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Hopes for a general ceasefire in Ukraine have increased following meetings with Ukrainian and Russian foreign ministers in Lviv and Moscow, Turkey’s top diplomat has said, informing that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has had another phone conversation with Russian leader Vladimir Putin. “We will welcome to bring two foreign ministers again in Antalya. But we believe it is time to prepare a ground for a meeting between the leaders of Ukraine and Russia,” Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said at a press conference with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba in Kiev on March 17. Çavuşoğlu, who was in Moscow to hold...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was allegedly on a flight headed to Beijing Thursday, but the plane turned around midway and flew back toward Moscow, according to German newspaper Bild. The plane allegedly turned around while over Novosibirsk, a city in Siberia, according to Bild. Fox News Digital has been unable to independently verify the outlet’s report. It is unclear if China refused to meet with a Russian official or if Russian President Vladimir Putin called him back to Russia, according to Bild. The plane's final destination is also unclear. A State Department spokesperson told Fox News they did not...

He said he had an allowance of $3,300 a month and needed UK government permission to spend money. Fridman, who has a net worth of $10.1 billion, Bloomberg's Billionaires Index said, was sanctioned by the European Union on February 28 and by the UK on March 15. The Russian oligarch Mikhail Fridman said in an interview that he didn't know how to live, three weeks after coming under sanctions, Bloomberg reported. He described the EU's sanctions as "groundless and unfair" at the time and said he would contest them, Reuters reported. Since the invasion of Ukraine began, Fridman's wealth dropped...

Russian troops have killed at least 10 civilians standing in line for bread in Chernihiv, a city in northern Ukraine, according to a Ukrainian public broadcaster and the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv. CGTN America @cgtnamerica China state-affiliated media

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday called on Germany to help destroy a new "Wall" Russia was erecting in Europe, as he appealed directly to Chancellor Olaf Scholz to bolster his tentative response to the invasion. In a speech combining an appeal for fresh aid for his besieged country with criticism of Berlin's long accommodating stance toward Moscow, Zelensky recalled Germany's own triumph over its Cold War division. "It's not a Berlin Wall -- it is a Wall in central Europe between freedom and bondage and this Wall is growing bigger with every bomb" dropped on Ukraine, Zelensky told MPs,...

Daughter taken from mom, who was banned from talking about GodBy Greg BurtAn immigrant mother living in Los Angeles has revealed publicly that her 16-year-old daughter killed herself after public school employees, doctors and the courts fed the troubled teen lies about her identity. This progressive ideology promoted by legislative leaders, that one’s gender is separate from biological sex, is driving some mentally struggling teens to despair and leading many others to destroy their reproductive systems with puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones. California teachers, gender counselors and judges tell parents that affirming their child’s self-perception without question is the only...

In a bid to slow the surging crime rate in their state, Sen. Andrew Gounardes (D-Brooklyn) and Assemblywoman Pat Fahy (D-Albany) have proposed a tax of 2 to 5 cents per round of ammunition. Calling the traditional approach of increasing funding for police and imposing severe punishment of criminals "racist," Gounardes believes "using economic incentives will have a greater impact. If every bullet fired costs more, fewer bullets will be fired. Instead of letting loose with a hundred bullet barrage, shooters will be more frugal in their firefights with rival gangs. Robbers will be incentivized to merely threaten to shoot...

On Wednesday, March 16 a congressional briefing revealed the U.S. 100 “Tactical Unmanned Aerial Drone Systems” included as part of an $800 million military aid package to Kyiv as it struggles against Russian invasion in fact referred to lethal Switchblade kamikaze drones. That same package also included 2,000 more Javelin anti-tank missiles, 800 Stinger missiles, and 7,000 lighter AT-4 and LAW single-shot anti-tank weapons. But the term “unmanned system” doesn’t actually refer to an individual drone, but rather to a complete package of ground launch and control systems, and potentially multiple drones. And indeed according to journalist Michael Weiss, a...

Forget producing dinosaurs using DNA from mosquitoes trapped in amber, how about if the dinosaurs themselves got trapped? OK, we're not there yet, but scientists have found a lizard that lived at the peak of the dinosaurs' reign that got trapped in tree resin, and it's a species unknown from more conventional fossils. In Scientific Reports, a team including Dr Juan Daza of Sam Houston State University describes a small lizard distantly related to modern skinks that was found trapped within a lump of amber in Myanmar. Its outstanding preservation gives us an unbeaten insight into a reptile from 110...

As concerns grow over long-term side effects from COVID and vaccination protocols, new school sports requirements are unsettling parents. The Orange County Public School (OCPS) system based out of Orlando, FL recently announced an update to their standards for the 2021-2022 school year which includes an unprecedented new screening. All high school students who desire to participate in one of the available athletic programs are now required to have an electrocardiogram (ECG) screening. According to the OCPS website, the ECG screenings are necessary to “help identify athletes who are at risk for sudden cardiac arrest which is the leading cause...

86.6% of Russians tolerate and support the potential assault on the territory of the European Union, including: Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and others as evidenced by the results of the sociological survey conducted by “Active Group”. 75.5% of Russians approve the idea of a military invasion in the next country and believe that it should be Poland. According to respondents, this is a logical continuation of the so-called “military special operation of the Russian Federation”. Moreover, according to the survey, 75% of respondents tolerate to a varied extent the use of nuclear weapons by their...

The Arizona GOP has filed a lawsuit against the unconstitutional new law that abolished precinct committeemen elections and limited the number of seats available to just one per precinct.

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There’s no question in our minds a global food crisis is emerging. The last example is Russia’s freeze on fertilizer exports will complicate agricultural production in Brazil. Fertilizer costs before Russia invaded Ukraine were already high. The invasion made everything worse as Moscow’s protectionism has crimped exports of the nutrients critical for growing all sorts of farm goods. No other nation in the world relies on foreign fertilizer than Brazil. According to Bloomberg, the South American country imports more than 85% of its fertilizer demand. Russia is its top supplier, and Belarus provides 28% of the total. “Restraining fertilizer consumption...

US Open champion Daniil Medvedev, currently ranked No. 1 in the world, could be banned from Wimbledon, along with fellow Russian and Belarusian athletes, unless they provide “assurance” that they do not support Russian president Vladimir Putin amid the country’s invasion of Ukraine, British Sports Minister Nigel Huddleston said on Tuesday. “Many countries have agreed that they will not allow representatives from Russia to compete. There are also visa issues as well. When it comes to individuals, that is more complex,” Huddleston said at a UK Parliament select committee meeting when asked about Medvedev competing at Wimbledon. “Absolutely nobody flying...

Jussie Smollett’s “unjust” sentencing is proof of the “legal vigilantism” of the “perverted” U.S. justice system where those in power can jail a man because of his skin color, according to a recent Washington Post piece by MSNBC analyst Paul Butler who argued that “sending a Black gay man to jail for lying about being attacked” sends a message to hate crime victims that they may suffer incarceration “if authorities don’t believe their stories.”

The Washington Post’s editor and chief writer of “The Fact Checker” Glenn Kessler pushed misinformation about President Joe Biden’s responsibility for sky-high energy prices in the U.S.

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Radical House Democrats likely recognize the midterm elections will not be kind to them, causing panic and desperation among their ranks. Knowing they will likely not pass many of their radical bills through the Senate and to the president’s desk, Democrats want President Joe Biden to usurp the separations of power and take executive action, a strategy that proves “they’ve already lost their majority,” Politico reported.

Economist Peter Schiff slammed President Joe Biden’s inflation crisis and emphasized it’s much worse than people even realize.