U.N. General Assembly holds meeting on Russia war ahead of 1st anniv.

The U.N. General Assembly convened an emergency session Wednesday in an effort to adopt a resolution urging Russia to halt its offensives in Ukraine.The extraordinary high-level meeting of the 193-member assembly, which was requested by 11 countries including Japan as well as the European Union, comes before the first anniversary of the Russian invasion of its neighboring country."Invasion is an affront to our collective conscience," U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres said in a speech to the assembly. "It is a violation of the United Nations Charter and international law.""Ukrainians, …READ FULL ARTICLE