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WASHINGTON – The United States said Friday that it has cancelled planned talks in Doha with the Taliban after the hardline Islamist rulers of Afghanistan shut girls  secondary schools. “We have cancelled some of our engagements, including planned meetings in Doha around the Doha Forum, and have made clear that we see this decision as a potential turning point in our engagement,” State Department deputy spokeswoman Jalina Porter said. The Taliban, which seized power in August and is eager for international recognition, shut down girls  secondary schools this week just…

LONDON  – Western officials on Friday named seven Russian generals they said had so far been killed, and another who had been sacked, during the war in Ukraine. The latest to die, Lieutenant General Yakov Rezanstev, was a commander of Russia s 49th Combined Arms Army in its southern military district, an official disclosed. Meanwhile, Russian Army Commander General Vlaislav Yershov, of the 6th Combined Arms Army, was identified as the general sacked earlier this week by the Kremlin. It has been reported his abrupt dismissal was due to the heavy…

RZESZOW – US President Joe Biden on Friday compared Russia s invasion of Ukraine to China s crushing of protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989, speaking during a visit to Poland near the border with Ukraine. Biden also referred to Russian President Vladimir Putin as “a man who, quite frankly, I think is a war criminal”, adding: “And I think we ll meet the legal definition of that as well.” Biden spoke at meetings with US soldiers stationed in Poland close to the border and with aid workers helping to deal…

KYIV  – Russia signaled Friday it may dial back its war aims to focus on eastern Ukraine after failing to break the nation s resistance in a month of fighting and attacks on civilians, including up to 300 feared killed in the bombing of a theatre. The possible shift came as President Joe Biden visited elite US troops serving with NATO just across the border in Poland and France s Emmanuel Macron proposed an internationally backed evacuation of civilians trapped in the bombarded city of Mariupol. Russian President Vladimir Putin had…

–Website launched highlighting the vision and featured interviews with prominent performers and artists– Englewood (New Jersey): Imagine a public high school for the arts serving all of Bergen County. The Advisors & Supporters, a community based, grassroots group in Englewood, New Jersey, is exploring the possibility of developing a public high school for the arts in the 115-year-old Russell C. Major Liberty School, an architecturally distinguished building located on the historic Five Corners site in the city’s downtown district. The group launched a website, LibertySchoolfortheArts.org, to imagine this vision featuring…