Foreign Agents Registration Act

The body of a foreign national was discovered on Fara Beach in Lesvos on Monday afternoon by Coast Guard personnel.

Slobodan Tesic, who the US in December put on a blacklist of alleged human rights abusers and people involved in corrupt activities around the world, has hired lobbing company Sonoran Policy Group Inc in a bid to get his name removed from the list.

OSCE media freedom representative Harlem Desir says he is worried by a series of recent measures introduced by the US and Russia.

These countries are requiring media entities from other countries to register themselves as "foreign agents," the OSCE said in a statement.

US Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-New Hampshire) claims RT and Sputnik are "designed to undermine our democracy" and even compared them to Nazi propaganda while promoting her bill, a reaction to alleged Russian hacking of the 2016 election.

President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, who was fired from his prominent White House job last month, has registered with the Justice Department as a foreign agent for $530,000 worth of lobbying work before Election Day that may have aided the Turkish government.