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Russia rounds up Navalny allies as weekend protests loom

Russian authorities have arrested several of Alexey Navalny’s closest allies, including the leading Kremlin critic’s spokeswoman, ahead of planned weekend protests over his recent arrest. Navalny, President Vladimir Putin’s most prominent opponent, was arrested on January 17 and later...

Syria cuts gasoline subsidies, again

Amid a suffocating economic crisis and a desperate shortage of foreign currency, the Syrian government has raised the price of subsidized gasoline for the second time in three months. The Ministry of Internal Trade and Consumer Protection on Wednesday increased the price per liter from $0.87...