Headlines- The US would not lift sanctions against Iran in return for a complete reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, according to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who further states that any sanctions relief is conditional upon Iran giving up enriched uranium.
- The Kuwaiti army claims that loud noises heard around the country are the result of interceptions and that it is responding to drone and missile attacks.
- On Tuesday, U.S. Central Command disabled an oil ship for allegedly violating the U.S. naval blockade in the Arabian Gulf.
- According to President Donald Trump, talks with Iran are still ongoing, but "one never knows" where they will end.
- Resuming hostilities in the conflict with the United States appears "inevitable," a senior Iranian military general who stated on Tuesday that "the Iranian nation will never surrender."
- A memorial honoring the victims of the 1994 genocide inaugurated in Paris on Tuesday by French President Emmanuel Macron and his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame.
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Historic Kashgar Mosque Open for Tourists,But...
Chinese authorities have begun selling tickets to tourists to visit the historic Id Kah Mosque in Kashgar – where they have prohibited Muslim Uyghurs from praying for years except for certain holy days and for propaganda purposes, officials in the ancient city in Xinjiang said.
Kalush Residents React to Their hometown...
Kalush residents were overjoyed when their hometown band won the Eurovision Song Contest. On May 16, RFE/RL spoke with Kalush residents about their feelings in the following of the Eurovision victory RFE/RL
Ukrainians Queue To Purchase Defiant Snake...
Thousands of people queued outside Kyiv’s main post office to purchase a stamp honoring defiant Ukrainian border guards on Snake Island. They refused to surrender to the Russian battleship Moskva, which sank in February
Russians Are Concerned Their family Members...
Russian family members of people in Ukraine describe their daily exchanges in vox pops shot in various cities on April 6-13, and share their concerns, not only about their relatives’ safety but also — in some cases — about whether Ukrainians are being led astray by news from non-approved, non-Russian sources RFE/RL
Injured Ukrainians Transported to Lviv, Where...
Civilians in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region who have been injured by Russian shelling are being taken to Lviv, in western Ukraine, for medical treatment. Doctors there are able to undertake more sophisticated surgery, and one woman’s seriously wounded arm is currently being saved
Ukraine’s Evacuated Orphans Are Rescued From...
Nearly 6,000 orphans have been evacuated from Ukraine’s war zone. They can’t be adopted during the war, according to Ukrainian law
Two Sides of War
Roman and Ksenia are both soldiers in the Ukrainian Army, and they were married on March 20 in Kyiv.On the other hand,power.Stepan Shpak, a two-year-old boy, was killed in shelling by the Russian Army in Novye Petrivtsy, near Kiev on March 16
In Lviv, Empty Strollers for the...
On March 18, 109 empty strollers were put throughout Lviv’s old town to symbolize the children who have died as a result of Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine
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Hundreds of miners protested in front of a government building in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, against salary cuts and worsening working conditions
In Hungary, A Young Afghan Immigrant...
Jan Mersa Mohammad was a small child when his family left Afghanistan’s conflict, walking and sailing part of the way to Europe. Jan, now 14 and living in Budapest, feels at ease in his new country and aspires to be a professional soccer player