Watching the results roll in last night from Budapest, you will have witnessed crowds of young Hungarians celebrating the fall of the regime which, as […]
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Vance Says Ball In Tehran’s Court After Progress In Islamabad
As the US-Israeli war with Iran continues to impact and shape the region, journalists from RFE/RL deliver ongoing updates and analysis.
Shahrnush Parsipur: ‘The women of Iran will cause the fall of the Islamic Republic’
As her banned 1989 novella, Women Without Men, is published for the first time in the UK, the Iranian author looks back on a life […]
Worst since WWII: Kallas decries breakdown of international law in Middle East and Ukraine
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas on Monday drew a direct parallel between Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the war in the Middle East, saying […]
Access to trees is becoming a luxury in European cities
BRUSSELS — Wealthy Europeans are far more likely to have access to nature than the continent’s low-income residents, a new study mapping green spaces in […]
CEO of Poste Italiane follows up on €10.8bn bid for Telecom Italia
Matteo Del Fante spells out the business justification for his offer in the Financial Times, regardless of state-ownership, and suggests the deal could be complete […]
Court In Kazakhstan Finds All 19 Defendants Guilty For Anti-China Protests
A court in Kazakhstan convicted all 19 defendants in a politically sensitive case heard behind that was linked to an anti-China protest last year near […]
What Péter Magyar’s victory in Hungary means for Ukraine
KYIV — Ukraine has expressed relief at the political turn in Budapest, but the feeling may not last long. Despite Viktor Orbán’s landslide loss to […]
Meloni slams ‘unacceptable’ Trump comments on Pope Leo
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has condemned U.S. President Donald Trump’s social media tirade against Leo XIV, even as the president continued his war of […]
Africa Data Centres partners Oni-Tel Fibre Networks to improve Guateng links
Africa Data Centres says it operates the continent’s largest interconnected, vendor- and cloud-neutral data centre platform – the new connectivity is for Midrand and Samrand […]
Magyar hints at ending Hungary’s block on €90B Ukraine loan
BUDAPEST — Hungary’s government will drop its opposition to the EU’s €90 billion loan to Ukraine, incoming Prime Minister Péter Magyar signaled, bringing a four-month […]
How Orbán lost the Hungarian election
How Orbán lost the Hungarian election For two years, the Hungarian leader watched his support slip away. By MAX GRIERAin Budapest Illustration by Natália Delgado/ […]
British PM Rules Out Aiding US Blockade Of Iranian Ports
As the US-Israeli war with Iran continues to impact and shape the region, journalists from RFE/RL deliver ongoing updates and analysis.
Bra-burning was just a 1970s tabloid trope | Letter
Judith Condon is disappointed by Call the Midwife’s reductive depiction of the Women’s Liberation Movement What a pity to see Call the Midwife, still one […]
Pope Leo says Trump won’t silence him as US-Vatican feud erupts over Iran
Pope Leo said Monday that he was not scared of the White House, after U.S. President Donald Trump launched a stinging attack on the Catholic […]
Merz’s coalition agrees on joint measures to tackle Iran war fallout
BERLIN — The leaders of Germany’s centrist coalition on Monday announced a range of measures to tackle the fallout of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran. […]
NASA honours astronomers who helped confirm humanity’s first asteroid deflection
Observations from a global network of telescopes helped verify that NASA’s DART spacecraft successfully altered the orbit of the asteroid moon Dimorphos. The measurements confirmed […]
Departures review – airport meet triggers love lost and found in a haze of hookups and hangovers
This darkly comic drama tracks one man’s post-breakup spiral, as memory and desire blur in a stylised, emotionally candid exploration of identity and intimacy Do […]
Trump Confirms Blockade Of Iranian Ports
As the US-Israeli war with Iran continues to impact and shape the region, journalists from RFE/RL deliver ongoing updates and analysis.
New UK steel tariffs threaten British manufacturing, industry warns
LONDON — New protections for the U.K. steel sector will fuel inflation and threaten thousands of jobs throughout the manufacturing sector, metal importers are warning […]