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Opinion: Why the US should investigate Russian aggression in Ukraine as genocide
CNN
While President Joe Biden has spoken openly about Russian war crimes, his administration has responded more cautiously to any references of genocide in Ukraine. But the US should investigate into it, writes Daniel Rothenberg.
While President Joe Biden has spoken openly about Russian war crimes, his administration has responded more cautiously to any references of genocide in Ukraine. And rightly so; genocide is a complex legal concept, which many experts consider difficult to apply and widely misused.
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Leaders representing the Group of Seven nations are set to announce as soon as Thursday an agreement to loan money to Ukraine backed by the profits from frozen Russian investments, according to sources familiar with the discussions, providing a new source of revenue to a war-torn nation facing a steep and costly road to recovery.
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An Arizona man was indicted by a federal grand jury this week on several firearms charges, having been accused by the US Justice Department of planning a mass shooting targeting Black people and other minorities at a May Atlanta concert in hopes of inciting a race war before the upcoming presidential election.
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House Republicans voted Wednesday to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over the audio recordings of President Joe Biden’s interviews with former special counsel Robert Hur, who investigated Biden’s handling of classified material and declined to bring charges.