Georgian ex-president Saakashvili gets nine more years in jail on fraud charge
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FILE - Georgia's jailed ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili appears via video link during a court hearing regarding anti-government protests in 2007, in Tbilisi, Oct. 27, 2023.
Former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili, who has been imprisoned since 2021, was sentenced on Wednesday to nine more years in jail after being found guilty of embezzlement.
French President Emmanuel Macron attends a meeting with the chiefs of staff of the European Union and NATO armies on the conflict in Ukraine at the Musee de la Marine in Paris, France, March 11, 2025.
FILE - People visit the booth of Chinese battery maker CATL during the China International Supply Chain Expo in Beijing on Dec. 1, 2023
Yasser Farhan, spokesperson for the Syrian fact-finding committee tasked with investigating violence and revenge killing targeting the Alawite minority sect along the Syrian coast, holds a press conference in Damascus on March 11, 2025.
FILE - The gate of an immigration detention center is seen in Bangkok on Feb. 26, 2025. FILE - This photo provided by Thailand's daily web newspaper Prachatai shows a vehicle with a load of unidentified passengers leave the detention center in Bangkok, Thailand, on Feb. 27, 2025.
Students and other anti-government protesters block access to the offices of state broadcaster Radio Television of Serbia (RTS), keeping employees out and forcing some of its live programming to go off air, in Belgrade, Serbia, March 11, 2025.
Bystanders pray at 2:46 p.m., March 11, 2025, in Tokyo, as Japan marked the 14th anniversary of the 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster that devastated the northeastern coast. Employees of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings take AP journalists to the area under the Unit 5 reactor pressure vessel, which survived the 2011 tsunami, at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Futaba town, Japan, Feb. 20, 2025. The Unit 3 reactor covered with protective housing at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, run by Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO), is seen in Okuma town, Japan, Feb. 20, 2025. This handout taken on Feb. 28, 2024 and released by TEPCO shows a drone landing during the 'primary containment vessel internal investigation' of Unit 1 at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Okuma, Fukushima prefecture. (TEPCO/AFP)
US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, left, and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio hold a meeting with Ukrainian officials, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, March 11, 2025. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and National Security Adviser Mike Waltz meet with Ukrainian officials Andriy Yermak, Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha, Defense Minister Rustem Umerov and deputy head of the presidential office Pavlo Palisa in Jeddah. (Nike Ching/VOA) US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha, and others Ukrainian officials hold a meeting in Jeddah in the presence of Saudi officials, on March 11, 2025.
Employees of Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdingstake AP journalists to the area under the Unit 5 reactor pressure vessel, which survived the earthquake-triggered tsunami in 2011, at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Futaba town, northeastern Japan, on Feb. 20, 2025.
FILE - South Sudan's President Salva Kiir, right, and Vice President Riek Machar, left, attend a Holy Mass led by Pope Francis at the John Garang Mausoleum in Juba, South Sudan, Feb. 5, 2023.
This photo released by Moscow Region Governor Andrei Vorobyev official telegram channel shows damaged and burnt cars following a Ukrainian drone attack in Domodedovo, outside Moscow, Russia, on March 11, 2025.
FILE - Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama sits on his ceremonial chair after he arrived at the Tsuglakhang temple to give a sermon at the request of a Buddhist group from Taiwan in Dharamshala, India, Sept. 30, 2024.