The president also demanded the release of the kidnapped mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov, who was seized after he 'refused to cooperate with the enemy', sparking protests of 2,000 people in the southern city. 



For her 26th birthday, the Northampton-born actress was presented with a spectacular British-themed, five-tier cake, featuring Union flags, the London skyline, the Queen's guards and even an iced plate of bangers and mash.

"This is white supremacy at work," Green said. "This is a long tactic of conservative, white supremacist-leaning groups to use education and limit Black people´s access to education, as a way to further control and oppress us."

WASHINGTON (AP) - As a Black student who was raised by a single mother, Makia Green believes she benefited from a program that gave preference to students of color from economically disadvantaged backgrounds when she was admitted over a decade ago to the University of Rochester.

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Democratic Mayor Karen Bass, who was elected in November after promising to take on the city´s out-of-control homeless crisis, announced Monday she would recommend spending what she called a record $1.3 billion next year to get unhoused people into shelter and treatment programs.

Putin's troops have also shelled a mosque housing 86 people including 34 children in the besieged city of Mariupol, whose eastern outskirts have now fallen into Russian hands.
It is not yet known if there are any casualties. 

The toll could be much higher because there are many bodies in the streets around central Khartoum that no one can reach because of the clashes.
There has been no official word on how many civilians or combatants have been killed. The doctors' syndicate earlier put the number of civilian deaths at 97.

Green, who grew up in a low-income household in Harlem, New York, graduated from Rochester with about $40,000 in federal loan debt.
Some of that was erased under a public service forgiveness program when she completed two terms with Americorps, and she whittled it down further with monthly installments until the government paused repayment due to the pandemic.

To raise awareness for her condition and help others in a similar situation, Ms Stout launched a TikTok profile with over 21,000 followers and her most popular video being viewed by over 472,000 people.

The cases are part of a series of Justice Department prosecutions in recent years aimed at disrupting Chinese government efforts to locate in America pro-democracy activists and others who are openly critical of Beijing's policies and to suppress their speech.

'I do not get brush burns or rug burns, instead, the top layer(s) will pull away, which is especially the case if I already have a blister, but it still frequently happens, even when there is no blister in sight.'

But there appear to be signs of slight progress in negotiations, with Zelensky saying the warring countries have begun discussing 'concrete' proposals rather than just 'exchanging ultimatums', although he said any negotiations must begin with a ceasefire.

Like Harry, 'court jester' Pelly, 40, moved to the U.S.
to live with his American wife, and he's now produced his first wine at their vineyard. 'It was a big moment after three years of hard work,' he tells me. 'It was a great vintage with near perfect weather and for young vines we couldn't be happier with how it turned out.'

Deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov warned the US 'that pumping weapons from a number of countries it orchestrates isn't just a dangerous move, it's an action that makes those convoys legitimate targets'

She has admitted disliking the superficiality of LA, saying: 'I have a lot of friends who were brought up in the UK like me [who] are working in LA as actors. They're stuck in this place where everyone is so far up your a**e.'

As she has aged, Ms Stout has noticed that the attention from others was less physical and more intrusive as strangers would approach her and ask her personal questions about her skin, making her feel as though they were treating her as less-than-human.

It is understood the warrant for her arrest was issued after she failed to attend a court hearing on Valentine's Day. When Meyer was handed a suspended sentence, Mr Justice Kerr said she had shown herself 'to be a selfish and untrustworthy person'. 

However, since gaining her following, she has had to put up with trolls calling her 'gross' and dehumanizing her by asking intrusive questions like whether she can have sex when her skin can not tolerate friction. 

A convoy loaded with 90 tonnes of food and medicine left the town of Zaporizhzhia for Mariupol on Saturday, according to local officials, with hopes that it will be able to evacuate civilians on the way back.

As a Black student who was raised by a single mother, Green believes she benefited from a program that gave preference to students of color from economically disadvantaged backgrounds when she was admitted over a decade ago to the University of Rochester. As a borrower who still owes just over $20,000 on her undergraduate student loans, she has been counting on President Joe Biden's promised debt relief to wipe nearly all of that away.