Russia has kept up the flow of men to fight in Ukraine by paying extraordinarily high wages and bonuses. Now some regions are dropping their payments. Experts aren’t sure exactly why, but worsening economic conditions.
This edition of the Farda Briefing looks at how Iran is pushing to maintain its uranium enrichment capabilities and what analysts say this means for nuclear talks moving forward.
Women in Pakistan are protesting the killing of a 17-year-old social media influencer. On June 3, police in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, said they arrested a 22-year-old man for killing Sana Yousaf a day earlier.
Russia is preparing to launch a sweeping new system to monitor migrant workers, combining biometric registration, location tracking, and intensified police oversight.
After a second round of direct peace talks in Istanbul on June 2, it seemed like Russia and Ukraine were even further from an agreement to end Russia’s war on Ukraine than they had been when they sat down for the talks. Days later, the hurdles to peace may be even higher.
Afghanistan's hard-line Taliban rulers have detained several Islamic clerics. Most of those incarcerated have publicly criticized the Taliban government or offered advice on how to change or improve vital policies.
British police have implicated four men, including two Ukrainian nationals, in a plot to set fire to properties linked to the British prime minister. It’s a head-scratching case that has raised fears of a secret recruiting campaign backed by Russian intelligence.
NATO defense ministers meet on June 5 in a last ministerial meeting before the big annual NATO summit on June 24-25, when the military alliance's 32 heads of state and government, including US President Donald Trump, gather at The Hague.
The second round of negotiations to resolve Europe’s largest land war since World War II ended with even less of an outcome than the first round.
When the European Commission started briefing EU states last month on the next sanctions package expected to be imposed on Russia, the 27 member nations expected concrete written proposals to follow. They're still waiting.
The largest prisoner exchange between Russia and Ukraine returned thousands -- but none were fighters from the Azov Brigade, one of Ukraine’s most symbolic military units, known for defending Mariupol’s last stronghold, the Azovstal steel plant.
Bulgarian authorities expect to get the green light this week from the European Commission and the European Central Bank to introduce the euro from January 1, 2026.
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