The Rolling Stones are expected on Thursday to announce their first studio album in a decade after teasing new music for days on Twitter. The British rock band this week…
continue readingThe United States and more than 40 other countries issued a declaration Wednesday laying out principles they said should govern the export and use of armed drones to ensure they…
continue readingA rocket owned by Jeff Bezos’ space company, Blue Origin, blasted off from Texas on Wednesday and then landed itself intact, even though engineers had expected it to crash after…
continue readingThe U.S. Supreme Court is considering the case of a black inmate on death row in Texas who contends that racially biased testimony tainted his sentence. On Wednesday, the nation’s…
continue readingIn one-third of people with diabetes, the “gold standard” method for monitoring blood sugar levels is inaccurate. But scientists have found a way to fix the discrepancy, helping diabetics more…
continue readingCzechs paid tribute to their late playwright-president Vaclav Havel on what would have been his 80th birthday on Wednesday by holding meetings and concerts and naming a small Prague square…
continue readingThe Paris Agreement on climate change will legally take effect November 4, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced Wednesday after nine more countries ratified the pact. The landmark agreement signed in…
continue readingTroops loyal to Riek Machar, South Sudan’s former first vice president, currently in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), would be welcome in South Sudan areas controlled by the Sudan…
continue readingFloating garbage is choking the world’s oceans and it turns out that the biggest concentration, known as the great Pacific garbage patch, is much bigger than previously thought. After the…
continue readingThe New York Times has reported the arrest by the FBI of a U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) contractor and an investigation into whether he stole and disclosed highly classified…
continue readingSvetlana Alexievich, the Belarusian author awarded the Nobel Prize for literature last year, said she can’t understand what Russia’s military is doing in Syria. In an interview with RFE/RL’s Current…
continue readingTwo recent developments cast a pall over Ramzan Kadyrov’s inauguration on October 5 — his 40th birthday — for a third consecutive term as Chechnya’s leader. (The views expressed in this blog…
continue readingChechnya’s Ramzan Kadyrov has been formally inaugurated for another term as head of the volatile Russian region. …
continue readingAs the Nobel Committee prepares to announce the 2016 literature prize winner, RFE/RL spoke with the 2015 laureate, Svetlana Alexievich of Belarus, about the increasing militarization in Russia and about…
continue readingDiplomats at the United Nations say Portugal’s former Prime Minister Antonio Guterres is likely to be the next UN secretary-general after receiving unanimous support in a key secret ballot by…
continue readingNATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said development and security go hand in hand in Afghanistan. He spoke with RFE/RL’s Mustafa Sarwar on the sidelines of a summit focusing on Afghanistan in…
continue readingIt’s 10 years since the murder of prominent Kremlin critic Anna Politkovskaya was murdered — a tenacious investigative reporter who exposed the brutality of Russia’s war in Chechnya, and documented…
continue readingWith businesses fretting over political uncertainties, including the potential impact of Britain’s exit from the European Union, economic growth in the 19-country eurozone has lost some momentum, a closely watched…
continue readingLawmakers in Ukraine have called on parliaments across the world to help defend the rights of two Ukrainian journalists held in Moscow and the Crimean Peninsula …
continue readingA United Nations expert says analysis of satellite imagery shows that an air strike was responsible for a deadly attack on an aid convoy in Syria last month. …
continue readingThe United States military says it conducted airstrikes in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz Wednesday to defend government forces who are battling resilient Taliban insurgents for a third day…
continue readingA spokesman says Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari is selling two jets in line with a campaign promise to reduce unnecessary luxuries, including the 11-aircraft presidential fleet. A statement Wednesday from…
continue readingThe United States has called Russia’s decision to suspend a cooperative program that commits the two countries to eliminating parts of their weapon-grade plutonium stocks “a big mistake.” …
continue readingThe head of Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom has been appointed as first deputy chief of President Vladimir Putin’s administration in charge of domestic politics. …
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