The Latest Breaking News on War in Ukraine

IN DEPTH: Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko has vowed to stop the balloons from flying into Lithuania after pressure from the US. But experts tell Isabella Redmayne that they form a vital part of a wider campaign to destabilise the Baltic country

Three years after 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died after being arrested for failing to cover her head, more and more women are pushing the boundaries of Iran's strict morality laws and going out in public without a hijab. One Iranian woman tells RFI why she sees dropping her headscarf as an…

France has not had a mandatory military service for nearly three decades. Today, as Russia multiplies its threats on the edge of Europe, the country is considering how to boost its military capacity – and that includes growing the armed forces. As a new, voluntary military service aims to recruit…

White House official confirms Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff will meet with Zelenskyy and European leaders this weekend.

Belarusian authorities have freed 123 prisoners, including Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski and key opposition figures Maria Kolesnikova and Viktar Babaryka, as part of a deal with Washington that lifted U.S. sanctions on the Eastern European country’s vital fertilizer exports

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's main challenger has led a large protest in Budapest over alleged child abuse in state-run juvenile institutions

Nobel prize winner Ales Bialiatski and opposition figure Maria Kalesnikava among those freed after US talks with Alexander Lukashenko

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has visited Iraq to mark the end of the political mission established in 2003 in the wake of the U.S.-led invasion and occupation as well as the fall of Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship

Teenager who first scrawled messages on pavement in protest at rightwing government did not expect so many others to follow suit