Much of what happens in the EU in 2025 will hinge on the incoming U.S. presidency of Donald Trump. Speaking to EU officials ...

Lithium is a critical material for batteries used in electronic devices. Ukraine has an estimated 500,000 tons of lithium, ...

I'm RFE/RL Europe Editor Rikard Jozwiak, and this week I'm looking ahead at what we can expect from the EU in 2025.

The Ukrainian military has released video with a captured North Korean soldier who says he was lied to about combat against ...

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is once again making waves with his pursuit of Greenland, this time refusing to rule out ...

Amid a long-term demographic crisis, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared 2024 the Year of the Family. Laws drafted or ...

Once a powerful Russian oligarch, Vladimir Gusinsky has been tangled in legal disputes, mounting debts, and a bitter divorce.

Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the second week of 2025 from around RFE/RL's region. For more photo galleries, see our archive. 1 A mockup of a missile with the inscription ...

A man who illegally crossed the Rio Grande River into the United States reportedly admitted to having worked with the ...

Russia's transition to drones directed by fiber-optic cables, which makes jamming ineffective, is giving them an advantage on ...

Pakistani security forces suffered the deadliest year in almost a decade. The trend has worried residents, who say the state ...

Amid talk in Bulgaria of reintroducing compulsory military service, a new photo exhibition exposes the "labor battalions" ...