Officials say 2,500 have perished since Russian forces poured across the Ukrainian border on February 24. About 35,000 people are believed to have escaped in recent days, many on foot and under Russian fire, but 300,000 remain.

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A week after the alleged attack, the former beauty queen and Alabama reunited for a sweet Instagram selfie after months of back-and-forth last year about Shanna’s lack of hands-on parenting compared to Travis. 

The clip is edited to look like it appeared on a CNN broadcast, showing a black toddler running away from a white child, with a fake CNN breaking news caption reading: ‘Terrified todler (sic) runs from racist baby.’

The Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation’s second-largest public school district in the nation, announced Friday that it will lift face-covering requirements for students and staff – a day after New York City’s health commissioner said children under five will be masked ‘indefinitely’ at school. 

Passing twisted trees, blackened homes and abandoned vehicles, the mother appears to clutch the hand of her child, perhaps fearful that another deadly barrage of Russian shells or rockets is seconds away.

Shelling has hampered efforts to rescue hundreds of civilians, including women and children, who are believed trapped in the bombed ruins of the Drama Theatre, destroyed by a Russian air strike on Wednesday despite the word ‘Children’ being clearly written on the square outside to alert pilots.

In May, Twitter placed fact-checking labels on two tweets from Mr Trump’s personal account which made claims about fraud in US postal voting, as well as hiding a post about protests in the city of Minneapolis after Mr Floyd’s death.

Can you guys stop painting her out to be an amazing mom?’ Alabama said online last May. ‘Did your moms ask to see you on Mother’s Day [because] mine didn’t? I’m done keeping it a secret, reality shows.’

‘My family was in the bomb shelter of High School No 2. Three days ago a shell shattered some of the windows. A woman was wounded in her hip. She laid all night on the first floor asking for someone to give her poison so that she would not feel the pain.’

Most California school districts lifted their masks mandates earlier this week, although San Diego Unified School District will wait to drop their mandate until students return from spring break on April 4.

It then claims to reveal ‘what actually happened’, showing the original version of events where the pair are playing – the way CNN had reported it – before accusing ‘fake news’ of being the root cause of problems in America.

The Change.org appeal says: ‘Everyone is allowed free speech, you may not like what others have to say or you may love it but Katie Hopkins was the voice for many other who supported what she has to say that don’t have the platform to be heard.

Where will it hit? There is no food, no medicine. When there will be no more snow people won’t be able to go out for water. The dead are not taken out. The police recommend to open the windows and put the corpses on the balcony.’

Meanwhile, although New York City lifted its indoor mask mandate on March 7, newly-minted health commissioner Dr. Ashwin Vasan said Friday that masking public school children under five in the city is ‘indefinite at this point.’

‘People who have tried to predict what’s going to happen in the future in this pandemic have repeatedly found egg on their face, as they say, and I’m not going to do that here today,’ he said at a COVID briefing in Queens on Friday.   

However, the tech giant did remove campaign adverts by Mr Trump and vice president Mike Pence that featured an upside-down red triangle – a Nazi symbol used to designate political prisoners in concentration camps. 

According to Twitter’s website, that policy prohibits promoting violence against or directly attacking or threatening people based on race, ethnicity, national origin, caste, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religion, age, disability or serious disease.  

While masks will no longer be required inside Los Angeles Unified School District buildings, students and staff will receive PCR tests through the end of the school year, and at-home rapid COVID tests will be provided to students and staff ‘for baseline testing prior to the beginning of the 2022 Spring break’

Ukrainian MP Dmytro Gorin, whose parents are trapped in the city, said the Russians have dropped hundreds of bombs on the city and that conditions are medieval, adding: ‘People are out of food and, more importantly, out of water.’

As Russia’s defence ministry said its forces were ‘tightening the noose’ around the city, a woman called Svitlana gave a harrowing account of her flight from the city – and the horrors faced by those who have chosen, or been forced, to stay.