Mikhail Saakashvili, the former Georgian president who has resigned as governor of Ukraine's Odessa region, says he will push for early elections in the country.
Bulgarians vote Sunday to choose their new president in a contested runoff that has become a referendum on the fate of the country's center-right government.
Poles are marking Independence Day with military ceremonies as well as marches by different groups, including anti-government democracy activists and far-right nationalists vowing to keep migrants out of the country.
Iran's foreign minister has visited the Czech capital, Prague, to talk business, including the development of a nuclear program, after the sanctions against his country were lifted.
Turkey's prime minister says he hopes his government can achieve constitutional reforms to usher in a presidential system with the support of the nationalist party.
A Zimbabwean court has set aside charges against a professional hunter accused of allowing an American dentist to kill Cecil, a lion whose death in 2015 prompted an international outcry.
An Ethiopian court has sentenced eight Somali nationals to jail terms ranging from two to nine years after they were convicted for planning a failed attack in the capital Addis Ababa.
A Kosovo court has decided that seven people arrested for alleged links to Islamic extremists should be kept in custody so they don't try to flee the country.
The U.N. human rights office is citing new details as proof that the Islamic State group is using chemical weapons as Iraqi government forces try to oust its fighters from the city of Mosul.
Authorities say that police in Bosnia and Croatia are detaining suspects and raiding 60 locations in search of evidence of organized crime, abuse of office, violation of the law by a judge and money-laundering.