Inside a quiet restaurant in western Ukraine, displaced baker Olena trailed a wax-covered needle over a boiled egg to send a message to a soldier fighting the Russians. “Glory to Ukraine,” the 50-year-vintage from the southern port town of Odesa wrote, before dipping the Easter egg in blue ink. She held the egg over a … Read more
Georgia’s jailed former president Mikheil Saakashvili has been subjected to “torture” via being denied good enough medical remedy after staging an extended hunger strike, his attorneys informed a court on Wednesday. The seasoned-Western opposition chief, who headed the small Caucasus country from 2004 to 2013, become jailed in October, days after secretly getting back from … Read more
METZ: Former tennis world No 1 Andy Murray came back from a set down and under pressure at 3-3 in the second set to beat sixth-seeded Frenchman Ugo Humbert in the first round of the Moselle Open in Metz on Tuesday. The Scot, 34, won seven straight games en route to a 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 … Read more
