A court has convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment a Russian soldier who shot two civilians in the back near the village of Mriia in Kyiv Oblast. Source: Kyiv Oblast Prosecutor's Office; Ukrainska Pravda Details: The court found a senior lieutenant of the 5th Separate Guards Tank Brigade of the Russian Armed Forces guilty of violating the laws and customs of war, combined with deliberate homicide.
The Washington Post unpublished an editorial cartoon this week that drew criticism for racist imagery. In a note to readers Wednesday, Opinion Editor David Shipley said the cartoon in question “was seen by many readers as racist.” “This was not my intent,” Shipley wrote. “I saw the drawing as a caricature of a specific individual,…
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As Myanmar’s military celebrated the annual Armed Forces Day holiday with a parade Saturday in the country's capital, soldiers and police elsewhere killed scores of people while suppressing protests in the deadliest bloodletting since last month's coup. The online news site Myanmar Now reported late Saturday that the death toll had reached 114. A count issued by an independent researcher in Yangon who has been compiling near-real time death tolls put the total at 107, spread over more than two d