Defiant Ukrainian pilot vows to continue hunger strike

A Ukrainian military helicopter pilot on trial in Russia over the killing of two journalists defiantly raised her middle finger at the court on Wednesday and vowed to press on with a hunger strike. Nadiya Savchenko's high-profile case has raised deep concern in the West and in Kiev, where the government denounced the trial as a "farce" and demanded her immediate release. "I will continue my dry hunger strike," the 34-year-old said in her final address to the court in the small Russian town of Do