April 5, 2022: Russia war crimes, Bucha, Zelenskiy U.N. address, SC nominee Jackson, Obama, COVID

April 5, 2022: Russia sanctions, Zelenskiy to address U.N. Security Council, Supreme Court nominee Jackson. Obama returns to White House, COVID

1. The flow of "bloody money" to Russia must stop, Kyiv's mayor said on Tuesday as the West prepared new sanctions on Moscow after dead civilians were found lining the streets of a Ukrainian town seized from Russian invaders.

2. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he would address the U.N. Security Council and predicted further, worse instances of mass killings of civilians by Russian troops would be discovered.

3. U.S. Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson secured the support of two more Senate Republicans on Monday, as she cleared a procedural hurdle toward becoming the first Black woman to serve on the nation's top judicial body.

4. Former President Barack Obama will return to the White House for the first time since leaving office in 2017 to tout the benefits of his signature healthcare law and offer backing to his friend and former governing partner, President Joe Biden.

5. Chinese authorities extended a lockdown in Shanghai to cover all of the financial centre's 26 million people after city-wide testing saw new COVID-19 cases surge to more than 13,000 amid growing public anger over quarantine rules.

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