It’s the newest museum of the Smithsonian Institution, the African American Museum of History and Culture. Inside you’ll see more than relics of the past, but a celebration of contributions…
continue readingA suicide bomber has blown himself up at a wedding in northeastern Syria, killing at least 14 people and injuring dozens more, Syrian activists said. The Syrian Observatory for Human…
continue readingBrazil’s President Michel Temer said on Monday that he and Argentine counterpart Mauricio Macri had agreed to work together to strengthen the Mercosur trade bloc and seek an agreement with…
continue readingLatin America bemoaned Colombian voters’ rejection of a peace deal with Marxist insurgents, but regional leaders urged Bogota to keep pursing efforts to end the longest-running conflict in the Americas.…
continue readingIntrigue and drama surrounding Donald Trump’s tax returns underscore America’s curiosity about financial documents that have been made public by every major party presidential candidate, other than Trump, since 1976.…
continue readingClashes broke out in Honduras Monday as police fired tear gas on demonstrators blocking highway toll stations in protest of efforts by the ruling party to allow a presidential re-election…
continue readingIran’s President Hassan Rouhani told his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro in a phone call that it was essential for oil-producing countries to decide to raise the price of oil and…
continue readingAfghan troops have fought to regain control over the northern city of Kunduz after Taliban fighters captured the center of the provincial capital they had briefly seized about a year…
continue readingThe United States says it is suspending talks with Russia on trying to end the violence in Syria and accused Moscow of not living up to its commitments under a…
continue readingThe task Vyacheslav Bitarov faces is indeed daunting. For much of the past quarter-century, North Ossetia was the poster child among the North Caucasus republics. But recent years have seen…
continue readingWashington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, who was jailed in Iran for 18 months, has filed a lawsuit against the Iranian government, saying his detention was aimed at “extorting” concessions from…
continue readingFor the first time since the end of the 1992-95 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the town of Srebrenica is facing the prospect of an Bosnian Serb mayor. And that has stoked…
continue readingBosnia’s local elections suggest that each ethnic group remains concerned primarily with its own sense of victimhood, despite the benefits that would accrue if Bosnians voted as citizens, rather than…
continue readingRussian President Vladimir Putin has suspended a 16-year-old deal that called for reducing some of Russia’s and the United States’ stockpiles of weapons-grade plutonium, citing “Washington’s unfriendly actions toward Russia.”…
continue readingA Turkish deputy prime minister says the Turkish cabinet headed by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has decided to extend the state of emergency imposed on the country following the July…
continue readingGeorgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili has said Russia must treat former Soviet republics as full-fledged members of the international community. …
continue readingWASHINGTON — Two U.S. officials traveling with diplomatic passports were drugged while attending a conference in Russia last year, and one of them was hospitalized, in what officials have concluded…
continue readingA Moscow court has found prominent blogger and web pioneer Anton Nosik guilty of extremism and fined him half a million rubles ($8000) over a blog post titled “Wipe Syria…
continue readingA Kazakh court has sentenced the head of the Kazakh Journalists Union and his son to lengthy prison terms on corruption charges. …
continue readingRussian authorities have reportedly foiled a plot to kill the Kremlin-backed leader of Russia’s North Caucasus region of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov. …
continue readingKyrgyzstan’s President Almazbek Atambaev thanked all Kyrgyz citizens for their support after suffering what he called “an unexpected heart attack.” …
continue readingThe latest dispute between archrivals India and Pakistan centers on whether the Indian army took out several suspected terror camps just across the volatile border in Kashmir. While India claims…
continue readingRussian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree Monday to suspend an agreement with the United States on disposing of weapons-grade plutonium, citing Washington’s “unfriendly actions”. It also claimed the United…
continue readingTwo U.S. officials were drugged in St. Petersburg while attending a conference there in November 2015, RFE/RL has learned from sources with knowledge of the incident. Officials now believe it…
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