Charles Recknagel is standards editor for RFE/RL.
The European Union has called on Iran to conclude a new agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) "without delay" to answer questions about possible military dimensions of the Islamic republic's nuclear program.
The United Nations nuclear watchdog and Iran have scheduled a meeting for June 8 as the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) seeks to secure access to investigate activities at Iran's Parchin military site.
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has denied press reports it might exclude countries with poor human rights records from hosting future Eurovision contests.
Someone is infecting Iran's computers with what experts call "the most powerful virus to date." Here are four things to know about the virus, dubbed Flame.
World powers are meeting in Baghdad with Iran this week over the Islamic republic's controversial nuclear program. Here are five things to know ahead of time.
As the long-awaited trial of Ratko Mladic began in The Hague on May 16, one country was not watching. Serbia.
When NATO meets in Chicago, Washington will be looking for partners to help fund Afghanistan's security needs after 2014. Any takers?
Serbs go to the polls on May 6 for simultaneous presidential, parliamentary, and local polls. But many voters see little new in their choices.
Another of Peshawar's landmark bookstores is closing -- the third in two years. The closures leave the city ever more isolated in the war of ideas with jihadists.
The World Bank says food prices are rising due to higher oil prices and bad weather. But prices could fall again thanks to good harvests expected later this year.
In Armenia, people often regard forests as sources of timber to sell. But one group of activists is planting trees to show forests are just as valuable when they are left alone.
The new president of the World Bank is a 52-year-old U.S. health expert and educator who was born in South Korea. With a background in hands-on health development programs in some of the world's poorest countries, he is very different from previous bank chiefs.
Washington has placed a $10 million bounty on one of Pakistan's most prominent radical Islamist leaders. But with no charges against him in Pakistan, can the bounty lead to his arrest?
The self-immolation of a boy in Pakistan who could not afford a school uniform has shocked those who knew him. It also underlines how much children from poor families in the Pashtun region need help to stay in school.
Russia, Central Asia, and the Caucasus could reap a bonanza in transit fees as NATO brings home materiel from Afghanistan.
As political pressure grows in the United States for a more rapid drawdown of forces in Afghanistan, a key question is how soon the Afghan National Army will be ready to defend the country by itself.
The world's biggest interbank transfer network, SWIFT, says it will no longer handle transactions by Iranian banks blacklisted by the EU. In this quick explainer, RFE/RL looks at how the move will limit Iran's ability to trade internationally amid controversy over its nuclear activities.
As Iran gears up for parliamentary elections on March 2, RFE/RL looks at the key issues that are expected to dominate proceedings, as well as the personalities who should feature prominently.
Facebook is preparing to sell stock that could bring it an additional $5 billion dollars to invest in what it's founder calls a "social mission." What will it do with the money?
Violence is increasing as Iraq goes through its worst crisis since U.S. troops left in mid-December. Many see the escalating violence as part and parcel of political feuding in Baghdad.
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