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1 week ago | 
romania.europalibera.org | Golnaz Esfandiari |Kian Sharifi |Hannah Kaviani
Atunci când Israelul i-a avertizat pe locuitorii uneia dintre cele mai luxoase și mai dens populate zone din Teheran – Districtul 3 – să evacueze zona, pentru că vor urma atacuri aeriene în zonă, anxietatea, deja ridicată, a crescut și mai mult. Ambele țări – Israelul și Iranul – au executat atacuri aeriene una asupra celeilalte în ultimele zile, provocând numeroase victime în rândul civililor. Însă cele mai intense atacuri au fost la Teheran.
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1 week ago | 
rferl.org | Golnaz Esfandiari |Hannah Kaviani |Kian Sharifi
When Israel issued a warning to residents of one of Tehran's most upscale and densely populated areas, District 3, to evacuate saying it intended to carry out air strikes in the area, already heightened anxiety rose even further. Both countries have carried out air strikes on each other in recent days, inflicting scores of civilian casualties along the way. But the most intense attacks have come in Tehran.
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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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Mar 29, 2025 | 
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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Mar 29, 2025 | 
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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Mar 29, 2025 | 
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.
