A court in southern Kazakhstan has reduced the sentence of noted dissident Ermek Narymbaev (aka Narymbai), rejecting rulings from lower courts that refused to grant him an early release.
Romanian Labor Minister Marius Budai is resigning after being accused that he ignored a warning about abusive treatment meted out to elderly and disabled people in a complex of private retirement homes in a town on the outskirts of Bucharest, Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu said on July 13.
U.S. President Joe Biden says he’s serious about pursuing a prisoner exchange for a Wall Street Journal reporter who has been detained in Russia for more than 100 days.