U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un signed a document after talks in Singapore. Trump said the process of denuclearizing the Korean peninsula would now start "very quickly" while Kim said it was a "historic meeting" where the two leaders decided "to leave the past behind.
At a news conference in Kyiv on May 31, a dissident Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko blasted "the keepers of morality” who criticized his faked assassination staged by Ukrainian authorities.
Irish pro-choice campaigners celebrated exit poll results on May 26 indicating that their country had voted overwhelmingly to repeal a 1983 constitutional ban on abortions.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, met on May 24 in St. Petersburg to discuss the Iran nuclear deal as well as the conflicts in Syria and Ukraine.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told the House Foreign Affairs Committee on May 23 that the Trump administration will not tolerate Russian interference in the 2018 congressional midterm elections.
Speaking after a high school shooting in Texas left at least eight people dead on May 18, U.S. President Donald Trump said his administration will do all it can to "protect our students [and] secure our schools." Trump also said that similar violence has "been going too long in our country."
Polls opened across Iraq on May 12 in the country's first parliamentary elections since Baghdad declared victory over the Islamic State militant group last year. The vote is being conducted electronically for the first time to reduce fraud.
Protesters in Tehran and across Iran took to the streets on May 11 to condemn the unilateral withdrawal of the United States from the landmark 2015 nuclear agreement.
U.S. President Donald Trump welcomed home three Americans released by North Korea at an air base near Washington on May 10.
Iranian President Hassan Rohani said the decision by U.S. President Donald Trump to withdraw from the nuclear deal showed that the United States "never abides by its commitments."
U.S. President Donald Trump has announced the United States is withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal, adding that the "highest level of economic sanction" will now be imposed on Iran.
Vladimir Putin made an emotional appeal to Russian patriotism, saying his country had a long history of overcoming challenges and making mighty leaps forward, as he was sworn in for a fourth term as Russian president at a glittering ceremony in the Kremlin.
Two RFE/RL journalists were among at least 25 people killed in a double suicide bombing in the Afghan capital, Kabul on April 30.
