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Butina in December entered a plea deal on a charge she acted as an illegal, unregistered foreign agent but was released Friday

'Russians Don't Surrender': 'Agent' Maria Butina Arrives In Moscow

Maria Butina clutched bouquets of flowers and exclaimed that "Russians don't surrender" as she arrived in Moscow on Saturday after serving nine months in a US jail for acting as a Russian government agent.Butina flew into Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport after being deported from Miami following her release on Friday, AFP journalists said. She had been held in Florida's Tallahassee prison."I didn't give up because I know I simply didn't have the right," Butina told a waiting crowd of journalists. "Russians don't surrender!"
Drivers angry over toll charges demonstrate as part of protests over socio-economic woes

Over A Million Protesters Demand Chile President's Resignation

More than one million people took to the streets in Chile Friday for the largest protests in a week of deadly demonstrations demanding economic reforms and the resignation of President Sebastian Pinera.The leader told the thronging masses that he had "heard the message" in a post on Twitter, characterizing the protests in a positive light and as a means towards change.Demonstrators carrying indigenous and national flags sang popular resistance songs from the 1973-90 Augusto Pinochet dictatorship era as the country, usually seen as one of the most stable in Latin America, grapples with its worst violence in decades.
Crowds of protesters have thronged Lebanese cities for days, cutting main roads and paralysing the country with school and bank closures

Tensions Rattle Lebanon Anti-graft Protests

Tensions rattled Lebanon's nine-day protest movement Friday, with a powerful Shiite leader seeking to diffuse them by calling his supporters away from the streets.The demonstrators -- who have thronged towns and cities across Lebanon -- have been demanding the removal of the entire political class, accusing many across different parties of systematic corruption.The chief of powerful Shiite movement Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, Friday warned that any cabinet resignation would lead to "chaos and collapse" of the economy.

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