Police free all 14 hostages held at Georgia bank

Tbilisi, Sept 20 (AFP/APP): Police in Georgia on Tuesday freed 14 hostages who were held by an armed man at a bank in the country’s second-largest city of Kutaisi, officials said. “All the 14 hostages were freed and the hostage-taker arrested,” the Black Sea nation’s […]

In the Ukrainian army, Soviet-era artillery bows out

Mykolaiv, Ukraine, Sept 20 (AFP/APP): Lurking in a gulley in a Ukrainian forest grove, the ageing Soviet-era Akatsiya 2S3 howitzer may be advanced in years but is not being retired just yet. Ukraine’s army prefers more efficient Western weapons, but it was forced to deploy […]

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