Georgian protesters clash with police for 2nd night after EU talks suspended

Georgian protesters clash with police for 2nd night after EU talks suspended

TBILISI, GEORGIA — Thousands of demonstrators protesting the Georgian government’s decision to suspend negotiations to join the European Union rallied outside...

North Korea: Russia has right to exercise self-defense against Ukraine 

North Korea: Russia has right to exercise self-defense against Ukraine 

seoul — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has told the Russian defense minister that Ukraine’s use of long-range weapons is...

From VOA Russian: Who is the Belarusian soldier extradited from Vietnam to Minsk?

From VOA Russian: Who is the Belarusian soldier extradited from Vietnam to Minsk?

Vietnam has extradited Vasil Veremeychik, a former anti-Alexander Lukashenko activist who later became a soldier in Ukraine’s Kastus Kalinouski Regiment....

Ukraine asks NATO for membership invite next week, letter shows

Ukraine asks NATO for membership invite next week, letter shows

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha has urged his NATO counterparts to issue an invitation at a meeting in Brussels next...

Notre Dame Cathedral unveils new interior 5 years after devastating fire 

Notre Dame Cathedral unveils new interior 5 years after devastating fire 

After more than five years of frenetic reconstruction work, Notre Dame Cathedral showed its new self to the world Friday,...

Wounded Ukrainian veteran building and sending drones to front lines

Wounded Ukrainian veteran building and sending drones to front lines

Vinnytsia resident Vyacheslav Strazhets lost his right arm in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but even as an amputee, he is...

Russia’s war in Ukraine inspires exiled journalist to found media startup

Russia’s war in Ukraine inspires exiled journalist to found media startup

PRAGUE — Lola Tagaeva has no problem acknowledging that she is not an easy boss. But when you’re running a startup...

Ireland votes as incumbents hope to cling to power

Ireland votes as incumbents hope to cling to power

DUBLIN — Ireland is voting Friday in a parliamentary election that will decide the next government — and will show whether...

Over a year after Wagner Group leader’s death, Russian mercenaries aren’t going away

Over a year after Wagner Group leader’s death, Russian mercenaries aren’t going away

When Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin was killed in an August 2023 plane crash, many analysts said his death could mark...

Putin threatens Kyiv with new hypersonic cruise missile

Putin threatens Kyiv with new hypersonic cruise missile

Russian President Vladimir Putin Thursday threatened to strike “decision-making centers in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, with Russia’s new Oreshnik hypersonic...

Chad ends defense cooperation agreement with France

Chad ends defense cooperation agreement with France

N’DJAMENA, chad — Chad’s government said Thursday that it had ended its defense cooperation pact with France, a move that could...

From VOA Russian: Former Moscow lawmaker Alexei Gorinov staged anti-war protest in courtroom cage

From VOA Russian: Former Moscow lawmaker Alexei Gorinov staged anti-war protest in courtroom cage

Former Moscow lawmaker Alexei Gorinov, serving a seven-year prison sentence for criticizing Russia’s war in Ukraine, unfurled an anti-war banner...

From VOA Russian: Wagner Group’s future a year after Prigozhin’s death

From VOA Russian: Wagner Group’s future a year after Prigozhin’s death

Previously all-powerful, the Wagner Group has slowly been reduced in size and dismantled in many of the countries it operated...