Prosecutors in Azerbaijan on May 20 asked a court to sentence journalist Farid Mehralizada to 12 years on smuggling charges ...

A massive Russian drone attack on May 18 killed Ukrainian photographer Anna Yefymenko near Kyiv as she shielded her son. The ...

The first EU-UK summit since Brexit over five years ago moved Britain closer to the EU, but without crossing any well-known ...

The European Union and the United Kingdom have imposed a new batch of sanctions targeting dozens of ships considered to be ...

Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the 21st week of 2025 from around RFE/RL's coverage region.

European leaders threatened “massive” sanctions against Russia if it failed to agree to a 30-day cease-fire proposed by US President Donald Trump. Russia has failed to agree and European countries say ...

Neighbors and family gathered in the Ukrainian community of Vasylkiv, outside Kyiv, to mourn a mother who died on May 18 while shielding her 4-year-old son from a Russian air attack. Anna Yefymenko, ...

Is Russian President Vladimir Putin really ready to commit to a cease-fire in the war against Ukraine? Lithuanian Foreign ...

A two-hour-plus call was an eyebrow-raising shift in both substance and tone from Donald Trump: there was no demand for ...

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has cast doubt over ongoing negotiations with the United States on Iran's ...

Putin has promised repeatedly that young Russian conscripts would not be deployed in combat with Ukrainian forces. But dozens ...

The Lithuanian foreign minister Kęstutis Budrys has cast doubts on whether the Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to commit to a ceasefire in the Ukraine war anytime soon.