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Protesters in Belarus accuse the government of shutting down the Internet to interfere with their protest plans. An opposition candidate defeated in weekend elections fled to Lithuania for her safety.

President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus, often referred to as Europe's last dictator, claimed a sixth term in an election this week that much of the world sees as fraudulent.

The authorities in Belarus forced a passenger flight to land in the capital of Minsk and then detained an opposition leader who was one of the passengers on board.

The fierce critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin began refusing food on March 31 to demand medical care for leg and back pain.

Calls to outlaw discrimination based on caste, a division of people based on birth or descent, have grown louder among South Asian diaspora communities in the United States.

President Biden's approval rating has ticked up, and Democrats are growing more confident in him. Trump, meanwhile, is seeing his lowest scores with Republicans in seven years.

Russia will stop its participation in a nuclear arms control treaty. U.S. jury convicts Mexico's ex-public security head of taking cartel bribes. Poll shows President Biden's approval rating is up.

There is international outrage over the actions of the regime in Belarus, which diverted an international passenger flight on Sunday in order to seize an opposition activist who was on board.

Russian officials report thousands of new COVID-19 cases and hundreds of deaths everyday, but that's not reflected on the streets of Moscow, where people act as if the pandemic is over.

The dacha — a Russian summer home that can be anything from a shack to an oligarch's faux chateau — is both an escape from the city and a state of mind that permeates the country's life and culture.