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MacKenzie Scott donates $436 million to Habitat for Humanity

This photo provided by Habitat for Humanity International shows volunteers for Habitat for Humanity International, work on a house at the Carter Work Project in Nashville in 2019.

MacKenzie Scott donated $436 million to Habitat for Humanity International and 84 of its U.S. affiliates – the largest publicly disclosed donation from the billionaire philanthropist since she pledged to give away the majority of her wealth in 2019.

MacKenzie Scott has donated $436 million to Habitat for Humanity International and 84 of its U.S. affiliates — the largest publicly disclosed donation from the billionaire philanthropist since she pledged in 2019 to give away the majority of her wealth.

His group received $25 million from Scott and her husband, Dan Jewett, with the remaining $411 million to be distributed among Habitat’s local affiliates.

Scott’s donation amounts to nearly 8% of the $325 million in donations that Habitat for Humanity International received in its 2020 fiscal year. »

Kremlin insists it is not killing Ukrainian civilians but "helping" them

Authored by pravda.com.ua

According to the Kremlin, the Russian military is not shooting at Ukrainian civilians but helping them.

Details: Peskov said he "does not believe" the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office with regard to their information that the Russians are killing civilians.

He came up with another story about "Ukrainian nationalists" using civilians in cities as "human shields". »

Opinion : Israel’s semi-neutrality on Ukraine can’t last

Authored by washingtonpost.com

Bennett is an Orthodox Jew, for whom the one justification for traveling on the Sabbath is possibly saving human life.

I have many doubts about both men, but I’m certain they wouldn’t have flown on Shabbat without that hope.

Svetlova also says she is concerned Israel looks at the war in Ukraine “as something … not next to [Israel’s] borders.” »

‘We’re going back to a USSR’: long queues return for Russian shoppers as sanctions bite

Authored by theguardian.com

It feels like a month ago was fine and now we’re talking about the 1990s again, buying products because … we’re afraid they’ll disappear.”.

After an hour and a half waiting at the city’s main square, he was limited to buying one bag of five kilograms, he said.

As Russian troops pressed forward in Ukraine, stores in some big cities have reported shortages of essential products such as tampons. »

Putin's foreign minister says freezing Russia's currency reserves was 'thievery' and that the Kremlin didn't expect such harsh sanctions

Authored by businessinsider.com

Putin's foreign minister called the freezing of Russia's currency reserves "thievery.".

He added: "Nobody who was predicting what sanctions the West would pass could have pictured that.".

Russia's foreign minister called the freezing of Russia's currency reserves in light of its invasion of Ukraine "thievery" and said the country did not expect that level of sanctions. »