MOSCOW / AP The Russian military on Sunday rejected the Pentagon’s accusations that it had deliberately targeted US-backed Syrian opposition forces, arguing the US had failed to warn about their locations. Russian Defense Ministry spokesman, Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov, said the area targeted in the strike was more than 300 kilometers away from locations earlier designated by the US …

  London / AFP WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange starts his fifth year camped out in the Ecuadoran embassy in London on Sunday, an occasion his supporters intend to mark with events celebrating whistleblowers. Supporters said they were planning to stage songs, speeches and readings in several European cities. Assange, 44, is wanted for questioning over a 2010 rape allegation in …

  BEIJING / AP Residents in a village in southern China where police have been deployed took to the streets on Sunday to protest the detention of the village’s democratically elected leader and historic seizures of land. The protests in Wukan come nearly five years after an uprising there made the fishing village in Guangdong province, next to Hong Kong, an …