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Pope Leo XIV appears on the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican to bless the crowd below on May 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope meets with head of Greek Catholic Church in Ukraine, who invites him to Kyiv

Pope Leo XIV has met at the Vatican with the head of the Greek Catholic Church in Ukraine. It was one of his first audiences as pontiff that reaffirmed his appeal for a peaceful, negotiated end to Russia’s war.

Eurovision band Ziferblat of Ukraine sings their national anthem with Ukrainian people during a family meeting in a park in Basel as part of the 69th Eurovision Song Contest week, in Basel, Switzerland, Thursday, May 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

War reaches Ukrainian rock band Ziferblat even at the Eurovision Song Contest

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy talks to journalists at the Ukrainian Embassy in Ankara, Turkey, Thursday, May 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Putin spurns Zelenskyy meeting but lower-level Ukraine-Russia talks are still on

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva attends a joint press conference with Chinese President Xi Jinping (not pictured) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Tuesday, May 13, 2025. (Tingshu Wang/Pool Photo via AP)

Brazil’s Lula says he would try to urge Putin to ‘go to Istanbul and negotiate’ with Zelenskyy

Grigory Melkonyants, co-chair of Russia's leading independent election monitoring group Golos who faces up to six years in prison, looks at the media standing in a cage in a courtroom prior to a hearing in Basmanny district court in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, May 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Russian court jails prominent election monitoring activist for 5 years

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Spending the night in relative safety of Kyiv metro station has become the norm for Ukraine mother

For 23-year-old Oleksandra Ymanets, seeking shelter in a Kyiv metro station each night has become routine. Ymanets, who has a 10-month-old son, says the shelter in the subway feels safer than her home at night. (AP Video by Vasilisa Stepanenko)

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Zelenskyy says aid shipments from the U.S. “have been restored”

Horse stable and residential buildings hit in latest Russian drone strike on Ukraine city of Odesa

French organisation sends truck carrying medical supplies and equipment to Ukraine

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President Donald Trump meets with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at Trump Tower, Sept. 27, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)

After years of firm support, 10 days upended the US approach to Ukraine

A woman and child peer out of the window of a bus as they leave Sievierodonetsk, the Luhansk region, in eastern Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

AP PHOTOS: First day of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine captured in images

U.S. Special Envoy for Ukraine and Russia Keith Kellogg, right, and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shake hands during their meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

White House and Ukraine nearing rare earths deal that would tighten relationship, AP source says

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, second left, meets with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, Saudi National Security Advisor Mosaad bin Mohammad Al-Aiban, U.S. National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, third left, U.S. Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, left, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, right, and Russian President Vladimir Putin's foreign policy advisor Yuri Ushakov, second right, at Diriyah Palace, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Tuesday Feb. 18, 2025. (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool Photo via AP)

US offers UN resolution on war in Ukraine that’s far short of rival European statement

Placeholders prepare for the family photo of the G20 foreign ministers meeting that was later cancelled in Johannesburg, South Africa, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Foreign ministers talk war in Ukraine and other conflicts on last day of G20 meeting in South Africa

U.S. Special Envoy for Ukraine and Russia Keith Kellogg, right, and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shake hands during their meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

US envoy praises Zelenskyy after Trump’s censure of the Ukrainian leader

Aftermath of Russian airstrike in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region as firefighters douse flaming vehicle

France’s Macron says he will tell Trump ‘you can’t be weak in front of President Putin’

France's President Emmanuel Macron waits for Romania's Interim President Ilie Boloja, before a meeting on European security, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025, at the Elysee Palace in Paris. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Macron’s message to Trump: ‘You can’t be weak in the face of Putin’

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., calls on a reporter, Feb. 19, 2025, after a Senate policy luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Democrats channel their outrage over DOGE, Ukraine and more in marathon Senate session

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Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks to soldiers at the RAF base in Akrotiri, Cyprus, on Dec. 10, 2024.(AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, Pool File)

European troops, US support are part of an emerging plan for Ukraine. But it faces many hurdles

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, arrives for talks with Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz, at the Munich Security Conference, in Munich, Germany, Saturday, Feb.15, 2025. (Sven Hoppe/DPA via AP, Pool)

Trump’s attempts to denigrate Zelenskyy have led to a surge in Ukrainian unity

UK Foreign Secretary does not see “an appetite” from Russia for peace in Ukraine

Zelenskyy greets Trump’s Ukraine envoy for talks but expected press conference cancelled

Air defences try to take down Russian drone as it flies over Kyiv

White House national security adviser Mike Waltz speaks with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

US official says Trump’s frustration with Zelenskyy is ‘multifold’ and blasts ‘insults’ from Ukraine

Top White House aide says Trump is ‘obviously very frustrated’ with Ukraine’s Zelenskyy

Ukraine’s Zelenskyy pays tribute to those killed in 2014 protests

NATO chief engaging with member countries ‘actively and intensely’ over defence spending

U.S. Special Envoy for Ukraine and Russia Keith Kellogg, right, and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shake hands during their meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

A news conference between Zelenskyy and Trump’s Ukraine envoy is canceled as tension rise

A news conference between Zelenskyy and Donald Trump’s Ukraine envoy is cancelled at U.S. request, a Kyiv official says

Kremlin says Ukraine’s statements about heads of other states ‘unacceptable’

Emergency services at scene as official says Russian strike hits residential building in Kherson

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British Foreign Secretary David Lammy arrives for the opening session of the G20 foreign ministers meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

UK foreign secretary questions Russia’s ‘appetite’ for peace and challenges Lavrov at tense G20 meet

Natali Sevriukova reacts next to her house following a rocket attack the city of Kyiv, Ukraine, on Feb. 25, 2022. The yearlong war in Ukraine has left tens of thousands of dead and wounded on both sides, disrupted energy and food supplies, and reduced whole cities to ruins. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)

Russia seems to have time on its side as the war in Ukraine reaches its third year

Trump says Zelenskyy ‘has done a terrible job’ and blames him for war

Sweden, UK, Norway officials react to Trump’s comments about Ukraine starting the war

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