Somali security forces shut down a newspaper and arrested its editor, a colleague said Monday. Abdi Adan Guled, editor of Xog-Ogaal newspaper, was arrested Sunday after troops raided the Mogadishu…
continue readingA massive Russian “spiritual and cultural center,” crowned by a golden-domed Orthodox cathedral, opens its gates in downtown Paris this week, thrusting Russian religious and political outreach to the fore…
continue readingA court in Lithuania plans to summon former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to a trial over the Soviet crackdown on the Baltic state’s pro-independence movement in 1991. …
continue readingSurgeons from around the world gathered at a conference in Beijing on Monday in China’s latest effort to fight persistent skepticism about whether its hospitals have stopped performing transplants with…
continue readingEquatorial Guinea on Monday called on the United Nations’ highest court to urgently order France to halt a criminal case against the son of the African nation’s leader on charges…
continue readingThe European Union is ready to step up pressure on the Democratic Republic of Congo, including imposing sanctions, to end the unrest in the east of the vast nation and…
continue readingThe Moscow-based human rights center Memorial has recognized a Chechen journalist Zhalaudi Geriyev as a political prisoner. …
continue readingWikiLeaks says that founder Julian Assange’s internet access has been cut by an unidentified state actor. Few other details were immediately available. Assange has been up holed up at…
continue readingPop-up clothes dyeing centers are a new phenomenon in the Thai capital as black apparel becomes too expensive for many following the death of King Bhumibol Adulyadej. The Thai…
continue readingThe editor-in-chief of Kremlin-funded television network RT claimed Monday that all channel’s bank accounts in Britain have been closed. Margarita Simonyan said via Twitter that RT had received a ruling…
continue readingAfghan officials say unknown gunmen have shot dead a reporter in the southern province of Zabul. …
continue readingRussian state broadcaster RT says all its bank accounts in Britain have been closed down. …
continue readingBritain and France are expected to push for strong condemnation of Syria and Russia at an EU foreign ministers meeting in Luxembourg on October 17. …
continue readingIraqi officials say a suicide bombing targeting security forces outside the capital has killed at least nine people, including civilians and members of the country’s security forces. …
continue readingIranian hard-line media have released a video showing detained Iranian-American businessman Siamak Namazi. …
continue readingThis is Part 6 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 readingThis is Part 6 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 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 readingThe Battle for Mosul …
continue readingThailand’s military government has reaffirmed its backing of a “political roadmap” for national elections in late 2017 even as the country is engulfed in mourning over the passing of King…
continue readingDaigou is a cottage industry in Australia, selling millions of dollars’ worth of beauty products, infant formula, wine and vitamins directly to consumers in China, who pay premium prices for…
continue readingLong-serving Montenegrin leader Milo Djukanovic told cheering supporters the country would continue on its path towards NATO and the EU after winning parliamentary elections. (RFE/RL’s Balkan Service) …
continue readingEuropean Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini says the EU is not considering sanctioning Russia over its actions in Syria. “This has not been proposed by any member state,” she…
continue readingIraqi government forces and Kurdish Peshmerga fighters have launched a large-scale offensive to retake the city of Mosul from the Islamic State (IS) extremist group. Iraq’s military said more than…
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