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The world in focus, as seen by a Canadian leading global affairs analyst, writer and speaker, in his review of international media.

At least six people have been injured as a result of an overnight Russian drone attack on Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv and central Dnipropetrovsk regions, according to regional officials.

Pakistan experienced its "wettest April since 1961," receiving more than twice as much rain as usual for the month, the country's weather agency said.

Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province plans to spend more than $25 million to boost security efforts in the restive region.

In an unusual move, a court in Russia's North Caucasus region of Kabardino-Balkaria acquitted a Jehovah's Witness in an extremism case.

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Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on May 3 that its officers had "liquidated" an agent from Ukraine's military intelligence who had allegedly arrived from Lithuania to carry out "terrorist acts" against military and energy objects in the Moscow and Leningrad regions.

A military court in Russia's Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk on May 3 sentenced anti-war activist Angel Nikolayev to 15 years in prison on a charge of arson against a military recruitment center, desecration of Russia's national flag, and vandalism.

Captain Eduard Ulman of Russia's military intelligence, who was sentenced in absentia to 14 years in prison for shooting to death six Chechen civilians in 2002, has been killed in the war in Ukraine.

Suppression of press freedom has been on the rise over the past year in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, where governments with increasingly authoritarian tendencies have taken after Russia's example, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said in their annual media world ranking published on May 3.