Egyptian demonstrators gathered at Tahrir Square in Cairo for a sixth day of angry revolt against President Hosni Mubarak's regime amid increasing lawlessness, a rising death toll, and a spate of jail breaks.
Military forces have deployed on the streets of Cairo as thousands of antigovernment protesters clashed with police in the most violent scenes yet in the challenge to President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule.
Orthodox Christians mark the Epiphany and Shi'a Muslims mark the Arbain festival.
Anna Chapman is making her TV debut "solving the world's most complicated mysteries." But for the in-demand Russian agent, at least one mystery is already solved -- what to do when that spy gig doesn't work out.
The attempt on the life of U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot in the head on January 8, has shocked and saddened Americans. It has been more than three decades since a member of the U.S. Congress was felled by an assassin's bullet.
Media freedom mourned in Hungary as Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas.
Dozens of people have been detained during anti-Kremlin protests in Moscow and St. Petersburg. The traditional end-of-month demonstrations are meant to assert their right to gather under the Russian Constitution.
Belarusian authorities have started to release people detained during a postelection demonstration on December 19.
A court in Moscow has found jailed oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky guilty of embezzlement and money laundering in a trial many said was a test of the country's authoritarian regime. Khodorkovsky was set be released from a first term of imprisonment next year but is now expected to remain behind bars several more years.
The rally in downtown Moscow on December 26 was organized by civil groups in reaction to rioting on December 11 when thousands of nationalists and football fans poured into the streets chanting, "Russia for Russians."
RFE/RL writer at large James Kirchick reports from the scene of a police crackdown in Belarus as thousands protested the reelection of President Alyaksandr Lukashenka.
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