Remains of more than 1,000 Holocaust victims were laid to rest in a solemn ceremony in the city of Brest in Belarus. The remains, discovered in a construction site in January, were buried in coffins covered with the Star of David on May 22.
Relatives have held funerals for some of the victims of a May 19 riot at a prison in Vahdat, east of the Tajik capital, Dushanbe. Interior Ministry officials said the violence left 29 inmates and three guards dead, though other sources put the death toll much higher.
Flaka Muriqi was born during the 1998-99 Kosovo war. She was separated from her parents and could have been lost. But a distant relative tattooed her foot so she could later find her and return her to her parents. Twenty years later, Muriqi has now been reunited with the relative who helped her.
A Ukrainian woman who spent years running a kindergarten has turned her passion for rapping into a new career.
Supporters responded to Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian's call for a blockade of courthouses after a former president was released from detention. One judge still tried to get into work -- through a window.
Hundreds of people in a Pakistani village have allegedly been infected with HIV by a doctor using contaminated syringes. Officials say over 400 people, many of them children, have tested positive. Experts are blaming unsanitary equipment and malpractice for a surge in infection rates in the country.
Thousands of people joined the 24th-straight weekly march against the Serbian government in Belgrade on May 18. The march led participants to a satirical outdoor exhibition highlighting controversial cases in which the ruling Serbian Progressive Party was implicated.
Georgian voters are heading to the polls on May 19 to elect one parliament member and mayors and city councils in some cities. Among early voters in the by-elections in the capital, Tbilisi, was billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, a former prime minister and leads the ruling Georgian Dream party.
Voters in the Georgian city of Zugdidi are electing a mayor in a heated atmosphere on May 19. Bodyguards and police had to push away angry supporters of the ruling Georgian Dream party as they confronted Nika Gvaramia, the director of Rustavi-2 television.
Polling stations are open for a mayoral snap election in the predominantly ethnic Serb northern part of Kosovo's town of Mitrovica on May 19. Residents of other Serb municipalities in Kosovo -- Zvecan, Leposavic, and Zubin Potok -- are also electing new mayors.
A Chechen man helps Russians locate and repair their family graves in Grozny's war-scarred and neglected Christian cemetery.
The Russian city of Dzerzhinsk, a hub for the chemical industry, is also home to one of the most polluted dump sites in the world. A complex cleanup project is under way to try to make the contaminated land usable again.
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