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

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.

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

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

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

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 ...

After a year of unprecedented trade and breaking ground on major mining projects in 2024, there's new momentum for Beijing's role in Afghanistan and deepening ties with the Taliban. But can the ...

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai, who stated she was “honored” and “overwhelmed” to be at the event, said she will hold Afghanistan's Taliban rulers "accountable" for rights violations when ...

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

Four men suspected of planning terrorist attacks have been arrested in western North Macedonia, Interior Minister Pance Toskovski said on December 15. RFE/RL has learnt that hundreds of foreign ...