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1 month ago | 
rferl.org | Rikard Jozwiak |Todd Prince |Kian Sharifi |Russian Drones
A US federal judge ruled that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) likely violated the Constitution when it attempted to shut down the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and it ordered DOGE to cease further action against the agency.
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1 month ago | 
rferl.org | Rikard Jozwiak |Todd Prince |Kian Sharifi |Russian Drones
BUDAPEST -- Hungary's parliament has passed an amendment that will ban the annual LGBT Pride march on the grounds that it could be considered "harmful to children."The amendment to the country's assembly law was fast-tracked through parliament by the ruling right-wing Fidesz party of Prime Minister Viktor Orban and passed with 136 votes in favor, 27 against, and no abstentions.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
rferl.org | Todd Prince |Mike Eckel |Russian Drones
President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to be the top U.S. diplomat, said it is “unrealistic” to believe that Ukraine’s armed forces can push Russian troops back to pre-invasion lines and that Kyiv will have to make concessions to Moscow to end the war sparked by Russia's full-scale invasion. RFE/RL's Ukraine Live Briefing gives you the latest developments on Russia's invasion, Western military aid, the plight of civilians, and territorial control maps.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
rferl.org | Mike Eckel |Russian Drones
Authorities in Kosovo raided municipal offices in 10 Serbia-backed areas as the government continues to press the closure of so-called parallel institutions that gave Belgrade leverage in its former province.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
rferl.org | Mike Eckel |Russian Drones |Todd Prince |Kian Sharifi
The Belarusian state TV channel ONT has aired the first segment of a propaganda film about RFE/RL journalists held in Belarusian prisons, accusing them of "trying to set Belarus on fire."The series, Svaboda Slova (Freedom of Speech), appears aimed at discrediting independent journalists who have been reporting on government abuses and repression in the country just weeks before voting begins in a presidential election.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
rferl.org | Mike Eckel |Russian Drones |Todd Prince |Kian Sharifi
Russia’s foreign minister signaled that Moscow was ready to hear from President-elect Donald Trump and advisers on proposals to resolve the Ukraine war, saying the incoming administration had "started to acknowledge the realities on the ground."The comments from Sergei Lavrov, made during an annual news conference on January 14, were the latest in a series of remarks by Russian officials ahead of potential cease-fire proposals for the conflict, which will mark its third anniversary next month.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
rferl.org | Russian Drones |Todd Prince |Kian Sharifi |Olena Abramovych
WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden told the nation that the United States is stronger economically and militarily and has more allies today compared with four years ago as he prepares to leave office later this month. In a speech at the State Department on January 13 summing up his administration’s record, Biden said the United States has widened its lead over competitors like Russia and China. “Our adversaries are weaker than they were when we came into this job four years ago.
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
rferl.org | Russian Drones |Todd Prince |Kian Sharifi |Olena Abramovych
Thousands of people rallied in the Romanian capital, Bucharest, on January 12 to protest the December annulment of the presidential election in which right-wing, pro-Russian candidate Calin Georgescu won the first round. Protests have been continuing in Romania since December 6 when the Constitutional Court canceled the election two days before the second round amid allegations of Russian interference.
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
rferl.org | Russian Drones |Todd Prince |Kian Sharifi |Olena Abramovych
South Korea confirmed that Ukraine had captured two North Korean soldiers a day after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said his security agency was questioning two fighters taken in Russia’s Kursk region. "Through real-time cooperation with Ukraine's intelligence agency...[South Korea's National Intelligence Service] has confirmed that the Ukrainian military captured two North Korean soldiers on January 9 in the Kursk battlefield in Russia," Seoul said in a statement.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
rferl.org | Russian Drones |Todd Prince |Kian Sharifi |Olena Abramovych
Afghanistan’s hard-line Taliban rulers have shunned a major international conference on girls’ education in the Muslim world. On January 11, no Taliban were present among the representatives of some 50 Muslim-majority countries when the two-day conference opened in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad. “So far, Kabul has not told us anything about this event,” a senior Taliban diplomat told RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal.
