By GRANT PECK / AP BANGKOK — A court in military-ruled Myanmar convicted the country’s former leader Aung San Suu Kyi of corruption and sentenced her to five years in prison Wednesday in the first of several corruption cases against her. Suu Kyi, who was ousted by an army takeover last year, had denied the […]
By Mohammad Shoaib Amin / AP KABUL, Afghanistan — Explosions targeting educational institutions killed at least six people, including students, and wounded 17 Tuesday in a mostly Shiite neighborhood of Afghanistan’s capital city, police said. The blasts, which happened in rapid succession, were being investigated and more casualties were feared, according to Kabul police spokesman […]
By Adam Schreck and Mstyslav Chernov/AP (KYIV, Ukraine) — Ukrainian fighters who were holed up in a massive steel plant in the last known pocket of resistance inside the shattered city of Mariupol ignored a surrender-or-die ultimatum from Russia on Sunday and held out against the capture of the strategically vital port. The fall of […]