Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is turning to another battle aside from illegal drugs: smoking. Health Secretary Paulyn Ubial said Tuesday she hopes the president can sign the draft executive order…
continue readingRussia’s deployment of nuclear-capable missiles its enclave of Kaliningrad on the Baltic Sea is a “wake-up call” for the West of the current dangers, according to analysts. Germany warns the…
continue readingAn effigy of Nobel Prize-winning Russian writer and historian Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn has been hung up in front of the gulag museum in Moscow. …
continue readingGrowing uncertainties over the health of Thailand’s revered monarch, Bhumipol Adulyadej, has hit financial markets and investor confidence, with analysts saying the concerns add to a list of issues affecting the…
continue readingA Russian woman who accused former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer of assaulting her has been arrested for trying to extort money from him. …
continue readingCrimean leader Mustafa Dzhemilev, Yazidi activists Nadia Murad and Lamiya Aji Bashar, and Turkish journalist Can Dundar have been named as the final candidates for the 2016 Sakharov Prize given…
continue readingGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel is visiting Ethiopia, where her meeting on Tuesday with Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn is expected to focus on the country’s newly declared state of emergency and…
continue readingRussian President Vladimir Putin has canceled a visit to Paris after a disagreement over the agenda of talks with French President Francois Hollande. …
continue readingThis is Part Two of a special Daily Vertical series on Vladimir Putin and The Ghosts Of Kremlins Past. (The views expressed in this commentary do not necessarily reflect the…
continue readingRussian President Vladimir Putin has canceled a planned visit to France after French President Francois Hollande insisted their meeting focus solely on Syria. Putin was due to travel to Paris…
continue readingThe Daily Vertical is a video primer for Russia-watchers that appears Monday through Friday. (The views expressed in this commentary do not necessarily reflect the views of RFE/RL.) …
continue readingActing Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyaev has proposed an amnesty for prisoners in honor of Constitution Day, which is marked on December 8. …
continue readingKazakhstan’s security forces have detained three terror suspects in the country’s largest city, Almaty. …
continue readingKazakhstan’s presidential office says President Nursultan Nazarbaev is being treated for a cold. …
continue readingThis is Part Two of a special Daily Vertical series on Vladimir Putin and The Ghosts Of Kremlins Past. (The views expressed in this commentary do not necessarily reflect the…
continue readingA new report using UN statistics estimates there are about 700 million girls around the world who were forced to get married before the age of 18. …
continue readingIf Republican Party presidential candidate Donald Trump were elected and carried out his promise to investigate and jail his political opponent, Hillary Clinton, he would be among a number of…
continue readingSouth Korean electronics giant Samsung says it will no longer manufacture its troubled Galaxy Note 7 smartphone after numerous reports around the globe of overheating. The company announced Tuesday it…
continue readingIn this most western tip of Haiti, 300 patients with festering wounds lay silently on beds at the main hospital in the seaside village of Dame Marie waiting for medicine…
continue readingChina’s defense ministry has rejected as “malicious speculation” allegations by a U.S.-based group that Chinese peacekeepers had abandoned their posts in South Sudan in July instead of protecting civilians. Chinese…
continue readingThe World Economic Forum, the Swiss-based group that sponsors that annual Davos gathering of world leaders, is opening a San Francisco office to explore policy and regulatory questions surrounding new…
continue readingThe Russian ambassador to the United Nations said he has complained to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon about UN criticism of Western populist leaders, but he denied defending U.S. Republican presidential candidate…
continue readingSaudi Arabia’s involvement in Yemen’s civil war is under increased scrutiny after a Saudi airstrike on a funeral in neighboring Yemen on Saturday killed 142 mourners and wounded hundreds of…
continue readingForget the man with his name in gold on a tower in New York City. Forget the woman who circled the globe as the country’s top diplomat. What Americans needed…
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