The G7 must respond to Iran's attack on Israel, Germany's foreign minister said on April 18, adding that measures were being discussed with her counterparts at a meeting in Italy.
https://www.rferl.org/a/germany-g7-response-iran-israel-attack/32910731.html
Iranian journalist Dina Ghalibaf was arrested after she published a personal narrative about her previous detention by Iran’s morality police for not adhering to the mandatory hijab law.
https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-journalist-arrested-assault-morality-police/32910706.html
Two men with dual German-Russian citizenship have been arrested in Germany for allegedly plotting acts of sabotage aimed at undermining military support for Ukraine, the German prosecutor's offic...
Air-defense systems shot down all 13 drones launched by Russia at Ukraine's territory on April 18, Ukraine's air force said. Most of the drones were launched at infrastructure targets in the west...
https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-downs-13-russian-drones/32910655.html
A multimillion-dollar project aimed at recreating a lost ancient Thracian city has stirred controversy in Bulgaria. Critics say the mock-up, funded with EU and state funds, has nothing to do with...
https://www.rferl.org/a/bulgaria-history-heritage-thracian-controversy/32909572.html
Social media platform X, formerly Twitter, has pledged to work with Pakistan's government "to understand its concerns" after authorities said an ongoing two-month shutdown of the site in the coun...
https://www.rferl.org/a/social-media-x-pakistan-service-disruption/32910514.html
Six months since being detained in Russia, U.S. journalist Alsu Kurmasheva has insisted she will walk free "as an innocent person." Kurmasheva, who works for RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir Service, is ch...
https://www.rferl.org/a/us-journalist-russia-rferl/32909116.html
For some 25 years, Alsu Kurmasheva worked as a journalist at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Tatar-Bashkir service. Then, six months ago, as she says, “in an instant, it turned into a crime...
A deputy chief of the Kosovar police and four other police officers have been detained by Serb authorities at the border, Kosovo's Internal Affairs Ministry said late on April 17.
https://www.rferl.org/a/senior-kosovar-police-official-detained-by-serbia-at-border/32910464.html
The U.S. House of Representatives will have its long-awaited vote on aid for Ukraine, Israel, and the Indo-Pacific as soon as this weekend, Republican Speaker Mike Johnson said, paving the way fo...
https://www.rferl.org/a/us-house-vote-ukraine-israel-aid/32910455.html
Georgia's ruling party has introduced laws that would ban "gay propaganda" and create a "foreign agents" registry. Ahead of critical elections in October, critics say that the laws are part of an...
https://www.rferl.org/a/georgia-foreign-agents-law-gay-propaganda-elections/32909642.html
The United States and other partners have already started working on Ukraine’s economic recovery even as Kyiv focuses on defending itself because both they know that "part of Putin’s war stra...
https://www.rferl.org/a/us-envoy-ukraine-recovery-reconstruction/32910370.html
RFE/RL's Ukraine Live Briefing gives you the latest developments on Russia's ongoing invasion, Western military aid, global reaction, and the plight of civilians. The Live Briefing presents the ...
https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-crisis-crosshairs-live-briefing/31668477.html
A group of Iranian political prisoners around the country have launched a hunger strike to protest a wave of death sentences that could push Iran's execution rate even higher, human rights activi...
https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-political-prisoners-hunger-strike-executions-protest/32909846.html
Turkmenistan has opened a section of the Ashgabat-Turkmenabat highway linking the cities of Tejen and Mary in southeastern Turkmenistan.
https://www.rferl.org/a/turkmenistan-new-highway-opened-tejen-mary-berdymukhammedov/32909828.html
The director of Montenegro’s Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA) has been arrested after a search of the ACA's offices and vehicles in Podgorica in the latest in a series of measures aimed at curtaili...
Media reports in Kyrgyzstan cited the Digital Development Ministry as saying that it had instructed Internet providers to limit access to TikTok as of April 18.
https://www.rferl.org/a/kyrgyzstan-tiktok-limits-internet-accessibility/32909745.html
The Memorial human rights group has recognized activist Ramila Saitova (aka Galim) from Russia’s Republic of Bashkortostan, who was sentenced in December to five years in prison for her online ...
In the Kazakh city of Oral, thousands of residents are building dams and preparing for another wave of flooding that could arrive on April 20. With no help from the state, people in a village in ...
https://www.rferl.org/a/kazakhs-central-asia-russia-floods-second-wave/32909673.html
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has reiterated his warning to Israel that "the tiniest invasion" would trigger a swift and severe response amid global concerns over how the Jewish state will reta...
https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-raisi-warning-israel-attack-response/32909685.html