AP News Digest 3:20 am

Tuesday 26 April 2022 01:57 EDT

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TOP STORIES

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RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR — Russia’s top diplomat warned Ukraine against provoking World War III and said the threat of a nuclear conflict “should not be underestimated” as his country unleashed attacks against rail and fuel installations far from the front lines of Moscow’s new eastern offensive. Meanwhile, the British Defense Ministry said that Russian forces had taken the Ukrainian city of Kreminna in the Lukansk region after days of street-to-street fighting. By David Keyton and Jon Gambrell. SENT: 1,290 words, photos, videos. With RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR-THE LATEST.

RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR-WESTERN ARMS — The longer Ukraine’s army fends off the invading Russians, the more it absorbs the advantages of Western weaponry and training. Military experts say that’s exactly the transformation President Vladimir Putin wanted to prevent by invading Ukraine in the first place. By National Security Writer Robert Burns. SENT: 840 words, photos. For full coverage.

MUSK-TWITTER — Tesla CEO Elon Musk stands to be the next owner of Twitter, having pledged roughly $44 billion to buy the social platform and take it private. Assuming that happens, next up on his agenda will be planning how to fulfill his promises to develop new Twitter features, open its algorithm to public inspection and defeat “spambots” on the service that mimic real users. By Business Writers Tom Krisher and Matt O’Brien. SENT: 1,030 words, photos, videos.

SUPREME COURT-ASYLUM-WAITING IN MEXICO — The Biden administration is seeking the Supreme Court’s go-ahead to end a controversial Trump-era immigration program that forces some people seeking asylum in the U.S. to wait in Mexico for their hearings. By Mark Sherman. SENT: 470 words, photo. UPCOMING: Arguments at 10 a.m.

KOREAS-TENSIONS — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed to bolster his nuclear forces at “maximum speed” and threatened to use them if provoked in a speech he delivered during a military parade that featured powerful weapons systems targeting the United States and its allies, state media reported. By Kim Tong-Hyung and Hyung-Jin Kim. SENT: 790 words, photos.

VIRUS-OUTBREAK-CHINA — China’s capital Beijing is enforcing mass testing and closing down access to neighborhoods as it seeks to contain a new COVID-19 outbreak. Announcement of the testing had sparked panic buying in the city of 21 million, but the situation appeared to calm with public transport largely keeping to normal schedules and roads packed with commuters. SENT: 250 words, photos.

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