Russian police rounded up more than 1,000 people in Moscow on Saturday, including some prominent opposition activists around a political protest.
AP's Ben Thomas has details.
Thousands of demonstrators gathered in the heart of the Russian capital to protest the exclusion of opposition candidates from the ballot for Moscow's City Council. Vote scheduled to be held in September.
Demonstrators chanted slogans, including "Russia will be free" and "Who are you beating?" as lines of helmeted police pushed into the crowds beating people with buttons and arresting hundreds.
They also stormed the video studio of Russia's most prominent opposition figure, Alexei Navalny, arresting the presenter during a live YouTube broadcast of the protest.
That's Ben Thomas of AP.
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U.S. President Donald Trump struck out Saturday at a prominent African-American congressman who's been a strong critic of Trump's handling of the migration crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border.
In a series of morning tweets, the president described Elijah Cummings, a Maryland Democratic and the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, as "a brutal [buddy] bully," rather. He said Cummings' district of Baltimore was "a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess."
In his own tweet, Cummings said he goes home to his district every night. He added that while it is his constitutional duty to oversee the executive branch, it is his moral obligation to represent the interests of his constituents.
Baltimore's Mayor Bernard Young called Trump's rhetoric "hurtful and dangerous." He said it was a "completely unacceptable" thing for the president to "denigrate a vibrant American City like Baltimore," and to viciously attack Cummings, whom he called "a patriot and a hero."
Eight senior military officers are expected to be charged in Sudan with crimes against humanity for their alleged part in the killing of protesters on June 3.
Sudanese prosecutors said Saturday the country's ruling generals did not order the deadly breakup of a protest camp last month. Instead, prosecutors blamed paramilitary rapid support forces for exceeding orders and dispersing the protest camp on their own initiative.
The report found security forces were told only to clear a lawless area close to the camp, not the sit-in itself.
Prosecutors put the death toll at 87. Protesters say that 127 people were killed.
Protesters set tires on fire and put roadblocks in place in response to the report's findings. They also took to the streets across the Nile River in Khartoum's twin city of Omdurman.
Bahrain executed three men on Saturday in two separate cases - one involving the killing of a police officer and the other the killing of a mosque imam.
The public prosecutors said in a statement that two of the men were convicted for crimes, including using an assault rifle to kill a police officer in 2017 in attacks orchestrated by what it called Iran-based ring leaders.
The third executed man was convicted of killing an imam in 2018.
At least 10 Pakistani soldiers were killed Saturday in two separate militant attacks.
Six of them died when militants from across the Afghan border fired on a patrol in North Waziristan. Four paramilitary troops were killed in the second attack during a search operation in southwestern Baluchistan province.
For more, visit our website. I'm David Byrd, VOA news.
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