Antigovernment protests in Serbia, held regularly for months, reached a boiling point on March 16 and 17 as demonstrators briefly occupied the state broadcaster and rallied outside the president's building. The protesters are calling for the resignation of President Aleksandar Vucic.
LGBT activists allege that a new antigay purge in Chechnya has led to at least two deaths by torture and the detention of around 40 people. The republic's information minister, Dzhambulat Umarov, says the "seeds of sodomy will not sprout" on the "blessed soil of the Caucasus."
U.S. President Donald Trump said there was a "growing humanitarian and security crisis" on his country's border with Mexico, in his first televised address from the Oval Office on January 8.
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople signed a decree on January 5 granting autocephaly, or independence, to the Orthodox Church in Ukraine, ending more than 330 years of Russian religious control in Ukraine.
For centuries, artisans have been making fine Persian rugs by hand in Kashan. Afghan migrants have become the heart of the industry, but as many leave Iran, the future of the craft is in doubt.
Bosnian Serb police detained several people in the city of Banka Luka on December 25 as protesters demanded answers in the case of the death of a young man, David Dragicevic. Suzana Radanovic, the mother of Dragicevic, faced off with police during the unrest.
Municipal authorities in the Montenegrin capital, Podgorica, unveiled a monument to the late Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito on December 19, the anniversary of the city's liberation from Nazi Germany by Tito's partisans in 1944.
Despite his own reputation for autocratic rule, Russian President Vladimir Putin said he was worried by what he described as democratic values falling apart in the "Anglo-Saxon world." Putin cited a lack of acceptance of the election of Donald Trump and the Brexit referendum.
Thousands of Hungarians have taken to the streets for several nights in a row, accusing the government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban of attacking the judiciary and passing what's being called a "slave law."
World leaders and other dignitaries gathered in Washington, D.C., on December 5 to pay their respects at the state funeral of President George Bush.
Serb nationalist Milorad Dodik has taken the helm of Bosnia-Herzegovina's three-part presidency, as the badly-riven Balkan country on November 20 in Sarajevo inaugurated a new leadership following general elections last month.
The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg ruled that Russian authorities' repeated arrests of opposition leader and anticorruption activist Aleksei Navalny have been politically motivated.
Four men dressed up in a yellow cardboard bus costume to protest a ban on pedestrians on a bridge in the Russian city of Vladivostok.
French President Emmanuel Macron led tributes to the millions of soldiers who died during World War I, in a ceremony attended by dozens of world leaders.
The White House has suspended the press credentials of a CNN reporter after a heated exchange with U.S. President Donald Trump.
U.S. President Donald Trump called an investigation into whether his 2016 campaign engaged in collusion with Russia a "hoax."
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