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Give Me a Sign

In South Africa, a young lion cub turns a road sign into his scratching post.
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Cat’s Out of the Bag

Stepan, who lives in Kharkiv, Ukraine, has urged his millions of social media followers to call for peace.

According to the United Nations, more than 3.5 million Ukrainians have fled their country since Russia launched its stalled but brutal invasion last month. Every refugee surely has an important story to tell, but one has been getting quite a bit more attention than most. That’s because he’s a cat with 1.2 million followers on Instagram and nearly as many on TikTok.

Stepan is his name. A 13-year-old brown and black tabby, Stepan who used to live with his owner, known to followers simply as Anna, in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.