RUSSIA: Moscow has placed Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas on a wanted list, an official register showed today, as tensions escalate with the West over Ukraine ahead of the second anniversary of the Russian invasion.

Ms Kallas’s name appeared on the Interior Ministry's register of people wanted in connection with criminal charges, the first time the ministry has put a foreign leader on any such list. The charges were not specified.

TURKEY: Nine workers are believed to be trapped underground after a landslide hit a gold mine in eastern Turkey today, officials said.

Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said nine workers at the Copler mine had not been heard from since the event, and that 400 search and rescue personnel were at the site, near the town of Ilic in Turkey’s mountainous Erzincan province.

LIBERIA: Liberia’s Defence Minister Prince Charles Johnson III resigned today following protests by wives of the country’s soldiers, who blame him for low wages and poor living conditions in military barracks.

The protests forced President Joseph Boakai to cancel National Army Day celebrations on Monday.

Mr Johnson was blamed for a reduction in the salaries of Liberian soldiers returning from peace missions in Mali. 

ARMENIA: Armenia and Azerbaijan have traded accusations over a border skirmish today in the eastern Syunik region that left at least four Armenian soldiers dead, escalating tensions between the two Caucasus neighbours.

Four Armenian soldiers were killed and one was wounded, the ministry said.

The ministry urged Azerbaijan to refrain from “destabilising” actions.