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Discovered more than a century ago in South Sudan, excelsa coffee is exciting cash-strapped locals and drawing interest from the international community amid

In Kyiv, residents expressed a mixture of hope and despondency at the latest peace efforts.Putin doesn’t want a truce to halt the war, because “it will mean that he has lost,” Antonina Metko, 43, told The Associated Press. “That is why they are postponing it. And everything will continue in the same way. Unfortunately.”

Vladyslav Nehrybetskyi, 72, was more upbeat, saying that “the seeds” of a peace agreement are being sown, even though “a difficult process” lies ahead. “So let’s hope.”Ukraine’s government has tried to keep up the momentum for a peace deal started by the Trump administration.“Ukraine wants to end this war and is doing everything for this,” Zelenskyy said on Telegram. “We expect appropriate steps from Russia.”

The Ukrainian leader said that he told Pope Leo XIV about peace efforts during his first phone conversation with the new pontiff.Ukraine is counting on the Vatican’s help in securing the return of thousands of children that the government says have been deported by Russia, Zelenskyy said, adding that he had invited the pope to visit Ukraine.

as pontiff, Leo called for a genuine and just peace in Ukraine.

“I carry in my heart the sufferings of the beloved Ukrainian people,” he said.“I quickly accepted the fact that my leg was gone. What’s the point of mourning? Crying and worrying won’t bring it back,” he says. By May 2024, he was back in uniform, describing the feeling as “returning home.” Vysotskyi now commands a team operating heavy drones for nighttime missions.

“For personal confidence in life, you need to come out of this not as someone broken by the war and written off, but as someone they tried to break — but couldn’t. You came back, proved you could still do something, and you’ll step away only when you decide to,” he says.In the fall of 2023, Zhalinskyi, 34, was still in the infantry when an artillery strike hit his position, severing his arm. He was the only one who survived from his group.

When he returned to the army, he embarked on the new role of navigator on evacuation missions, and he now maps routes, evaluates missions, and finds the safest paths to evacuate the infantry, allowing the driver to focus solely on the road.Ukrainian soldier Oleksandr Zhalinskyi of the Azov brigade, who lost his right arm in battle, poses for photo in Donetsk region, Ukraine, Jan. 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)