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Russia's lower chamber of parliament, the State Duma, has approved the first reading of a series of amendments to the country's controversial "gay propaganda" law, an expansion of the legislation that rights activists say has put LGBT people at risk and led to increased discrimination and violence.

PLEASANTON – The following is a breakdown of the campaign contribution reports for Pleasanton’s city council and mayoral candidates in 2022.

Iranian protesters get creative; universities turn into a major battleground between authorities and protesters; and Iranian missiles threaten to boost Russia's deadly air campaign in Ukraine.

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, Oct. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The sixth edition of the Future Investment Initiative (FII) began yesterday in Riyadh, under the theme of 'Investing in Humanity: Enabling

Kyrgyz blogger Yryskeldi Jekshenaliev, who was arrested in August on charges of making public calls for mass disorder and violence, has been transferred to house arrest.

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The United States has designated 10 Iranian officials, including those overseeing Tehran's Evin prison, for sanctions over Internet censorship and a crackdown on protests ignited by Mahsa Amini's death in police custody.

Some 200,000 foreigners have applied for Kazakh individual identification numbers to be eligible to work and have bank accounts in the Central Asian nation in the weeks since Moscow announced a partial mobilization for the war in Ukraine. 

With a decree detailing how the KGB can access private information, Belarus's leader is handing the state intrusive new tools to suppress dissent. “If surveillance through Internet resources sounded like a potential threat before, it’s now clear how they’re going to do it,” a monitoring group says.

A court in Russia's northwestern city of Arkhangelsk has sentenced a former associate of jailed Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny to 30 months in prison on a charge of rehabilitating Nazism.