March 3, 2023: Murdaugh faces possible life sentence, Blinken, Lavrov exchange, Belarus jails Nobel Peace Prize winner, Bakhmut, Greece

1. Richard "Alex" Murdaugh, the disgraced South Carolina lawyer who was found guilty of killing his wife and son, was sentenced to life in prison on Friday.

2. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused the United States of hypocrisy after U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Russia cannot be allowed to wage war in Ukraine with impunity, during a security forum they attended in New Delhi.

3. Nobel Peace Prize winner and human rights activist Ales Bialiatski was sentenced to 10 years in prison by a court in his native Belarus which found him guilty of financing protests in a ruling condemned by Germany as a “farce”.

4. Russian troops and mercenaries rained artillery on the last access routes to the besieged Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, bringing Moscow closer to its first major victory in half a year after the bloodiest fighting of the war.

5. Next to a hospital in Larissa, Panos and Mirela Routsi well up with tears as they beg for news of their 22-year old son Denis, who had travelled to Athens to see friends and was returning home in the train that never reached its destination.

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