U.S. flooding patterns have shown some regional changes but no countrywide shift despite heavier rains spawned by global warming, a study by U.S. and Austrian researchers said Wednesday. Findings that…
continue readingIslamic State militants no longer control any oil wells in Iraq after being ousted by government forces last week from an area near Kirkuk, the oil ministry said Wednesday. IS…
continue readingClimate change, acid rain, excessive logging and pest infestation threaten forests in many parts of the world, including Eastern Europe. Local authorities are fighting back, and some of them are…
continue readingNicolas Sarkozy, hurt by legal and political setbacks, has lost ground against his main conservative rival in the race for France’s Republican party presidential nomination, two polls showed Wednesday. Sarkozy,…
continue readingPresident Barack Obama’s nomination of an ambassador to Cuba is welcome, but he should do more to normalize relations between the two countries during his remaining time in office, a…
continue readingThe U.S. Congress has defied President Barack Obama on the question of whether relatives of victims of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks should be allowed to sue Saudi Arabia.…
continue readingThe wife of a Chechen man who was shot and killed by FBI agents as they questioned him about one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects has been charged with…
continue readingRussian officials have decried the interim results of an international investigation that found that the Malaysian Airlines passenger jet that crashed in eastern Ukraine in July 2014 was shot down…
continue readingBritish prosecutors have charged a man with terrorism offenses related to the war between Russia-backed separatists and Kyiv’s forces in eastern Ukraine. …
continue readingU.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has threatened to cut off all cooperation with Russia over Syria unless Moscow and its Syrian allies end an ongoing air assault on the city…
continue readingRussian warplanes pounded rebel-held areas of Aleppo again on September 28, continuing a major assault along with Syrian government troops and Iranian ground forces. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations…
continue readingU.S. officials said President Barack Obama is poised to order more troops to Iraq ahead of a major assault to retake the city of Mosul from Islamic State militants. …
continue readingHoney and honey-based booze featured prominently at a sun-kissed annual beekeeping festival in the Serbian capital. (RFE/RL’s Balkan Service) …
continue readingThe U.S. Coast Guard has suspended the search for a group of Cuban migrants reported missing from a makeshift vessel that capsized off the Florida Keys. The agency called…
continue readingA spokesman for the international investigation into the shooting down of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 in 2014 has told a news conference in Nieuwegein, the Netherlands, that it was shot…
continue readingIn this episode of Heard It From Her, we spoke with Iranian Azadeh Tavakoli, who is making a documentary film about the treatment of Christians and other religious minorities in…
continue readingAt every corner of Israel’s tumultuous history, Shimon Peres was there. He was a young aide to the nation’s founding fathers when the country declared independence in 1948, and he…
continue readingProspects are dim for a deal among OPEC countries on Wednesday to freeze production and support oil prices, as disagreements persist between regional rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran. Officials…
continue readingMiami-Dade County officials say they’re planning to release the locations of mosquito traps that captured Zika-positive insects in Miami Beach. Michael Hernandez, a spokesman for Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez,…
continue readingRelatives of people killed in Air Malaysia flight MH17, shot down over Ukraine in 2014, spoke to journalists after a private briefing in Nieuwegein, the Netherlands, on the latest findings…
continue readingThe Navy has investigated the case of a sailor who didn’t salute as the national anthem played during a recent morning flag-raising at Pearl Harbor. U.S. Pacific Fleet spokesman…
continue readingRelatives of people killed in Malaysian Airlines Flight 17, shot down over Ukraine in 2014, spoke to journalists after a private briefing in Nieuwegein, the Netherlands, on the latest findings…
continue readingOpposition to the deployment of the U.S. Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) anti-missile system is weakening in South Korea’s National Assembly in the face of North Korea’s rapid advancement of…
continue readingDonald Trump’s success in the business world is often cited by his supporters as one of the main reasons for backing the Republican presidential candidate. But a recent book chronicling…
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