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People fleeing the conflict in Ukraine cross the Moldova-Ukraine border checkpoint near the town of Palanca, on March 14, 2022, after Russia' military invasion of Ukraine. - The number of refugees who have fled Ukraine since the Russian invasion began on February 24 has topped 2.8 million, the United Nations said today. (Photo by GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP) (Photo by GIL COHEN-MAGEN/AFP via Getty Images)

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Demonstrators wave Ukraine national flags as they gather in central Kiev on October 6, 2019 to protest broader autonomy for separatist territories, part of a plan to end a war with Russian-backed fighters. Protesters chanted "No to surrender!", with some holding placards critical of President Volodymyr Zelensky in the crowd, which police said had swelled to around 10,000 people. Ukrainian, Russian and separatist negotiators agreed on a roadmap that envisages special status for separatist territories if they conduct free and fair elections under the Ukrainian constitution.

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A car burns at the side of the damaged by shelling maternity hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 9, 2022. A Russian attack has severely damaged a maternity hospital in the besieged port city of Mariupol, Ukrainian officials say. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

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Soviet customers stand in line outside the just opened first McDonald's in the Soviet Union on January 31, 1990 at Moscow's Pushkin Square. AFP PHOTO VITALY ARMAND (Photo by VITALY ARMAND / AFP) (Photo by VITALY ARMAND/AFP via Getty Images)

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addresses MPs in the British Parliament - House of Commons - via videolink on Tuesday March 8, 2022 in an historic event where he receives a standing ovation. We will continue fighting for our land, whatever the cost, Zelensky said. We will fight in the forests, on the shores, in the streets. The refrain echoed a line from a stirring speech by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill during World War II.

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Czech youngsters holding Czechoslovakian flags stand atop of an overturned truck as other Prague residents surround Soviet tanks in downtown Prague on Aug. 21, 1968, as a Soviet-led invasion by the Warsaw Pact armies crushed the so-called Prague Spring reform in former Czechoslovakia 30 years ago. (AP Photo/Libor Hajsky/CTK)

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BRUSSELS, BELGIUM - FEBRUARY 24: Finish Prime Minister Sanna Mirella Marin is talking to media as she arrives in the Europa, the EU Council headquarter for an EU Summit on the situation of the war in Ukraine on February 24, 2022 in Brussels, Belgium. The European Council demands that Russia immediately ceases its military actions, unconditionally withdraws all forces and military equipment from the entire territory of Ukraine and fully respects Ukraines territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence within its internationally recognised borders. (Photo by Thierry Monasse/Getty Images)

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KYIV UKRAINE - MARCH 03: People form a human chain to transfer supplies on March 3, 2022, in Kyiv, Ukraine. After 8 days of war since the beginning of the attacks in Ukraine by Russia, the balance of the war according to the latest information from both the Ukrainian government and UNHCR is at least 2,000 civilians dead and about one million refugees who have fled Ukraine. Russian and Ukrainian delegations have agreed on the establishment of humanitarian corridors for evacuation and delivery of food and medicine in the framework of the conflict and a possible temporary ceasefire. (Photo By Diego Herrera/Europa Press via Getty Images)

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Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (r), his wife Elke B'denbender (l), Gudni Thorlacius Johannesson (2nd from right), President of Iceland, and his wife Eliza Reid greet school children at the President's residence in Reykjavik, Iceland June 12, 2019.

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US President Joe Biden (R) speaks during a joint press conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 7, 2022.

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Ketanji Brown Jackson, nominee to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit, testifies during her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing in Dirksen Senate Office Building on April 28, 2021 in Washington, DC. Ketanji Brown Jackson, nominee to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit, and Candace Jackson-Akiwumi, nominee to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the Seventh Circuit, testified on the first panel.

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US President Donald Trump speaks to the media as he makes his way to board Air Force One before departing from Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on January 12, 2021. - Trump is traveling to Texas to review his border wall project. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

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ST LOUIS, MO - OCTOBER 09: Democratic presidential nominee former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton listens to a question during the town hall debate at Washington University on October 9, 2016 in St Louis, Missouri. This is the second of three presidential debates scheduled prior to the November 8th election. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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This photo illustration shows a person playing online word game "Wordle" on a mobile phone in Washington, DC on January 11, 2022. - Five letters, six attempts, and only one word per day: the formula for "Wordle" is simple, but for the past few weeks this online game has been stirring up social networks in the United States, and has since been adapted for a French-speaking audience. (Photo by Stefani Reynolds / AFP) (Photo by STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

