U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has reiterated warnings about the planned Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline during meetings in Berlin with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Foreign Minister Heiko Maas on June 23. Read more here. The post RFE/RL: Bl...

New COVID-19 infections in the U.S. will tick higher this fall as the highly contagious delta variant spreads, epidemiologist Dr. Anne Rimoin warned on June 23. Read more here. The post CNBC: Epidemiologist warns COVID cases will rise in the fall as ...

Ukraine has registered 937 new cases of COVID-19 as of 9 a.m. on June 24. The total number of cases in the country since the start of the pandemic is over 2.2 million. In the past 24 hours, 2,471 COVID-19 patients have recovered and 58 have died. Sin...

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopted a strict comprehensive resolution calling on the occupying power, the Russian Federation, to ensure that the rights of the Crimean Tatar people are respected, international law is observed, ...

UNITED NATIONS — Russia previewed a showdown with the United Nations, United States and Western nations on June 24 over the delivery of humanitarian aid to rebel-held northwest Syria from Turkey, rejecting their warnings that closing the only borde...

MINSK – The trial of Belarusian video blogger Sergei Tsikhanousky and several other opposition figures is scheduled to start on June 24 inside a detention center in the southeastern city of Homel. Read more here. The post RFE/RL: Trial of Belarusia...

UNITED NATIONS — The United States, Britain and France accused Russian mercenaries on June 24 of operating alongside Central African Republic forces and committing human rights violations against civilians and obstructing U.N. peacekeeping — ...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has called on Germany to take concrete steps to reduce the risks the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline poses to Ukraine. Read more here. The post UkrInform: Blinken calls on Merkel to reduce risks Nord Stream 2 poses t...

Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko has warned that his country will not try to stem a flow of illegal migrants to the European Union, a move that comes after the EU tightened its sanctions on the country. Read more here. The post...

BRUSSELS – European Union leaders will on June 24 consider whether to seek a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin as part of a new strategy to manage relations with Moscow that the EU says are in a “negative spiral”. Read mo...