed into a street sign on a highway in Mojokerto, East Java, Indonesia Monday, May 16, 2022. The accident killed and injured a number of people. (AP Photo/Misti Prihatini).

14 killed as Indonesian tourist bus crashes into billboard

Muslim Uighurs pray at the Jame Mosque where over 10,000 people attended Friday afternoon prayers during Ramadan, 13 October 2006 in Hotan, in China's far west Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region in Central Asia. (Photo credit should read FREDERIC J.

Uighur county in China has highest prison rate in the world

Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson talks during the parliamentary debate on the Swedish application for NATO membership, in Stockholm, Monday, May 16, 2022. Sweden's lawmakers debate about applying for NATO membership, paving the way for a historic

Swedish legislators debate joining Nato as attitudes change

FILE - The oldest of Moscow's McDonald's outlets, which was opened on Jan. 31, 1990, is closed on Aug. 21, 2014. McDonald’s says it's started the process of selling its Russian business, which includes 850 restaurants that employ 62,000

McDonald's to sell its Russian business

A truck transports a platform with a Ukrainian self-propelled artillery vehicle in Donetsk region, Ukraine, on Thursday, May 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Kremlin warns of retaliation after Finland seeks to join Nato

In this image supplied by the Australian Department of Defence, Chinese People's Liberation Army-Navy (PLA-N) Intelligence Collection Vessel Haiwangxing operating off the north-west shelf of Australia, Wednesday, May 11, 2022. Australian Minister of

Australia says Chinese spy ship sighted close to west coast

Debris and garbage collected during the year-long Lake Tahoe cleanup is displayed in Stateline, Nev., Tuesday, May 10, 2022. They found no trace of a mythical sea monster, no sign of mobsters in cement shoes or long-lost treasure chests. But scuba divers

No sea serpents or mobsters - but Tahoe trash divers still strike gold

A man impersonating North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un arrives as Prime Minister Scott Morrison leaves Extel Technologies manufacturing facility on Day 33 of the 2022 federal election campaign, in Melbourne, Australia, Friday, May 13, 2022. (Mick

Kim Jong-un lookalike disrupts Australian election campaign event

Finland's President Sauli Niinisto, at a press conference at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, Finland. Picture date: Wednesday May 11, 2022. PA Photo. The visit comes as Sweden and Finland consider whether to apply for Nato membership in the wake

Finland's leaders advocate Nato membership 'without delay'

FILE- Nepalese female climber Lhakpa Sherpa talks with Associated Press in Kathmandu, Nepal, May 23, 2018. The Nepali Sherpa woman living in Connecticut scaled Mount Everest Thursday breaking her own record of the most climbs of the world's highest

Sherpa woman breaks her own record by climbing Everest for 10th time

Visitors use binoculars to see the North Korean side from the unification observatory in Paju, South Korea, Thursday, May 12, 2022. North Korea imposed a nationwide lockdown Thursday to control its first acknowledged COVID-19 outbreak after holding for

Kim Jong-un orders lockdown as North Korea confirms first Covid outbreak

In this image from video provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks from Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, May 10, 2022. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

Ukrainians stop Russian gas at one hub and claim gains in east

Escaped inmate Casey White, right, arrives at the Lauderdale County Courthouse in Florence, Ala., after waiving extradition in Indiana Tuesday, May 10, 2022. (Dan Busey/The TimesDaily via AP)

Sheriff: Alabama inmate and prison officer were prepared for a shoot-out

A diver videos rich and healthy hard corals uneffected after recent coral bleaching events, Far Northern Reefs, Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia, Coral Sea, South Pacific Ocean.

Most Great Barrier Reef coral studied this year was bleached

A Ukrainian serviceman stands next to the body of a suspected Russian soldier, in the village of Vilkhivka, recently retaken by Ukraininan forces near Kharkiv, Ukraine, Monday, May 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Russia fires hypersonic missiles at Odesa as '44 civilians found dead in Izyum'

Students and activists face riot police during a rally in front of the office of the Commission on Elections as they question the results of the presidential elections in Manila, Philippines on Tuesday May 10, 2022. The namesake son of late Philippine

Ferdinand Marcos Jr has won Philippine presidency, unofficial count shows

FILE - This combination of photos provided by the U.S. Marshals Service and Lauderdale County Sheriff's Office in April 2022 shows inmate Casey White, left, and Assistant Director of Corrections Vicky White. On Saturday, April 30 the Lauderdale

Fugitive inmate captured and ex-jail officer dead after manhunt

Activists shout slogans as Russian Ambassador to Poland, Ambassador Sergey Andreev, left, is covered with red paint in Warsaw, Poland, Monday, May 9, 2022. Protesters have thrown red paint on the Russian ambassador as he arrived at a cemetery in Warsaw

