N. Korea’s Kim vows to develop more powerful means of attack

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MAR 28, 2022 @ 1845 GMT | FILE – This photo distributed by the North Korean government shows what it says a test-fire of a Hwasong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), at an undisclosed location in North Korea on March 24, 2022. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. Korean language watermark on image as provided by source reads: “KCNA” which is the abbreviation for Korean Central News Agency. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Monday leader Kim Jong Un has vowed to develop more powerful means of attack, days after the country’s first intercontinental ballistic missile launch in more than four years.

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Without Russia, science going solo on world’s woes, dreams

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MAR 27, 2022 @ 1845 GMT | FILE – This photo provided by the CNES shows a Russian Soyuz rocket lifting off from the Kourou space base, French Guiana, early Wednesday Dec.18, 2019. The war in Ukraine is causing a swift and broad decaying of scientific ties between Russia and the West. (ESA-CNES-Arianespace via AP, File)

PARIS, France (AP) — Without Russian help, climate scientists worry how they’ll keep up their important work of documenting warming in the Arctic.

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Activists stage global climate protest, slam Ukraine war

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MAR 26, 2022 @ 1630 GMT | Demonstrators of the Fridays for Future movement march in downtown Rome, Friday, March 25, 2022. Climate activists staged a tenth series of worldwide protests Friday to demand leaders take stronger action against global warming, with some linking their environmental message to calls for an end to the war in Ukraine. (LaPresse via AP)

BERLIN, GERMANY (AP) — Climate activists staged a 10th series of worldwide protests Friday to demand that leaders take stronger action against global warming, with some linking their environmental message to calls for an end to the war in Ukraine.

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Asian stocks fall after West vows more Russia sanctions

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MAR 25, 2022 @ 1545 GMT | A man wearing a protective mask walks in front of an electronic stock board showing Japan’s Nikkei 225 index at a securities firm Friday, March 25, 2022, in Tokyo. Asian stock markets fell Friday after Western governments promised new sanctions on Russia and President Vladimir Putin tried to prop up Moscow’s sinking ruble by threatening to require Europe to use it to pay for gas exports. (AP Photo)

BEIJING, China (AP) — Asian stock markets fell Friday after Western governments promised new sanctions on Russia and President Vladimir Putin tried to prop up Moscow’s sinking ruble by threatening to require Europe to use it to pay for gas exports.

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India, China discuss steps to end border impasse early

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MAR 25, 2022 @ 1500 GMT | In this photo provided by Indian Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar’s Twitter handle, Jaishankar and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi greet the media before their meeting in New Delhi, India, Friday, March 25, 2022. Wang met with Jaishankar and the national security advisor on Friday as part of continuing efforts to disengage thousands of Indian and Chinese forces involved in a tense faceoff and occasional clashes along their disputed border. (Indian Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar’s social media feed via AP)

NEW DELHI, India (AP) — Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with his Indian counterpart and the national security adviser on Friday to expedite the disengagement of thousands of Indian and Chinese forces involved in a tense faceoff and occasional clashes along their disputed border, an Indian official said.

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Russia-Ukraine war: Key things to know about the conflict

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MAR 25, 2022 @ 1630 GMT | Inside view of the regional administration building, heavily damaged after a Russian attack earlier this month in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 24, 2022. (AP Photo)

LONDON, United Kingdom (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on his people to keep up their resistance to Russia’s invading forces, saying “every minute determines our fate, our future, whether we will live.”

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Live updates: Russia to expel more American diplomats

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MAR 24, 2022 @ 1640 GMT | A man helps a disable elderly Ukrainian to embark a train as a children waves at the train station in Odesa, southern Ukraine, on Wednesday, March 23, 2022. The United Nations says more than 3.5 million people — mainly women and children — have fled Ukraine in the four weeks since Russian tanks rolled across the border and Moscow began bombarding towns and cities. (AP Photo)

WASHINGTON, United States (AP) — The U.S. State Department says Russia has begun the process of expelling several more diplomats from the U.S. embassy in Moscow.

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Putin wants ‘unfriendly countries’ to pay rubles for gas

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MAR 23, 2022 @ 1800 GMT | A natural gas power plant of RWE AG is seen in Lingen, Germany, Friday, March 18, 2022. Despite the energy transition to renewables, Germany still relies heavily on imports of oil, gas and coal. Most fossil fuels are imported from Russia. (AP Photo)

MOSCOW, Russia (AP) — President Vladimir Putin announced Wednesday that Russia will demand “unfriendly″ countries pay for Russian natural gas exports only in rubles from now on.

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Scientists worry virus variant may push up COVID cases in US

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MAR 23, 2022 @ 1445 GMT | FILE – Fans storm the court at the conclusion of a college basketball game in Champaign, Ill., on Sunday, March 6, 2022. After about two months of falling COVID-19 cases, pandemic restrictions have been lifted across the U.S., and many people are taking off their masks and returning to indoor spaces. (AP Photo)

LONDON, United Kingdom (AP) — With coronavirus cases rising in parts of Europe and Asia, scientists worry that an extra-contagious version of the omicron variant may soon push cases up in the United States too.

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