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Many had hoped for a more cheerful Ramadan after the coronavirus pandemic blocked the world’s 2 billion Muslims from many rituals the past two years.

Thomas Develin posted a photo of himself holding a gun, saying: “I’m at a Jewish school and about to make it everyone’s problem.”

The Russian president "is a war criminal,” asserts Carla Del Ponte, former chief prosecutor of the UN tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.

Gabriel Noronha, who served as special advisor for Iran in the US State Department and as a Republican staffer on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said he was compelled to come forward with details of the negotiations by his former colleagues within the US government.

"Now I do not have time to deal with all the traitors but gradually they will all be punished," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says after firing two top security officials who he claimed are "traitors."

The Russians had said they would significantly scale back military operations in areas around Kyiv and Chernihiv to help negotiations with Ukraine along. Russian President Vladimir Putin warns Europe to pay for gas in rubles or else.

"I want to underscore that the Russian armed forces do not strike civilian targets as part of the special military operation," Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov says.

The White House says the Russian president is not fully aware of military using and losing conscripts in Ukraine, or the extent to which the Russian economy is being damaged by economic sanctions imposed by the West. UN says the number of Ukrainian refugees exceeds its worst-case estimate.

The US Treasury Department accuses Iranian agent Mohammad Ali Hosseini and his network of companies of procuring ballistic missile propellant-related materials for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps unit responsible for research and development of ballistic missiles.