A Russian court on Monday sentenced a former journalist to 22 years in prison for treason after prosecutors said he disclosed state secrets, a ruling his supporters said was a harsh punishment that showed the absence of media freedom in Russia.
Novaya Gazeta, one of Russia's last independent news outlets, was stripped of its media licence on Monday, and in effect banned from operating.
While voters in Chile made it clear Sunday they do not support the constitution that was proposed to replace the dictatorship-era document the country currently has, Chileans in Canada overwhelmingly voted in support of the draft.
China's state media says at least 21 people have been killed in a 6.8-magnitude earthquake in the southwestern province of Sichuan.
With the U.S. congressional midterm elections just two months away, Democrats are arguing democracy itself is now on the ballot. While President Joe Biden has called Donald Trump's supporters a threat to democracy, Trump says the legal and political forces arrayed against him are lawless, sick, evil and divisive.
