US bans Russian energy imports, McDonald's closes restaurants

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Oil tanks in the Transneft-Kozmino Port near the far eastern Russian town of Nakhodka. File photo: Reuters

US President Joe Biden has banned Russian oil and other energy imports to the United States, piling pressure on Russian leader Vladimir Putin to halt his devastating assault on Ukraine, but an effort to evacuate civilians from the besieged port city of Mariupol failed.

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