Protesters have clashed with police in and outside of Georgia's parliament as lawmakers took up a controversial "foreign agents" law that critics say will harm press freedom and push the country toward authoritarianism.
A court in Minsk has sentenced Belarusian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Byalyatski to 10 years in prison on smuggling and tax-evasion charges that rights defenders and Western governments have called politically motivated retribution by longtime authoritarian ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka.
Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder won't be sanctioned by his political party because of his ties with Russian state-owned companies, local media reported on March 2.
TBILISI Protesters clashed with police in and outside of Georgia's parliament, as lawmakers took up a controversial "foreign agents" law that critics say will harm press freedoms and push the country toward authoritarianism.
Police detained at least 4 protesters in the demonstration March.
The UN nuclear watchdog says its chief, Rafael Grossi, will travel to Iran for "high-level meetings" as diplomats say he wants to jolt Tehran into cooperating with an investigation into uranium traces found at undeclared sites.