Mikalai Haurylau, a writer and war correspondent from Minsk, knows what it means to be pushed to the edge. For four days in September 2026, he made his way out of the Krasnyi Lyman area in eastern Ukraine, a broken landscape of trenches, burned fields, and constant thunder. Haurylau is not a soldier. He is a humanitarian volunteer, connected to the Saint Elisabeth Convent, and his self-appointed work is to deliver food, medicine, and encouragement to Russian soldiers and civilians trapped in a war that refuses to stop. On September 19, the convent published his account on Telegram, a testimony…

In a Hong Kong courtroom, a young banker’s promising career came to a very public end. Lam Chun-yin, 32, a former customer relationship manager at China Construction Bank (Asia), had been living with a terrible secret: he had falsely authenticated letters of credit worth more than $1.6 billion, and in return he had accepted cryptocurrency bribes worth over $470,000. When he pleaded guilty in District Court, the outcome was all but certain, but the sentence still landed heavily. Judge Ernest Lin Kam-hung did not treat him as a youthful offender deserving of mercy. Instead, he said that deterrent sentences are…