The Trump administration has escalated the decades-long embargo on Cuba by completely cutting off the island’s access to oil. And the results have been devastating. […]
Year: 2026
US-South Korea Alliance Faces a Test beyond Political Rhetoric
By: Andy Wong Ming Jun US-South Korean bilateral ties have come under increasing strain, with months of political bickering now spilling into the operational sphere. […]
Ukraine war update: It will be a brutal fall and winter
In a war, length is far more important than ferocity. Trying to keep a war from escalating might seem like a prudent thing (and academic […]
Poland’s anti-Ukrainian turn spills into violence
WARSAW — Poland’s nationalist right is turning hostility toward the country’s roughly 1.5 million Ukrainians into a potent political issue, tapping into local resentment over […]
Russia has entered Sweden’s election campaign, center-left front-runner warns
STOCKHOLM — Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson must urgently take action to address claims that his potential far-right coalition partner may have been infiltrated by Russia […]
At least 25 dead in Cape Verde bus crash, most of them children and teenagers
At least 25 people, mostly children and teenagers, were killed in a bus crash on Cape Verde’s Fogo Island, public radio network RCV said on […]
Sandwich generation navigating work, elderly parents and kids at home
Broadcaster and author Sarah Macdonald is part of a growing army of silent unpaid workers, coping with the consequences of a housing crisis and a […]
Inquest told use of taser on 95yo Clare Nowland was ‘excessive’
Three years after the great-grandmother was tasered by a police officer in her aged care home, an inquest has heard from police and ambulance officers […]
Alienation of Affections as Complicity
In the discussion of the Kyrsten Sinema alienation of affections case, several commenters took roughly the following view: Spouses have promised fidelity to each other, […]
Gloria Steinem, groundbreaking feminist campaigner, dies aged 92
Prolific author campaigned against domestic violence, female genital mutilation, pornography and the Vietnam and Gulf wars ‘We badly need to raise our boys more like […]
FDA’s UPF definition may lack legal force, but not policy impact
FDA submitted its proposed ultra-processed food definition as a white paper instead of a rule. Here’s what that means for food labeling, reformulation and future […]
K-Beauty’s Brazil Push Signals a New Type of Korean Diplomacy
As strange as it sounds, the Korean beauty industry is playing an increasingly important role in Seoul’s foreign policy calculus.
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Iran Raising Gasoline Prices For Heavy Users As Sanctions, Blockade Bite
As the conflict in the Persian Gulf continues to impact and shape the region, journalists from RFE/RL’s Central Newsroom and Iranian service, Radio Farda, deliver […]
Zelenskyy Calls For Trilateral Negotiations With Russia After ‘Substantial’ Talks With US Envoys
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called for the resumption of trilateral negotiations between the United States and Russia as US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared […]
Germany’s far-right AfD scores its biggest win
BERLIN — Germany’s far right claimed its biggest electoral success since World War II in Sunday’s regional vote in Saxony-Anhalt, with the Alternative for Germany […]
Measles death undercuts RFK Jr.’s doubts
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has acknowledged that measles caused the death of a Pennsylvania infant, days after reports revealed that he asked the […]
Trump’s “small potatoes” Iran War keeps escalating
Iran threatened a “faster, heavier and more painful” response to further U.S. attacks Sunday as the six-month conflict between the two countries escalated again at […]
Trump makes bonkers admission on stock trading amid defensive rant: ‘I’ve made billions’
President Donald Trump took to Truth Social Sunday to make a startling admission regarding the tens of thousands of stock trades he’s made during his […]
Bipartisan giggles over GOP Convention price tags: ‘Grist to the mill of the grift’
There was a bipartisan roasting on MS NOW Sunday afternoon as a Republican strategist and former Democratic lawmaker joyfully mocked President Donald Trump’s midterm convention. […]