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A court in Belarus convicted a dissident journalist who was arrested after being pulled off a commercial flight that was diverted to the country and sentenced him Wednesday to eight years in prison.

A court in Minsk has sentenced Raman Pratasevich, a journalist who was detained in Belarus in 2021 after the commercial flight he was on was forced to land in Minsk, to eight years in prison on charges linked to his reporting.

Fire, damaging explosions on railways, and a drone attack targeting a military airport have been reported in two Russian regions close to Ukraine, Krasnodar and Bryansk.

Siberian journalist Maria Ponomarenko, who was sentenced to six years in prison in February on a charge of discrediting Russia's military, says she will be transferred to a remote location from her native Altai region, which is a violation of her two children's right to regularly visit their mother.

Russian Navy ships were repeatedly in the vicinity of the Nord Stream pipelines off the coasts of Denmark and Sweden, days before a mysterious explosion, according to a new report.

Raman Pratasevich stood trial on charges of organising unrest and plotting to seize power.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has arrived in Finland on a previously unannounced visit to attend a Nordic summit, the Finnish presidency said on May 3.

Eight children and one security guard were shot dead and several other children and one teacher were wounded in a shooting spree at a school in Serbia's capital, Belgrade.

A court in Kazakhstan has rejected a request for political asylum filed by a man from the Russian region of Kalmykia who left a military unit in Russia's Volgograd to avoid taking part in the war in Ukraine.

A Belarusian court has convicted a dissident journalist who was arrested after being...