HONG KONG — A court in China’s western region of Xinjiang sentenced three people to death Monday for organizing a terrorist plot that targeted Tiananmen Square in China’s capital last October. The speedy trial ended with prison terms for another five people and is part of a crackdown against terrorism in one of the country’s most […]
Russian energy giant Gazprom says it is cutting gas supplies to Ukraine following Kyiv’s failure to meet a Monday deadline to pay nearly $2 billion of its outstanding debt.Gazprom says Ukraine must now pre-pay for any natural gas after missing the deadline.Also Monday, Gazprom filed a lawsuit in a Stockholm arbitration court to try […]
Islamist militants, advancing across parts of northern Iraqi, have seized the city of Tikrit and forced as many as 500,000 people to flee.Iraqi security officials said the Sunni militants, who on Tuesday overran the city of Mosul, pushed southward on Wednesday, taking control of Iraq’s biggest oil refinery and of Tikrit, fallen dictator Saddam […]
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has ordered officials to create corridors to allow people in eastern Ukraine to escape areas that have seen months of fighting and safely move to other parts of the country. The president announced the move Tuesday, saying he wanted to “avoid new victims” as Ukrainian forces battle to regain control of […]