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Tuesday, June 21, 2022

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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"Buffalo," the name he uses as a soldier, walks in a treadmill at a clinic in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, June 17, 2022. "Buffalo" was at the Azovstal plant, in an underground bunker-turned-medical station that provided shelter from death and destruction above. He was among those in the list for evacuation after being shredded by mortar rounds, losing his left leg above the knee. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

'The impossible': Ukraine's secret, deadly rescue missions

A series of clandestine, against-the-odds helicopter missions to reach besieged soldiers are being celebrated in Ukraine as one of the riskiest, most heroic feats of military derring-do in the four-month war against Russia
The Nuri rocket, the first domestically built space rocket, lifts off from a launch pad at the Naro Space Center in Goheung, South Korea, Tuesday, June 21, 2022. South Korea launched its first domestically built space rocket on Tuesday in the country's second attempt, months after its earlier liftoff failed to place a payload into orbit. (Kim In-chul/Yonhap via AP)

S. Korea runs 1st successful homegrown space rocket launch

South Korea says it has successfully launched its first homegrown space rocket
Fadel Alkhudr from Syria poses beside his wooden model of the word heritage Cologne Cathedral on display at the Domforum in Cologne, Germany, Monday, June 20, 2022. Fadel Alkhudr, 42, a woodcarver and artist orginally from Aleppo, Syria, fled the war in his home country and arrived in the western german city of Cologne in 2015. In 2019 he started to carve the local Cologne Cathedral in his small basement - without any plans or drawings, using only cell phone photos of the cathedral as a template. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

'A dear friend': Syrian carves model of Cologne cathedral

When Syrian refugee Fadel Alkhudr arrived in Germany in 2015, the first thing he saw when he stepped out of the train in Cologne was the city's majestic cathedral
FILE - The Danish art group Superflex projects marine life images onto the United Nations headquarters building in New York City with the East River visible in the background on Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2021. A United Nations summit on biodiversity will be held in Canada instead of China, organizers announced Tuesday, June 21, 2022, the second major international event to depart China because of its strict anti-COVID policies. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)

UN biodiversity summit moved from China over COVID-19 policy

A United Nations summit on biodiversity will be held in Canada instead of China, the second major international event to be moved from China because of its strict anti-coronavirus policies
Passengers stand around inside Euston station in London on the first day of a rail strike on Tuesday June 21, 2022. Britain's biggest rail strikes in decades went ahead Tuesday after last-minute talks between a union and train companies failed to reach a settlement over pay and job security. Up to 40,000 cleaners, signalers, maintenance workers and station staff are due to walk out for three days this week, on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. (Stefan Rousseau/PA via AP)
UK rail strike strands commuters, pits workers against govt
Tens of thousands of railway workers have walked off the job in Britain, bringing the train network to a crawl in the country's biggest transit strike in three decades
FILE - Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb speaks during a news conference on Sept. 27, 2021, in Indianapolis. The Indiana Supreme Court on Friday, June 3, 2022, threw out a law that gave state legislators increased power to intervene during public health emergencies, agreeing with arguments from Holcomb that the move violated the state constitution. The court's unanimous decision settles a legal fight that began more than a year ago when Holcomb sued over a law that was a response to his efforts to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/AJ Mast, File)
Indiana gas tax increases while state eyes inflation relief
Indiana residents will pay 62 cents per gallon in state taxes on gasoline starting July 1
A flood affected family waits for the help at marooned Tarabari village, west of Gauhati, in the northeastern Indian state of Assam, Monday, June 20, 2022. Authorities in India and Bangladesh are struggling to deliver food and drinking water to hundreds of thousands of people evacuated from their homes in days of flooding that have submerged wide swaths of the countries. The floods triggered by monsoon rains have killed more than a dozen people, marooned millions and flooded millions of houses. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
Dozens dead, thousands homeless in Bangladesh, India floods
Villagers in northeastern Bangladesh are crowding makeshift refugee centers and scrambling to meet boats arriving with food and fresh water as massive floods, which have killed dozens of people and displaced hundreds of thousands there and in neighboring India, continue to wreak havoc
In this photo provided by the U.S. Forest Service, Jason Nez, center, talks to wildland fire personnel working a blaze in northern Arizona in 2021. Nez is a Navajo archaeologist and firefighter who advises fire officials on how to protect archaeological resources. (Paul Dawson/U.S. Forest Service via AP)
Arizona fires sweep land rich with ancient sites, artifacts
Wildfires in northern Arizona are crossing land rich with signs of human existence through centuries
President Joe Biden talks to the media Monday after walking on the beach with his granddaughter, Natalie Biden, left, and his daughter, Ashley Biden, right, at Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.
Biden says decision on gas tax holiday may come this week
President Joe Biden said Monday that he's considering a federal holiday on the gasoline tax, possibly saving U.S. consumers as much as 18.4 cents a gallon.
Today in History: June 21, Constitution goes into effect
Today in History Today is Tuesday, June 21, the 172nd day of 2022. There are 193 days left in the year. Summer begins at 5:14 a.m. EDT.
Pharmacist Kaitlin Harring, left, administers a Moderna COVID-19 vaccination Monday to three year-old Fletcher Pack, while he sits on the lap of his mother, McKenzie Pack, at Walgreens pharmacy Monday in Lexington, South Carolina. Today marked the first day COVID-19 vaccinations were made available to children under 5 in the United States.
Shots for tots: COVID vaccinations start for little US kids
The nation's infants, toddlers and preschoolers are finally getting their chance at COVID-19 vaccination as the U.S. rolls out shots for tots this week. Shipments arrived in some locations over the weekend and some spots, including a Walgreens in South Carolina and another in New York City, opened up appointments for Monday.
Dawn breaks behind the stones during the Summer Solstice festivities at Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England, Tuesday, June 21, 2022. After two years of closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Stonehenge reopened Monday for the Summer Solstice celebrations. (Andrew Matthews/PA via AP)
Crowds mark summer solstice at ancient Stonehenge monument
Thousands of druids, pagans and New Age revelers have greeted the summer solstice at Stonehenge on the longest day of the northern hemisphere year
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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