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2 months ago | 
rferl.org | Kian Sharifi |Rikard Jozwiak |Golnaz Esfandiari |Mehran Karimi
US lawmakers and experts at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing underscored a rare bipartisan consensus -- preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons as a top priority. However, divisions remain over how far Washington should go in applying pressure versus pursuing diplomacy. Republican lawmakers strongly supported the Donald Trump administration’s decision to reinstate the “maximum pressure” campaign that defined his Iran policy during his first term as US president.
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2 months ago | 
rferl.org | Rikard Jozwiak |Merhat Sharipzhan |Ray Furlong |Kian Sharifi
European Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos has emphasized the “need to protect Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL),” warning that "if we don’t, we hand a gift to autocrats the world over."Her remarks came during a debate in the European Parliament plenary in Strasbourg on April 1 that focused on safeguarding access to democratic media, including RFE/RL.
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2 months ago | 
rferl.org | Merhat Sharipzhan |Ray Furlong |Kian Sharifi
The Romanian Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) has extended supervision measures for another 60 days against against Andrew Tate and his brother, Tristan, who are awaiting trial on charges of human trafficking, rape, and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women. The brothers appeared at DIICOT's headquarters on April 1, where judicial sources confirmed the extension to RFE/RL.
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2 months ago | 
rferl.org | Ray Furlong |Kian Sharifi |Margot Buff |Austin Malloy
Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik announced on March 31 that he had arrived in Moscow after prosecutors in Bosnia-Herzegovina requested an international arrest warrant over accusations that he flouted the Balkan country’s constitution. Dodik posted a video of himself on social media in front of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier along the wall of the Kremlin.
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2 months ago | 
rferl.org | Ray Furlong |Kian Sharifi |Margot Buff |Austin Malloy
Rescue teams have recovered a submerged military vehicle in Lithuania that was carrying four US soldiers who remain missing. The M88 Hercules armored vehicle was retrieved early March 31, six days after a rescue operation was launched at the Pabrade military training ground near Lithuania's border with BelarusLithuanian Defense Minister Davile Sakaliene said that the fate of the four soldiers has yet to be determined.
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2 months ago | 
rferl.org | Ray Furlong |Kian Sharifi |Margot Buff |Austin Malloy
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on March 29 pleaded for a "strong response" from Ukraine’s Western partners as deadly Russian attacks mounted, including air strikes on a Kharkiv military hospital and on the cities of Dnipro and Kryviy Rih. “Our partners should clearly understand: These strikes are not just attacks on Ukrainian civilians, but also on all international efforts -- on the very diplomacy we are trying to use to end this war," Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address.
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2 months ago | 
rferl.org | Ray Furlong |Todd Prince |Kian Sharifi |Margot Buff
Police in the Netherlands said on March 29 that a man suspected of a stabbing rampage that wounded five people in Amsterdam is a Ukrainian national from the eastern Donetsk region. The 30-year-old man is suspected of using multiple knives to randomly stab five people in a busy shopping area in central Amsterdam on March 27 and is set to appear in court on April 1, police said in a statement. The motive for the attack remains unclear, and the investigation remains ongoing, police said.
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2 months ago | 
rferl.org | Ray Furlong |Todd Prince |Kian Sharifi |Margot Buff
At least seven soldiers and six suspected militants were killed during a military operation in northwestern Pakistan, a Pakistani intelligence official told RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaalon March 29. The deadly encounter erupted a day earlier during an operation in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, where Pakistani forces regularly conduct counterterrorism sweeps, an official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak with the media.
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2 months ago | 
rferl.org | Ray Furlong |Todd Prince |Kian Sharifi |Margot Buff
A Russian drone attack on the southeastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro late on March 28 killed four people and sparked a large fire in a hotel and restaurant complex and multiple private homes, the regional governor said. "According to the information we have at the moment, there are 4 deaths in Dnipro," said Serhiy Lysak, governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region, on Telegram. Russian forces used more than 20 drones in the strike on Dnipro, which also injured 19.
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2 months ago | 
rferl.org | Ray Furlong |Todd Prince |Kian Sharifi |Margot Buff
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is continuing legal action against the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM) to secure the release of congressionally appropriated funding, it said in a statement on March 28. USAGM oversees RFE/RL and other US international media.
