By David McBrayer Ukraine’s second city Kharkiv was hit by more deadly shelling on Saturday while Ukrainian forces made some gains in the surrounding region as Washington slammed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “depravity”. Although Ukraine has retained control of Kharkiv, the city has been repeatedly battered by Moscow’s forces and still faces daily attacks. One […]
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 Agence France-Presse A Russian national operating alongside Malian soldiers was killed on Tuesday by a roadside bomb in the centre of the conflict-torn Sahel state, an army document and officials said. A Malian army unit accompanied by a “Russian advisor” struck an improvised explosive device near the town of Hombori, according to a military […]