Born in Chicago and raised in New Jersey, Patti Smith has lived an incomparable life as a poet and performer. Known as “the punk poet laureate,” she’s in the Rock Hall of Fame and won a National Book Award.
WAR IN UKRAINE - The USA will send
ammo and military vehicle to Ukraine as part of a new assistance package worth
725 million USD, meant to help Kyiv fend off the Russian invasion, the US
Department of Defense has announced. Saudi Arabia will also send to Ukraine
humanitarian aid worth 400 million USD. Crown prince Mohammed bin Salman told
Ukraine s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, that his country is willing to
continue its efforts to mediate a truce between Kyiv and Moscow. On the ground,
Ukrainian investigators have exhumed Ukrainian military buried in one of the
two mass graves discovered in the wake of the Russian withdrawal from Lyman,
eastern Donetsk. Meanwhile, a power plant in Belgorod, Russia caught fire in
what the regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov has described as a Ukrainian
attack.
REFUGEES - According to the
Romanian Border Police Inspectorate, some 96 thousand people entered Romania,
of whom 8,800 were Ukrainian nationals, representing a 7% incr
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Dancehall megastar Shaggy made history yet again, taking Jamaican culture to the Vatican City for Christmas Eve, where he was the only solo act from the