A court in Kyiv placed former longtime Odesa mayor Hennadiy Trukhanov under round-the-clock house arrest for 60 days on charges of official negligence, weeks after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stripped him of Ukrainian citizenship.| Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
For the past year, Serbian students have been leading nationwide street protests demanding accountability after a railway station collapse that killed 16 people. But are the Serbian nationalists now taking control of the narrative?| Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
A series of Russian air strikes on the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy has damaged residential areas, injuring at least 11 people, including four children, as Ukrainian forces targeted energy infrastructure inside Russia.| Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
This edition of the Farda Briefing looks at reports that Iran is taking deliveries of a precursor for solid missile propellant from China to replenish its missile stockpile.| Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
The death of Roman Sopin has focused heightened attention on Ukraine’s manpower problems and the violence that recruiters sometimes use against men they are seeking to bring into the military.| Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
Other NATO members will provide troops to fill the void created by the departure of US soldiers from Romania, the country's Foreign Minister Oana Toiu told RFE/RL, leaving the alliance with a “stronger" presence.| Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
Russian missile and drone strikes across Ukraine have killed at least five people and injured tens of others, including children, as Russian troops step up assaults around the country’s strategic eastern city of Pokrovsk.| Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
Amid escalating global tensions, US President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping have concluded high-stakes talks in South Korea.| Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
Pro-Russian Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik and dozens of his family members and allies have been removed from the US sanctions list.| Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
Russia had tested a new nuclear-capable, nuclear-powered long-range remote torpedo, President Vladimir Putin said, a weapon that some experts have dubbed a "doomsday machine."| Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
A St. Petersburg singer whose antiwar songs and impromptu street gigs have drawn an impassioned following had her jail detention extended, after a court ruled one of the lyrics to her music contained an expletive.| Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
The United States is significantly reducing its military presence in Romania, in what a NATO official called “adjustments to US force posture,” amid Moscow’s war against neighboring Ukraine and heightened European concern about Russian incursions into NATO airspace.| Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
Negotiations for a lasting truce between Afghanistan and Pakistan have broken down, Pakistani Information Minister Attaullah Tarar said on October 29 after four days of negotiations brokered by Qatar and Turkey.| Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
Georgia's ruling party will ask the Constitutional Court to outlaw the three largest opposition parties, which are all strongly pro-Western, a senior member of the ruling Georgian Dream party said on October 28.| RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
A 29-year-old Tajik man has died in custody after he was detained at Dushanbe airport. Authorities accused of Islamic extremism, an allegation that his family vehemently denies.| RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
As global leaders convene for a summit on resolving the Gaza war, Iran’s absence has sparked debate over missed diplomatic opportunities. The summit follows a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, yet Iran’s rejection of a formal invitation underscores divides and dissent over its foreign policy.| RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze threatened anti-government activists with further arrests as tensions remained high in the Caucasus nation following a weekend of mass protests in the country's capital, Tbilisi.| RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
Former Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis, after scoring a dramatic political comeback in the October 4 parliamentary elections, looked to reassure the West over his commitment to the EU and NATO, but he may be forced to partner with even-more Eurosceptic partners to form a government.| RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
Former Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis has made a dramatic political comeback, winning parliamentary elections four years after losing power, but now faces tough talks on forming a governing majority in a vote that’s being watched internationally for its impact on Prague’s policy on Ukraine.| RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
Immigration lawyer Ali Herischi warns that US deportations of Iranian migrants are “very dangerous,” separating families and sending low-priority cases back in shackles. Critics say the policy risks returning dissidents and religious converts to persecution in Iran.| RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
This edition of the Farda Briefing looks at how hard-line media in Iran view US President Donald Trump's plan to end the Gaza war.| RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
Polish authorities have detained a Ukrainian man suspected of involvement in the 2022 explosions that damaged the Nord Stream gas pipelines running under the Baltic Sea from Russia to Germany, prosecutors in Warsaw said on September 30.| RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
She has not yet taken the stage, but upcoming performances by Russian soprano Anna Netrebko at Britain’s Royal Opera House have drawn angry criticism from Kyiv and prompted protests in London as Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine rages on.| RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
US President Donald Trump's decision to impose a 50 percent tariff on Indian goods over its Russian oil imports has escalated tensions between Washington and one of its key Indo-Pacific allies.| RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
Ukrainian drone operators have equipped small UAVs with net launchers that can intercept Russian drones flying above the battlefield. Soldiers who spoke to RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service say the unorthodox defense has helped neutralize Russian attacks and offers infantry life-saving protection.| RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, bolstered by the presence of key European allies, will meet President Donald Trump on August 18 in a session that could help decide his embattled nation's future, even as Trump appeared to shift the burden to Zelenskyy to end the war with Russia.| RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
More than 340 people have been killed in northwestern Pakistan, where thousands of rescuers struggled through rain and mud following deadly landslides and flooding that buried villages.| RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
European leaders are set to join Ukrainian President Zelenskyy’s planned meeting with US President Donald Trump to discuss steps toward ending the war in Ukraine, as Moscow and Kyiv continue to exchange air strikes.| RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claimed battlefield gains on its eastern front against Russian forces on August 16 as both sides sought military advantages ahead of Zelenskyy’s planned White House meeting with President Donald Trump.| RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
A much-anticipated summit between US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin has broken up without a deal on a cease-fire in Ukraine and with neither man taking questions from journalists at a news conference.| RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
Russian regulators moved to restrict the popular messaging apps WhatsApp and Telegram, the latest in a major step to push Russians onto a newly launched government-managed "super app."| RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, and British and Polish prime ministers Keir Starmer and Donald Tusk have jointly called on Russia to agree to a full and unconditional 30-day cease-fire, while pledging increased support for Ukraine.| RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
US tariffs on defense components risk disrupting arms supplies to Ukraine, raising costs and straining NATO supply chains. Bosnia, a key ammunition producer backed by US investment, could be caught in the middle.| RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
