French Far Right Tests Voters’ Appetite in Regional Elections 

French Far Right Tests Voters’ Appetite in Regional Elections 

French voters went to the polls on Sunday in regional elections that will test the appeal of far-right leader Marine...

June 20 Is World Refugee Day

June 20 Is World Refugee Day

Sunday is World Refugee Day. June 20 is a day designated by the United Nations to honor and celebrate the...

Parties to Iran Nuclear Deal to Meet on Sunday, EU Says

Parties to Iran Nuclear Deal to Meet on Sunday, EU Says

Parties negotiating a revival of the Iran nuclear deal will hold a formal meeting in Vienna on Sunday, the European...

Architect of European Unity Moves Ahead on Sainthood Path

Architect of European Unity Moves Ahead on Sainthood Path

Robert Schuman, a French statesman who paved the way for the bloc that eventually evolved into European Union, has moved...

Partygoers, Police Injured at Curfew-busting Rave in France 

Partygoers, Police Injured at Curfew-busting Rave in France 

French police clashed with partygoers as they tried to break up an unauthorized rave in western France, authorities said Saturday....

Tour de France to Hold Women’s Cycling Race in July 2022

Tour de France to Hold Women’s Cycling Race in July 2022

A women’s version of the Tour de France will be held in 2022 with a start on Paris’ iconic Champs-Elysees...

Taliban Tells Turkey Continued Troop Presence in Afghanistan Is ‘Unacceptable’

Taliban Tells Turkey Continued Troop Presence in Afghanistan Is ‘Unacceptable’

The Taliban said Friday its leaders already had conveyed to Turkey their opposition to any foreign troops remaining in Afghanistan...

Experts See Progress, No Breakthroughs, in European Summits

Experts See Progress, No Breakthroughs, in European Summits

President Joe Biden wrapped up a busy week of summits in Europe on Wednesday, as the United States reclaimed a...

Dozens of Migrants Rescued, Four Dead After Boat Runs Aground on Spain’s Lanzarote

Dozens of Migrants Rescued, Four Dead After Boat Runs Aground on Spain’s Lanzarote

More than 40 African migrants were rescued after their boat ran aground on the rocky coast of Lanzarote in Spain’s...

Inquiry Details 9 Missed Opportunities to Thwart British Concert Bombing

Inquiry Details 9 Missed Opportunities to Thwart British Concert Bombing

Families of the 22 people who died in the 2017 terrorist bombing of a concert at Britain’s Manchester Arena are...

EU to Hit Key Belarus Sectors After Plane Diversion

EU to Hit Key Belarus Sectors After Plane Diversion

EU foreign ministers will look to agree sanctions on key sectors of the Belarus economy Monday to punish the authorities...

UN: Forced Displacement from Conflicts Soaring Despite Pandemic

UN: Forced Displacement from Conflicts Soaring Despite Pandemic

The U.N. refugee agency, which just released its 2020 Global Trends report, said the number of people forcibly displaced last...

US Says Biden, Erdogan Agreed on Afghanistan, But S-400 Issue Unresolved

US Says Biden, Erdogan Agreed on Afghanistan, But S-400 Issue Unresolved

U.S. President Joe Biden and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed in a meeting this week that Turkey would take...

Takeaways From Biden-Putin ‘Cyber Summit’

Takeaways From Biden-Putin ‘Cyber Summit’

Cybersecurity experts have been poring over the transcripts from Wednesday’s news conferences in Geneva to determine whether the U.S.-Russia summit...

Thousands of Afghan Emigrants Deported Back to Afghanistan

Thousands of Afghan Emigrants Deported Back to Afghanistan

In an effort to escape the insecurity and war in Afghanistan, thousands of Afghans make a difficult journey to Turkey...

Facial Recognition Technology Plays Important Law Enforcement Role, but at What Cost?

Facial Recognition Technology Plays Important Law Enforcement Role, but at What Cost?

Facial recognition technology is playing an increasingly important role in helping law enforcement with criminal investigations, police say. But civil...

Facial Recognition Technology Solves Crimes, but at What Cost?

Facial Recognition Technology Solves Crimes, but at What Cost?

Even as big tech companies such as Amazon limit their sale of facial recognition software to law enforcement, one company...

At Summit With Putin, Biden Raises RFE/RL’s ‘Foreign Agent’ Designation 

At Summit With Putin, Biden Raises RFE/RL’s ‘Foreign Agent’ Designation 

During their summit in Geneva on June 16, U.S. President Joe Biden raised the issue of Kremlin pressure against RFE/RL’s...

Europe Questions Whether Biden-Putin Summit Will Stop Negative Spiral in Relations with Moscow

Europe Questions Whether Biden-Putin Summit Will Stop Negative Spiral in Relations with Moscow

U.S. President Joe Biden and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, remained tensely civil and cautiously polite before their much-anticipated summit...

Finding a Face on the Internet: Police are Increasingly Using Facial Recognition Technology but at What Cost?

Finding a Face on the Internet: Police are Increasingly Using Facial Recognition Technology but at What Cost?

Facial recognition technology is playing an increasingly important role in helping law enforcement with criminal investigations, police say. But civil...

Climate-Related Drought Disasters Threaten Development, UN Warns

Climate-Related Drought Disasters Threaten Development, UN Warns

The United Nations warns accelerating climate change is causing a dramatic intensification of global drought disasters, which are threatening agricultural...

UK, US Strike Deal Over Airbus-Boeing Dispute

UK, US Strike Deal Over Airbus-Boeing Dispute

Britain on Thursday said it had agreed on a truce with the United States over a 17-year long tariffs dispute...