Five teenagers with a Hong Kong group advocating independence from Chinese rule were ordered by a judge on Saturday to serve up to three years in detention at a correctional facility, for urging an “armed revolution” in a national security case. The five, some of whom were minors aged between 15 and 18 at the… Read More Hfong Kong judge sentences five teenagers in national security case
Russian divers were to examine on Sunday the damage left by a powerful blast on a road-and-rail bridge to Crimea that is a prestigious symbol of Moscow’s annexation of the peninsula and a key supply route to forces battling in southern Ukraine. Saturday’s explosion on the bridge over the Kerch Strait prompted gleeful messages from… Read More Powerful blast damages Crimea’s Kerch bridge
Russia’s Defence Ministry on Saturday named Air Force General Sergei Surovikin as the overall commander of Russian forces fighting in Ukraine, Moscow’s third senior military appointment in the space of a week. The change follows the reported sacking earlier this week of the commanders of two of Russia’s five military regions, as its forces have… Read More Russia names Air Force General Sergei Surovikin as commander of its forces in Ukraine
Ten people, including two teenagers and a younger girl, were killed in an explosion at a petrol station in the Irish county of Donegal, police said on Saturday, adding that the incident appeared to be “a tragic accident”. The police said no more casualties were expected from the explosion which happened shortly after 3 p.m.… Read More Ten dead following explosion at petrol station in Ireland
North Korea fired two ballistic missiles early on Sunday, authorities in neighbouring countries said, the seventh such launch by Pyongyang in recent days that added to widespread alarm in Washington and its allies in Tokyo and Seoul. Officials in the South Korean capital have said the uptick in the North’s missile launches could signal it… Read More North Korea keeps up its recent series of launches as it fires two ballistic missiles
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