U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is in Tunisia to offer continued American assistance to the North African nation where uprisings that toppled authoritarian leaders around the Arab world first ignited in 2011.

A crowd of protesters seeking constitutional change clashed violently with police in central Kiev Tuesday morning. The protesters attacked police with Molotov cocktails outside the parliament building. 

Ukraine’s pro-EU opposition leaders jetted to Germany for talks with Angela Merkel on Monday as the country took a small step to resolving its worst post-Soviet crisis with the adoption of a political amnesty.