Afghanistan has climbed 22 places in this year's Press Freedom Index published by Reporters Without Borders "thanks to the fact that no journalists are in prison" there.
RFE/RL's Brussels correspondent, Rikard Jozwiak, looks at how a possible "Brexit" -- or even a looser relationship between Britain and the EU -- might affect the bloc's enlargement and foreign policy.
Politicians in Serbia have boldly predicted in recent days that accused drug lord Darko Saric, who has been wanted since 2010, may soon be arrested. Saric once controlled a drug-smuggling ring that reportedly earned more than $1 billion a year. Rumors of his imminent arrest have sparked speculation about whether any high-ranking Serbian politicians have been protecting him.
Montenegro's parliament has voted to give Milo Djukanovic a seventh term as prime minister of the former Yugoslav republic.
According to the anticorruption group Transparency International (TI), high levels of bribery, abuse of power, and secret dealings continue to “ravage” societies around the world, despite a growing public outcry over corrupt governments.
President Filip Vujanovic told reporters in Podgorica that he has asked Milo Djukanovic, the president of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS), to form a new government.
The ruling coalition's victory was smaller than in the 2009 elections, when it won enough votes to secure an outright parliament majority.
Montenegrins are voting in parliamentary elections expected to extend the 23-year hold on power of the ruling Coalition for a European Montenegro. A win for the coalition could lead to the return to the prime minister's office of Milo Djukanovic, head of the Democratic Party of Socialists, who has led Montenegro as president or prime minister for most of the past two decades. (Reuters)
Opinion polls have suggested that the ruling Coalition for a European Montenegro is favored to sweep to victory, potentially taking almost half of the vote.
The Nobel Committee in Oslo must be inhaling a hallucinogenic drug this morning by awarding the Peace Prize to the EU.
Draza Mihailovic, the World War II-era commander of the Chetnik movement, remains one of the most divisive figures in Serbia to this day. Now, a Belgrade court ruling has paved the way for his potential rehabilitation, despite a warning cry from scholars and activists, who say the move would entail a flawed revision of history.
From Iran's glorious past as the ancient world's first superpower to Russia’s present and continuing obsession with protecting its territory, acclaimed American journalist and author Robert Kaplan’s latest book, "The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us about Coming Conflicts and the Battle against Fate" traces the history of the world's hot spots through their geographic advantages and disadvantages.
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