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Beijing announced on Saturday that it was launching three days of military drills in the Taiwan Strait. The People's Liberation Army's Eastern Theatre......

Ukrainian defense forces said they repelled about 20 Russian attacks Thursday near the eastern city of Bakhmut, the scene of the most intense fighting of the conflict. Follow here for live updates. Ukrainian defense forces said they repelled about 20 Russ...

The new NASA device is capable of measuring air pollution across North America down to the neighborhood level. NASA said the mission isn't just for research, but about "improving life on Earth for all."...

Bernard Ruiz-Picasso is the son of Paulo Ruiz-Picasso, son of Pablo Picasso and his first wife Olga Khokhlova. He owns one of the largest private collections of the 20th-century art legend....

A London court has ruled that the Cuban government is not liable in a Castro-era debt dispute, while also recognizing that the debt is real and must be repaid. It is an international case that sends a powerful signal....

The UK defense ministry said Russia has "regained some momentum" in the battle for Bakhmut. Meanwhile, US media reported secret plans of a spring offensive in Ukraine have been leaked online. Follow DW for more....

Germany's old-fashioned peace movement is increasingly divided on how to respond to the war in Ukraine. Their traditional Easter marches are growing less and less relevant to younger generations....

The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and a US conservative think-tank were among the organizations sanctioned by China. The move comes after Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen met with US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy....

The Israeli military said it was targeting Hamas operations in retaliation for rocket strikes. The UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon has called for restraint from all sides....

While developing democracy was a U.S. goal in Iraq, 20 years after the U.S.-led invasion, adults in Iraq and 12 other Muslim-majority countries doubt the U.S. is serious about it....

Ukrainian and Russian forces battled on April 6 in the eastern city of Bakhmut, while in the Kherson region Russian strikes injured seven people....

U.S. Ambassador to Russia Lynne Tracy and a top Russian diplomat met on April 6 to discuss a Wall Street Journal reporter who was arrested last week on espionage charges....

The ruble fell against the U.S. dollar in trading on April 6 to the value it held just before Russia's invasion of Ukraine more than a year ago....

French President Emmanuel Macron has urged Beijing to talk sense into Russia over the war in Ukraine, telling his Chinese counterpart that Russia's aggression had dealt a blow to international stability....

An interagency review led by the National Security Council of the chaotic 2021 withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan largely lays the blame on former President Donald Trump, saying President Joe Biden was "severely constrained by conditions creat...

A former high-ranking officer in the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) appeared on April 6 in a court in Serbia to face money-laundering charges....

In recent years, Russia's space agency has lurched from crisis to scandal to embarrassment. Now a contract dispute with a Kazakh partner may hasten the demise of the famed Baikonur Cosmodrome....

The Lithuanian parliament on April 6 unanimously approved a resolution proposing an invitation to Ukraine to join NATO at the alliance's summit in July....

In the high horse country of Kyrgyzstan's Jumgal region, boys compete fiercely every day after school at kok-boru. The traditional sport involves capturing a goat's carcass, or "ulak," and maneuvering it on horseback into the opposing team...

Turkmenistan plans to demolish a historic 1,200-meter iron bridge and sell the metal used in its construction as raw material, sources close to the matter told RFE/RL....

A Ukrainian strike on New Year's Eve killed dozens of Russian soldiers from the Samara region in the city of Makiyivka. Three months later, Moscow still officially puts the death toll at 89. An RFE/RL open-source investigation has established that at ...

Prosecutors have requested a 25-year prison sentence for Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza, his lawyer said, adding that the case against the Russian opposition activist on several charges including treason for comments critical of Russia's invasion ...

Azerbaijan's Foreign Ministry has expelled four Iranian Embassy employees amid escalating tensions between the two neighbors....

Ihar Losik, a journalist with RFE/RL's Belarus Service who has been imprisoned since the summer of 2020 and has not been heard from in six weeks amid reports he attempted to commit suicide, has been returned to solitary confinement....

At the dolphinarium in the Black Sea port city of Constanta, Romanian and Ukrainian trainers have found common ground in their love for their mammals, who are now refugees from war....

A rights group has reiterated calls for the release of popular Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi, who was arrested during Tehran's clampdown on nationwide anti-government protests in October, due to his deteriorating state of health....

Uzbek-born journalist and documentary filmmaker Shahida Yakub says she was prevented from entering Uzbekistan when she arrived in Tashkent for a private visit on April 3....

Fast-tracking Moldova's accession to the European Union could be possible, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on April 6, as Chisinau seeks to join the bloc amid fears it could be drawn into the conflict in neighboring Ukraine....

Western officials say Russian forces have made Western officials say Russian forces have made...

Lithuania is seeking up to 120 million euros ($130 million) in compensation from Belarus, accusing its eastern neighbor of orchestrating the immigration of thousands of people, mainly from Africa and the Middle East....

Protesters took to the streets of the Shahr-e Ziba neighborhood west of the Iranian capital, Tehran, late on April 5 to mark the birthday of Hamid Reza Ruhi, who was killed in the brutal state crackdown on anti-government protests....

French President Emmanuel Macron told President Xi Jinping on Thursday that he knows he can count on China to reason with Russia and bring everyone back to the negotiating table over the war in Ukraine.Macron made the remarks during a state visit to Beiji...

Russia deported 136 Kyrgyz nationals last week on charges of undermining the country's migration rules, while some 100 others are being held at a detention center pending possible deportation, Kyrgyz authorities said on April 5....

Top diplomats from Middle East rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia met in Beijing on Thursday, pledging to work together to bring "security and stability" to their turbulent region following a China-brokered deal.In a joint statement released after talks...

The billionaire former prime minister of Italy is in intensive care in a hospital in Milan. Italian media reported he has been diagnosed with leukemia, but an ally has also described his condition as stable....

Ukraine's president has pushed for the formation of a coalition of Western powers to supply modern fighter aircraft to Kyiv and suggested that while his forces continue to control the battleground eastern city of Bakhmut, a withdrawal would be possibl...

A Beijing-brokered deal between rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia marks major diplomatic progress which could reshape relations across the region which has witnessed decades of conflict and violence....

Top diplomats from Middle East rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia met in Beijing on April 6, pledging to work together to bring "security and stability" to their turbulent region following a surprise China-brokered deal....

China's military advances come after Beijing condemned the meeting between Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen and US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy....

Russian border patrol officers detained the pilot of a Ukrainian light aircraft that crashed in the southern Bryansk region, which borders Ukraine, Russian state media said on April 5....

A 13-year-old Russian girl who was sent to an orphanage after her father was convicted of discrediting the Russian military has been picked up by her mother, the Kremlin children's rights commissioner said on April 5....

China has condemned a meeting between Taiwan's Tsai Ing-wen and the speaker of the US House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, in California."We firmly oppose all forms of official interaction between the United States and Taiwan and any visit by...