russian opposition leader alexina vali has been sentenced to thirty days in prison for organizing a rally in late january against the country's presidential elections and a volley spokeswoman said that the sentence was clearly time to prevent him from attending another protest which he has called for next month. iran has taken the u.s. to the international court of justice in a bid to have u.s. sanctions lifted iran's legal team called washington's decision to reimpose sanctions earlier this year quote naked economic aggression to iran is asking the court to order that sanctions be suspended for as long as is the case as the case goes on which could be years. in germany a syrian and iraqi national have appeared in court in connection with the killing of a german national early on sunday morning the incident sparked a violent far right protest in the east german city of cabinets police said that a crowd of some eight hundred far right demonstrators refused to disperse and marched through the city center the german government has sharply sharply condemned these actions of the protesters who