Three people in Turkey have been remanded after a boat carrying migrants sank on Lake Van in the east of the country, Turkey's state-run Anadolu agency reports on Friday

There have been 839 incidents of vote tampering during the week-long referendum on Russian constitutional changes, none of them grave, Russian Deputy Interior Minister Aleksandr Gorovoy said Wednesday

A boat carrying about 60 undocumented migrants sank in Lake Van in eastern Turkey killing six of them, the country's Anadolu news agency reported on Wednesday, citing Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu

Russian President Vladimir Putin and the permanent members of the country's Security Council have discussed integration processes on the post-Soviet territory, the Kremlin said on Monday

Law enforcement in Belarus have put criminal charges against four more bloggers over their criticism of the government amid upcoming presidential elections and intensified opposition activities, the Minsk-based Viasna human rights center said in a news release on Friday

Cyprus has faced difficulties accepting and managing high numbers of migrants and plans to tighten its migration and asylum policies to avoid this in the future, Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said in a report