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Jae Youl Kim, President of the International Skating Union, speaks during an interview for Associated Press during the ISU European Figure Skating Championships in Tallinn, Estonia, Friday, Jan. 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
International Skating Union to honor athletes killed in plane crash when Boston hosts world champs
International Skating Union President Jae Youl Kim has held back tears while announcing they will honor athletes and others killed in the mid-air collision near Washington, D.C., when the world championships are staged in Boston in March.
 
Snowdrops bloom at the botanical gardens at Moscow State University in Moscow, Russia, on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025, during unusually warm weather for January, with temperatures of 5 degrees Celsius (41 degrees Fahrenheit). (AP Photo/Pavel Bednyakov)
Russia comes in from the cold, with flowers blooming around Moscow in January
January in Russia conjures up images of Muscovites crunching through the snow in bulky coats -- not bunches of delicate snowdrops blooming in grassy areas around still-standing Christmas trees.
 
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to senior news leaders of international news agencies on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum at the Lakhta Center skyscraper, the headquarters of Russian gas monopoly Gazprom in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Wednesday, June 5, 2024. The Russian leader has used the annual forum as a showcase for touting Russia's development and seeking investors. (Valentina Pevtsova, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
Putin warns that Russia could provide long-range weapons to others to strike Western targets
President Vladimir Putin is warning that Russia could provide long-range weapons to others to strike Western targets elsewhere in the world in response to NATO allies allowing Ukraine to launch attacks on Russian territory.
 
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, center, with Estonia's President Alar Karis, center right, and Estonia's Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, center left, pose for a group photo with parliamentarians after giving a speech to the Riigikogu, or Estonian parliament, in Tallinn, Estonia, Thursday, Jan.11, 2024. (AP Photo)
Ukraine’s Zelenskyy rules out a cease-fire with Russia, saying Moscow would use it to rearm
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has ruled out a cease-fire as his country defends itself against Russia’s invasion. He said Thursday that the Kremlin’s forces would use the pause to rearm and regroup.
 
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich stands in a glass cage in a courtroom at the Moscow City Court, in Moscow, Russia, on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gerhskovich, arrested in Russia on espionage charges, will remain in detention until Jan. 30, a court in Moscow ruled on Thursday. The hearing took place behind closed doors because authorities say details of the criminal case against the American journalist are classified. (AP Photo/Dmitry Serebryakov)
Putin says Russia is in dialogue with the US on exchanging jailed Americans Gershkovich and Whelan
Russian President Vladimir Putin says Moscow is in dialogue with the United States on the issue of bringing home jailed Americans Paul Whelan and Evan Gershkovich.
 
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during his annual news conference in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool)
An emboldened, confident Putin says there will be no peace in Ukraine until Russia’s goals are met
Emboldened by battlefield gains and flagging Western support for Ukraine, a relaxed and confident President Vladimir Putin says there will be no peace until Moscow achieves its goals, which he says are unchanged after nearly two years of fighting.
 
FILE - U.S. President Ronald Reagan, right, and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev exchange pens at a signing ceremony of the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in the White House East Room in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 8, 1987. Both countries pulled out of the treaty in 2019, blaming each other for violations. On Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023, Russia pulled out of the Treaty of Conventional Armed Forces in Europe and NATO member countries froze their participation in the pact, which was aimed at preventing the massing forces at or near their mutual borders, raising fresh questions about the future of arms control agreements in Europe. (AP Photo/Bob Daugherty, File)
NATO freezes a Cold War-era security pact after Russia pulls out, raising questions on arms control
NATO allies have frozen their participation in a key Cold War-era security treaty in response to Russia’s withdrawal from the pact.