Moscow's 2014 annexation of Crimea and its meddling in eastern Ukraine have triggered concern in ex-communist eastern and central European states that joined NATO after the Cold War.
Rachel Dolezal's resignation from her job as president of the Spokane, Washington state chapter of the NAACP came as her parents, who are white and say she is too.
Nepal may allow hundreds of mountaineers who were forced to quit their Everest expeditions last month due to the avalanche to use their USD 11,000 climbing permits next year, an official said.
