Zelenskyy responds to China's proposals for Russia's war in Ukraine
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is giving qualified support for some of China's new pronouncements about the war in his country, saying Beijing's interest is "not bad."
"China has shown its thoughts. I believe that the fact that China started talking about Ukraine is not bad," Zelenskyy said at a news conference on the one-year mark of the full-scale Russian invasion. "But the question is what follows the words. The question is in the steps and where they will lead to."
China called for a cease-fire and peace talks between Ukraine and Russia in a vaguely worded proposal released Friday that analysts said was unlikely to deliver results.
President Joe Biden said France was America's "first friend" at its founding and is one of its closest allies more than two centuries later as he was honored with a state visit Saturday by French President Emmanuel Macron aimed at showing off their partnership on global security issues and easing past trade tensions.
The Consumer Federal Protection Bureau last week launched an inquiry into what the agency is calling "junk fees in mortgage closing costs." These additional fees, involving home appraisal, title insurance and other services, have spiked in recent years and can add thousands of dollars to the final cost of buying a home.
Retired Maj. Gen. William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic "Earthrise" photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, was killed Friday when the plane he was piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San Juan Islands in Washington state. He was 90.