Eugen Tomiuc is a senior correspondent for RFE/RL.
Officials in Afghanistan’s northwestern province of Faryab say a young woman in a remote village has had her nose cut off by her husband.
The trial of a Russian soldier accused of killing an Armenian family of seven has resumed in Armenia's northwestern city of Gyumri.
The Romanian president's fears of a political crisis could be realized now that the country's prime minister has rejected calls to step down after he was indicted for corruption.
A FIFA-sponsored, star-studded film is poised for U.S. release, but it arrives too late to salvage the battered image of world football's governing body or its embattled boss, Sepp Blatter.
Romanian forensic specialists say they have found the burnt remains that may have come from masterpieces stolen last year from a Dutch art gallery. The remains were found in the oven of a woman whose son is one of several people charged with stealing seven multimillion-dollar paintings -- including a Matisse, a Picasso, and a Monet.
Both the United States and the EU see a free trade agreement as the way to jump-start their economies. So why does Europe’s film industry want out?
A former top intelligence aide to the late Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu argues in a new book that the roots of today's terrorism against Israel and the United States were planted by the Soviet Union in the 1970s.
The United Nations launched an ambitious 10-year project to combat desertification in 2006. As the UN marks World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought seven years later, there is little to show for the effort.
Reports surfaced last week exposing secret U.S. government surveillance programs that gather, store, and analyze billions of domestic and foreign phone and Internet records. U.S. officials say data gathering on such a large scale is instrumental in combating terrorism. Rights groups say it encroaches on civil liberties. RFE/RL looks at the main components of the surveillance programs.
The dramatic drop in life expectancy in Russia and much of the former Soviet Union has yet to be reversed, according to a recent study.
Israel's recent apology for killing Turkish activists during a 2010 raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla was met internationally with a sigh of relief. Turkey was once considered Israel's closest Muslim partner and the raid caused a split that had far-reaching economic and diplomatic implications. RFE/RL looks at the impact the countries' recent rapprochement could have in the Middle East.
Water resources and their management -- with a focus on the role of water in food security and dam construction -- are on tap for debate at this year's World Water Week.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange may be the most famous person to be granted political asylum in Ecuador. But he isn't the only one. Alyaksandr Barankou fled Belarus in 2009 and was later granted asylum by Ecuador after claiming he was being persecuted after seeking to expose official corruption. But now, Ecuador may revoke his status and extradite him.
European Union leaders have reprimanded Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta in unusually harsh terms for his government's drive to oust the president and curtail the powers of the judiciary.
Romania's Prime Minister Victor Ponta has assured the European Union that his government would respect the rule of law after drawing fierce criticism over moves to impeach the president and weaken the judiciary.
Romania's Constitutional Court on July 10 ruled that a majority of the eligible voters must turn out for a referendum on ousting President Traian Basescu to be valid.
Romania's ruling majority is opening procedures to suspend President Traian Basescu after parliamentary speakers were sacked and the powers of top judges were curbed.
Romania's Constitutional Court has accused leftist Prime Minister Victor Ponta of trying to dismantle it and said it has notified EU authorities of threats to its independence.
Most of the world's Muslims who observe the Norouz holiday see it as a celebration of spring and a new beginning, an occasion for joy and optimism. But the holiday has long been a political and religious point of contention as well.
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