By Simone McCarthy and CNN’s Beijing bureau As Russian missiles flew through the Ukrainian sky Thursday and world leaders decried an invasion spreading across the country, China refused to condemn Russia’s move outright, while appearing to levy blame on the United States and its allies. Beijing finds itself in a complex position as Russia’s invasion
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By Charles Riley, CNN Business The West has announced a barrage of tough new sanctions aimed at cutting off Russia’s banks from the global financial system and depriving the country of vital technology. Yet a punishing financial weapon is being kept in reserve. The United States and the European Union held back from cutting Russia
Continue ReadingBy Oleksandra Ochman and Tim Lister, CNN Ukrainians will never forget the events of February 24, 2022. But for some, birthdays in years to come will be especially poignant and tinged with memories of a traumatic day. Natalia, a communications manager who lives in the capital, Kyiv, had an unusual wake-up call on her 31st
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By Brad Lendon, Tim Lister and Josh Pennington, CNN Update: The Ukrainian soldiers on Snake Island were all feared to have been killed in the Russian attack on February 24. On February 28, however, the Ukrainian Navy released a statement saying the troops were “alive and well,” but were forced to surrender “due to the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou women’s basketball team could not get it done against the Kentucky Wildcats on Thursday night, falling 78-63 in the final home game of the season. Ladazhia Williams, Aijha Blackwell, Kiya Dorroh, and Skylah Travis all did not suit up against the Cats. Mizzou did not release a statement on the
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A jury acquitted a Columbia woman that protested the city’s building of a trail.
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Check back for updates related to the winter storm.
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Gov. Mike Parson signed House Bill 3014, the supplemental budget, Thursday.
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Smoke could be seen pouring from units at Cosmo Self Storage on Creasy Springs Road from several blocks away.
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy, CNN It was not the wedding day they envisaged, but as Russia attacked their country Thursday Yaryna Arieva and her partner Sviatoslav Fursin rushed to tie the knot with the sound of air raid sirens ringing in their ears. “That was very scary,” Arieva, who married her partner at Kyiv’s St Michael’s
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia Police Department has detained a second teenager after a deadly shooting on McKee Street. Police said Thursday that the 16-year-old boy was taken into custody on possible charges of first-degree murder, armed criminal action, and assault. @ColumbiaPD Columbia Police detain a second juvenile involved in homicide at a residence in
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TONIGHT: Mostly cloudy with patchy freezing drizzle causing a slick glaze of ice on untreated areas. Lows in the mid-upper teens. TOMORROW: Mostly sunny and warmer with highs in the lower 30s. EXTENDED: Roads that are treated should fare well overnight, but patchy freezing drizzle will be possible through late this evening with low clouds
Continue ReadingBy Kara Scannell, CNN The abrupt resignations of two top prosecutors investigating former President Donald Trump and his business cast into doubt the future of the long-running probe as the clock winds down on the current grand jury and prosecutors debated whether they have a case. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has been gearing up
Continue ReadingBy Gloria Borger, CNN Chief Political Analyst Back in the day when Donald Trump was just a problem child, he wound up in detention so much after school that his classmates began calling it the DT’s. The Detention Club became his special place. Decades later, in 2016, when Trump was elected president, he automatically became
Continue ReadingBy Jeremy Herb and Phil Mattingly, CNN US President Joe Biden unleashed sweeping sanctions Thursday responding to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s attack on Ukraine that target Moscow’s banking, technology and aerospace sectors, though the US and Europe stopped short of several key steps to target Moscow — and Putin himself. Still, the scale of the
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden on Thursday unveiled harsh new sanctions on Russia meant to punish the country for its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, calling out Russian President Vladimir Putin for his aggression even as he acknowledged it would take time for the new measures to alter Putin’s behavior. “Putin is the aggressor.
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Russia has launched an unprecedented military assault on Ukraine by land, air and sea that has already left dozens dead, prompting Western leaders to condemn Moscow and vow unity with Kyiv.
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Continue ReadingBy Oliver Darcy, CNN Business The bombs in the Ukrainian capital went off as CNN was broadcasting live on-air. “There are big explosions taking place in Kyiv right now,” Matthew Chance, a senior international correspondent for the network, said as he broadcast from a rooftop shortly after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the Russian invasion
Continue ReadingBy Jeremy Herb, Barbara Starr and Ellie Kaufman, CNN US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin deployed an additional 7,000 US troops to Europe on Thursday following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a move intended to bolster NATO countries in Eastern Europe in the face of Moscow’s aggression. President Joe Biden said at the White House Thursday that
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