Polish President Andrzej Duda has called the Russian-German natural gas pipeline project, Nord Stream 2, "a huge threat" to energy security in Europe.
Polish President Andrzej Duda has made a pitch for a permanent U.S. military base in his country and suggested that it be called Fort Trump.
Tens of thousands of North Koreans have greeted South Korean President Moon Jae-in on his visit to the capital, Pyongyang, as he made his way for talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on September 18.
Russia is holding a massive military exercise in the eastern part of the country. Moscow claims as many as 300,000 troops are taking part in military maneuvers known as Vostok-2018.
An occasional passerby could be seen laying flowers at the site of a badly-damaged café in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk controlled by Russia-backed separatists whose leader Aleksandr Zakharchenko is said to have been killed there by a blast on August 31. (Reuters)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrived in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, on August 23, kicking off a three-day trip to the South Caucasus region.
Thousands of people attended a free outdoor concert in downtown Prague on August 21 marking the 50th anniversary of the Soviet-led invasion of the former Czechoslovakia.
Russian President Vladimir Putin danced arm-in-arm with Austria's Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl at her wedding on August 18 in Gamlitz, in a video distributed by the Kremlin. (Reuters)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she would discuss the conflicts in Ukraine and Syria, as well as Iran, and the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project with Russian President Vladimir Putin during their meeting on August 18.
One was a Soviet soldier during the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, the other was imprisoned for protesting it. Now they meet in Prague. This report is based on a documentary, Spring '68, by RFE/RL's Ukrainian service.
People are still appealing to Russian authorities to release the bodies of their loved ones, six months after an air crash killed 71 people. Warning -- contains disturbing content.
A suicide bomber killed at least 48 people and wounded 67 others in a predominantly Shi'ite neighborhood in the Afghan capital, Kabul.
Fifty years ago, Soviet-led forces rolled into Czechoslovakia, ending reform efforts to create "socialism with a human face."
Afghan government forces backed by U.S. air strikes were struggling to push Taliban militants out of the southeastern city of Ghazni on August 14 as clashes continue for a fifth straight day. Video taken on August 13 shows widespread destruction.
Romanian authorities say 440 people including two dozen riot police have received medical treatment after an antigovernment protest turned violent.
Russian police have detained around 30 lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights activists who took part in an unsanctioned rally in St. Petersburg.
Russian President Vladimir Putin reviewed a St. Petersburg parade marking Russian Navy Day on July 29. The annual display on the Neva River featured 39 warships and 4,000 service members.
If opposition leader Imran Khan does become prime minister of Pakistan, he will have completed the dramatic transition from international cricket star to the leader of a nuclear-armed country.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reaffirmed during his testimony before a Senate committee on July 25 a formal U.S. policy rejecting Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula.
The death toll from forest fires in Greece has climbed to at least 74, local authorities said on July 24. The fires, near the capital Athens, are the deadliest blazes to hit the country in more than a decade.
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