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JERUSALEM, ISRAEL: (FILE PHOTO) Nazi war criminal Adolph Eichmann stands in a protective glass booth flanked by Israeli police during his trial April 5, 1961 in Jerusalem. The Israeli police donated Eichmann's original handprints, fingerprints and mugshot to Jerusalem's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial ahead of Israel's annual Holocaust remembrance day May 4, 2005 which this year also marks the 60th anniversary of the Nazi's World War II defeat in 1945. (Photo by GPO via Getty Images)

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CLYDE, OHIO - AUGUST 06: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to workers at a Whirlpool manufacturing facility on August 06, 2020 in Clyde, Ohio. Whirlpool is the last remaining major appliance company headquartered in the United States. With more than 3,000 employees, the Clyde facility is one of the world's largest home washing machine plants, producing more than 20,000 machines a day. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

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TOPSHOT - Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with his Azerbaijani counterpart at the Kremlin in Moscow on February 22, 2022. (Photo by Mikhail KLIMENTYEV / SPUTNIK / AFP) (Photo by MIKHAIL KLIMENTYEV/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images)

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Servicemen of the Ukrainian National Guard take positions in central Kyiv, after Russia launched a massive military operation against Ukraine, February 25, 2022. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

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US President Donald Trump (L) chats with Russia's President Vladimir Putin as they attend the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting, part of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders' summit in the central Vietnamese city of Danang on November 11, 2017. (Photo by Mikhail KLIMENTYEV / SPUTNIK / AFP) (Photo by MIKHAIL KLIMENTYEV/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images)

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A man wearing a face mask walks on a street in Manhattan of New York, the United States, Jan. 19, 2022. U.S. President Joe Biden's administration will start shipping 400 million free non-surgical N95 face masks to distribution sites nationwide this week as part of the efforts to fight the surging Omicron COVID-19 variant, USA Today on Wednesday quoted an official source as saying. (Photo by Wang Ying/Xinhua via Getty Images)

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Fontana, CA - February 17: Gov. Gavin Newsom announces the next phase of Californias COVID-19 response called SMARTER, during a press conference at the UPS Healthcare warehouse in Fontana on Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022. The plan is to move from the pandemic stage into an endemic stage in which people will learn to live COVID. (Photo by Watchara Phomicinda/MediaNews Group/The Press-Enterprise via Getty Images)

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BEIJING, CHINA - FEBRUARY 20: A firework display is seen inside the stadium alongside the Olympic rings during the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Closing Ceremony on Day 16 of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics at Beijing National Stadium on February 20, 2022 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Maja Hitij/Getty Images)

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KIEV, UKRAINE FEBRUARY 3, 2022: Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky looks on during a joint news conference with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan following their talks at the Mariinsky Palace. Zelensky and Erdogan have signed an agreement on a free trade zone. Irina Yakovleva/TASS (Photo by Irina Yakovleva\TASS via Getty Images)

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Supporters arrive at Parliament Hill for the Freedom Truck Convoy to protest against Covid-19 vaccine mandates and restrictions in Ottawa, Canada, on January 29, 2022. - Hundreds of truckers drove their giant rigs into the Canadian capital Ottawa on Saturday as part of a self-titled "Freedom Convoy" to protest vaccine mandates required to cross the US border. (Photo by Lars Hagberg / AFP) (Photo by LARS HAGBERG/AFP via Getty Images)

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JANUARY 26: Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders, who opposed the British fleet's arrival on January 26, 1788, to be celebrated as "Australia Day", organize a demonstration describing this date as "Invasion Day" in Melbourne, Australia on January 26, 2021. (Photo by Recep Sakar/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

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TEHRAN, Nov. 11, 2019 -- Laborers work at the construction site of the second phase of Iran's Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant in Bushehr, southern Iran, on Nov. 10, 2019. The concrete placement for the construction of the second phase of Iran's Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant started on Sunday. (Photo by Ahmad Halabisaz/Xinhua via Getty) (Xinhua/Ahmad Halabisaz via Getty Images)

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WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 29: An American flag waves outside the United States Capitol building as Congress remains gridlocked over legislation to continue funding the federal government September 29, 2013 in Washington, DC. The House of Representatives passed a continuing resolution with language to defund U.S. President Barack Obama's national health care plan yesterday, but Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has indicated the U.S. Senate will not consider the legislation as passed by the House. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

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FILE - Rioters loyal to President Donald Trump rally at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. A new poll shows that a year after the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, only about 4 in 10 Republicans recall the attack by supporters of former President Donald Trump as very violent or extremely violent. A new poll shows that a year after the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, only about 4 in 10 Republicans recall the attack by supporters of former President Donald Trump as very violent or extremely violent. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

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