With voting under way in Azerbaijan's snap presidential election, there have been reports of irregularities, including busloads of voters traveling from one polling station to the next.
Azerbaijan's incumbent strongman Ilham Aliyev looks set to breeze to a fifth consecutive term as president, according to nearly complete results of a snap election criticized by watchdogs as being neither free nor fair.
With voting under way in Azerbaijan's snap presidential election, there have been reports of irregularities, including busloads of voters traveling from one polling station to the next.
Several hundred people gathered on January 19 in Ufa, the capital of Russia's Republic of Bashkortostan, in a show of support for activist Fail Alsynov, the banned Bashqort movement's ex-leader sentenced to four years in prison.
The U.S. launched new strikes against Huthi anti-ship missiles aimed at the Red Sea on January 18 as growing tensions in the region's sea lanes disrupted global trade and raised fears of supply bottlenecks that could reignite inflation.