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NEW YORK, February 24. /TASS/: The United States will announce a new package of military aid to Ukraine worth $2 billion on Friday, CNN reported.

A vast portion of funds will be used to finance production of munitions in the United States, the report says.

The list of military equipment to be delivered to Ukraine, published by the broadcaster, does not include fighter jets which Kiev has been requesting.

NEW YORK, Feb 24 (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors on Friday said they were seeking to forfeit six properties in New York and Florida allegedly belonging to a sanctioned Russian oligarch, and separately charged a Russian national with illegally exporting counterintelligence equipment.

23 Feb 2023; MEMO: One of the daughters of Malcolm X (Malik El-Shabazz), Dr Ilyasah Shabazz is planning to file a wrongful death lawsuit against the FBI, CIA, New York City Police Department (NYPD) and other agencies over his assassination.

UNITED NATIONS, Feb. 22 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Wednesday that an escalation of the conflict in Ukraine is "a clear and present danger."

"Over the past year, not only have we seen suffering and devastation grow, it is also becoming more evident just how much worse it could all still become. The possible consequences of a spiraling conflict are a clear and present danger," he told a resumed emergency special session of the UN General Assembly.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Ukraine’s foreign minister on Wednesday urged the world’s nations as the anniversary of Russia’s invasion nears to prove they stand for the United Nations Charter and vote in favor of a U.N. resolution calling for a peace that ensures his war-ravaged country’s “sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity.”

Dmytro Kuleba told an emergency special session of the U.N. General Assembly that despite Moscow’s “empty calls” for negotiations, “Russia still wants to destroy Ukraine as a nation.”

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Ukraine’s first lady Olena Zelenska gave a video tour of human rights violations in the country following Russia’s invasion almost a year ago, telling a U.N. meeting Wednesday: “We have the right to live free, not to be killed or tortured.”

UNITED NATIONS, Feb 22 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The UN General Assembly meets Wednesday, two days ahead of the anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with Kyiv and its allies hoping to garner broad support for a resolution calling for a “just and lasting peace.”

The draft resolution, sponsored by some 60 countries, is to be voted on after the close of debate — not expected until at least Thursday.

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are holding relatively steady on Wall Street Wednesday, firming a bit a day after falling to their worst loss since December on worries about higher interest rates.

The S&P 500 was 0.3% higher in early trading. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 59 points, or 0.2%, at 33,188, as of 9:45 a.m. Eastern time, while the Nasdaq composite was 0.6% higher.

20 Feb 2023; MEMO: The UN Security Council issued a formal statement on Monday denouncing Israel's plan to expand settlements on Occupied Palestinian Territory, the first action the United States has allowed the body to take against its ally, Israel, in six years, Reuters reports.

21 Feb 2023; MEMO: A US judge, on Tuesday, said victims of the September 11, 2001, attacks are not entitled to seize billions of dollars of assets belonging to Afghanistan's Central Bank to satisfy court judgments they obtained against the Taliban, Reuters reports.