Putin said that Russia would station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, marking the first time since the mid-1990s that Moscow would base such arms outside the country.
The Nobel Peace Prize was jointly awarded to Ales Bialiatski, a detained activist in Belarus, the Russian human rights organization Memorial and the Ukrainian human rights organization Center for Civil Liberties.
Extreme weather across Europe has caused four deaths in storms in Switzerland and northern Italy, while wildfires have forced evacuations in Greece and Turkey.
