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Bulgaria's lawmakers have voted to freeze electricity and heating prices for households until the end of March, giving the new governing coalition time to come up with a plan to shield the European Union's poorest member state from rising energy costs.

Janesville Little Theatre director Steve Shaw talks about how he got started acting/directing, what he would most like to learn and what he thinks of Meryl Streeps acting.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says 488 journalists and media workers were detained around the world as of December 1, the highest number since the group began publishing its annual roundup more than 25 years ago.

Russia has rejected a Berlin court's ruling that Moscow was behind the shooting death of a former Chechen militant in Berlin more than two years ago, calling it "completely divorced from reality" and warned of retaliation over the issue, which Germany's new chancellor defended.

One day after Iran agreed to reinstall surveillance cameras at one of its nuclear facilities, a spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran said that the UN's atomic watchdog will not be able to examine images from the cameras until sanctions are lifted.

Authorities in Belarus have again failed to release a freelance journalist who has worked for RFE/RL's Belarus Service even though the second consecutive jail term he was handed on a controversial hooliganism charge ended on December 15.

While the problem of hazing of conscripts remains a stubborn and much-documented problem in Russia’s armed forces, the issue of officers resigning in protest is less well-known.

The United States has announced sanctions on several Chinese biotech and surveillance firms in the latest step against Beijing over human rights abuses of Uyghurs, a major indigenous ethnic group in the country's western Xinjiang province.

Authorities in Bosnia-Herzegovina say they have arrested eight people suspected of involvement in the killing of dozens of people, including women, children and seniors, during the Bosnian War nearly 30 years ago.

The Moscow City Court has ruled that hearings on a prosecutor's request to shut down one of Russia's oldest rights watchdogs, the Memorial Human Rights Center, will begin on December 23.