Satellite images of key lakes and reservoirs across Iran reveal the extent of the country's crippling drought crisis. New photos show how water levels have dropped dramatically compared to images taken a year ago. Iran's water crisis stems mainly from reduced rainfall and mismanagement of resources.
For 80 years after the bombing of Hiroshima, the airfields of Tinian Island, from where the bombers took off, were mostly abandoned to the jungle. Now, amid a push to strengthen America's military strength in waters near Taiwan, the historic airfields are being restored for use by modern bombers.
A small band of explorers are cracking into the radioactive mines where the Kremlin once used slave labor to dig out its uranium for nuclear weapons during the Cold War.
Amid years of political failure and military deadlock, protesters around the world have used art, and in some cases vandalism outside Russian embassies to make their feelings known about the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine.
An art exhibition in Moscow has showcased North Koreans fighting Ukrainian troops, a facet of the Russian invasion which the Kremlin once dismissed as "fake news."
A series of Russian strikes targeting trains and railway infrastructure have raised fears the Kremlin is probing Ukraine's response to supply disruptions amid Russia's ongoing war on Ukraine.
Since 2020, Czechia has renamed streets and landmarks around the Russian embassy in Prague after adversaries of the Kremlin. Then, in late September 2025 the Czech embassy in Moscow was vandalized, and Czechia banned entry for unaccredited Russian diplomats.
A Russian missile slammed into apartment buildings in Kyiv. Among them was a five-story building in the city's Darnytsia district, where the overwhelmingly majority of the 23 victims lived.
During 25 years in office, Russian leader Vladimir Putin has met five different US presidents -- Bill Clinton, George W Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden -- a total 48 times. On August 15, he will meet with Trump in Alaska.
Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the 33rd week of 2025 from around RFE/RL's coverage region.
Ukrainians shelter from Russian bombardments in Kyiv and other regions as the Continent swelters in the summer temperatures.
Driving subway trains was once deemed too "dangerous and harmful," for women. But amid a manpower shortage in Ukraine, women have begun filling the underground role.
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