Demonstrators in Georgia clash with police over “foreign agent“ bill

Police have tried to disperse protesters from outside parliament in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, as the government pushed forward with a divisive “Kremlin-inspired” law on foreign influence that the European Union has warned could wreck its membership bid. Opposition politicians had urged an all-night protest to prevent MPs from approving the law at a committee hearing on Monday morning. About 1,000 people attempted to block entrances to parliament before police moved in. At least 20 people, including two US citizens and one Russian national, were arrested during scuffles, interior ministry officials said. Read the best of our journalism: Subscribe to The Times and The Sunday Times YouTube channel: Find us on Facebook: Find us on Twitter: Find us on Instagram: