1.   A confrontation between Russia and Belarus over jailed journalists escalated Thursday when the Kremlin warned that the dispute jeopardizes plans to unite the two former Soviet republics.

2.   A jailed journalist was released Friday after a professional association vouched for his court appearance.

3.   Among the other speakers at the rally was Lyudmila Sheremet, the mother of the most prominent of the jailed journalists, Pavel Sheremet.

4.   At least one editor who became the symbol of jailed journalists in Turkey was expected to benefit from the amnesty.

5.   At least one editor who became the symbol of jailed journalists in Turkey was expected to get amnesty.

6.   Authorities gave the family of jailed journalist Gao Yu something extra to celebrate, unexpectedly releasing her early Monday from a prison term.

7.   Belarus freed the last of a four-man Russian television crew Monday, bending further to Kremlin demands to release jailed journalists.

8.   Belarus leader promises to release jailed journalists.

9.   Egypt also has tightened libel laws and jailed three journalists on libel charges.

10.   Foreign Ministry spokesman Chen Jian on Friday lashed out at the International Federation of Newspaper Publishers for honoring jailed Chinese journalist Gao Yu.