Russian ambassador to Poland hit with red paint by protesters

Russian servicemen march during the Victory Day military parade in Moscow, Russia, Monday, May 9, 2022, marking the 77th anniversary of the end of World War II. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Putin says Russian offensive in Ukraine is 'response to western policies'

Smoke rises from the Metallurgical Combine Azovstal in Mariupol, in territory under the government of the Donetsk People's Republic, eastern in Mariupol, Ukraine, Thursday, May 5, 2022. Heavy fighting is raging at the besieged steel plant in Mariupol

Fresh effort races to rescue civilians from Mariupol plant

FILE - Nadiya Trubchaninova, 70, sits next to a plastic bag that contains the body of her son Vadym Trubchaninov, 48, who was killed by Russian soldiers in Bucha on March 30, in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 12, 2022. Amnesty

Amnesty International: Russia must face war crimes justice

An Israeli police officer investigates the scene of a stabbing attack in the town of Elad, Israel, Thursday, May 5, 2022. Israeli medics say at least three people were killed in a stabbing attack near Tel Aviv on Thursday night. Israeli police said they

Manhunt after three killed in mass stabbing near Tel Aviv

Sri Lankans protest demanding the resignation of the government in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, May 6, 2022. Protesters have hung undergarments near Sri Lanka???s Parliament while shops, offices and schools closed and transport came to a near standstill

Sri Lankan protesters bring transport to near-standstill amid economic crisis

White House press secretary Jen Psaki introduces incoming press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre during a press briefing at the White House, Thursday, May 5, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci).

New White House press secretary is first black and openly LGBT woman in role

In this image made from video supplied by NASA, SpaceX Dragon space capsule splashes down in the Gulf of Mexico early Friday, May 6, 2022. NASA’s Raja Chari, Tom Marshburn and Kayla Barron, and the European Space Agency’s Matthias Maurer

SpaceX brings four astronauts home with midnight splashdown

People cross the Champs Elysees avenue as Paris suffers a pollution spike, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016. (AP Photo/Michel Euler).

EU governments may have to cough up over air pollution as Parisian asks for £18m

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, rescue workers evacuate the 10th survivor pulled alive after being trapped 132 hours from the debris of a self-built residential structure that collapsed in Changsha in central China's Hunan Province on

Survivor found almost six days after China building collapse

A demonstrator clenches his fist through a torn up representation of the Israeli flag in the annual pro-Palestinian Al-Quds, or Jerusalem, Day rally in Tehran, Iran, Friday, April 29, 2022. Iran does not recognize Israel and supports Hamas and Hezbollah,

Israeli police enter tense holy site as Jewish visits resume

FILE - Rapper Kidd Creole, whose real name is Nathaniel Glover, is arraigned in New York Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017, after he was arrested on a murder charge. Rapper Kidd Creole has been sentenced on Wednesday, May 4, 2022, to 16 years in prison for stabbing

Rapper Kidd Creole sentenced to 16 years for fatal stabbing of homeless man

A slurry bomber dumps the fire retardant between the Calf Canyon/Hermit Peak Fire and homes on the westside of Las Vegas, N.M., Tuesday, May 3, 2022. Several types of aircraft joined the fight to keep the fire away for the Northern New Mexico town.

Governor of US state seeks disaster status amid battle to control wildfire

A woman opens her mouth for a swab during mass COVID tests on Friday, April 29, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan).

Beijing closes 10% of subway stations in bid to stem Covid spread

This photo distributed by the North Korean government shows what it says a test-fire of a Hwasong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), at an undisclosed location in North Korea on March 24, 2022. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service

North Korea fires ballistic missile amid rising animosities

Israelis stand still to observe two minutes of silence as air raid sirens sound to mark Israel's annual Memorial Day for fallen soldiers in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, May 4, 2022. Israel marks Memorial Day in remembrance of soldiers who died in the

Sirens wail and people pause as Israel commemorates war dead

A crowd of people gather outside the Supreme Court, early Tuesday, May 3, 2022 in Washington. A draft opinion circulated among Supreme Court justices suggests that earlier this year a majority of them had thrown support behind overturning the 1973 case

Updated Biden blasts Supreme Court's abortion draft ruling

Casey White and Vicky White left the prison on Friday.

Hunt for ‘dangerous’ murder suspect and jail boss ‘who helped him escape’

A security guard wears full PPE to protect against the spread of COVID-19 at a testing site in Chaoyang District on April 25, 2022 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images) *** BESTPIX ***.

Beijing 'preparing 1,000-bed hospital' to deal with spike in Covid cases

In this image supplied by Rocket Lab, the Electron rocket blasts off for its

Helicopter catches - and then drops - falling electron rocket

EU moves forward in antitrust case against Apple

FILE - Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez speaks on his cell phone during a round table meeting at an EU summit in Brussels, Monday, July 20, 2020. Spanish officials said on Monday May 2, 2022 that the cellphones of the prime minister and the

2021 spyware attack targeted Spanish PM's phone, say officials