Top topics. Now playing Next. Bosnia and Herzegovina. Russian electoral officials on Sunday reported attempts to sabotage voting in the occupied regions, where guerrilla forces are loyal to Kyiv. Russian authorities are holding local elections this weekend in occupied parts of Ukraine in an effort to tighten their grip there.
United Kingdom. Claims circulated online that London would be turned into a "net zero prison" with the introduction of "climate lockdowns". State and district elections in the German capital last year were marred by glitches. The votes were seen as the last test ahead of next year's parliamentary elections.
The UK's ruling party was almost wiped out in London and lost councils elsewhere, but the Labour opposition has failed to make a breakthrough nationally. Thursday's local elections are seen as a major test for PM Boris Johnson and his ruling Conservatives. Republic of North Macedonia.
Several posters featuring a local election candidate next to the Tibetan flag were placed outside the Chinese embassy in Denmark before being removed. Saturday's election was overshadowed by the return from exile and arrest of former president Mikheil Saakashvili, convicted in absentia in of abuse of office.
The former president's arrest has considerably raised the stakes in Saturday's vote, seen as a test for the increasingly unpopular ruling party Georgian Dream. The south Caucasus nation's ex-leader, detained upon his return from exile, has called for people to vote against the ruling party in this weekend's local elections. Mikheil Saakashvili, who is based in Ukraine, says he plans to return to Georgia to help "save the country". The elections were the first for Marin as leader of both the government and her party.
