Ron Synovitz is a senior correspondent for RFE/RL.
Tajikistan's fortune-tellers are being asked to cross someone else's palm with silver -- the tax collector.
Anticorruption group Transparency International says close relationships between businesses and governments are enabling corruption and undermining economic stability in Europe.
Two days of voting began on May 23 in the first round of Egypt's presidential election -- a ballot that comes 15 months after longtime ruler Hosni Mubarak was ousted by Egypt's Arab Spring uprising. If none of the 12 candidates secures more than 50 percent of the vote, the top two will face off against each other in a June 16-17 runoff.
In the run-up to next week's Eurovision Song Contest, seven hotels in the host city, Baku, have been quizzed by a rights group about claims that hidden cameras have been placed in guest rooms to record people having sex so as to blackmail them.
French voters go to the polls on April 22 for the first round of a presidential election expected to determine the future of a French-German alliance that recently has guided European policy.
An investigation is yet to be completed into the suspected poisoning of 140 schoolgirls and their teachers in Afghanistan. But authorities strongly suspect the incident was the result of a Taliban attack.
Macedonian leaders are trying to curb the threat of renewed ethnic violence in their country amid speculation over recent killings that has fueled tensions.
For the first time in more than 20 years and amid heavy security, Iraq is hosting an Arab League summit this week in Baghdad, where the Syrian crisis is expected to dominate proceedings.
A newly planned social network -- conceived during the early days of last year's Arab Spring uprisings -- seeks to link the world's Muslims on a platform where they won't be exposed to pornography, insults to Islam or a political agenda. But some Muslims have their doubts.
The first ex-communist countries to join the European Union are now working to help bring former Soviet republics closer to the EU.
A Baku-born aviation engineer is trying to make a niche for his private company in Germany by producing multirotar miniature drone aircraft that sell for about 5,000 euros each
Following a police raid on a madrasah in Karachi, children as young as 7 have told horrific tales of being shackled together in a dungeon-like basement where they were starved and regularly beaten by teachers.
Calls for a more coordinated system of international financial regulation have been growing as the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York inspire similar demonstrations around the world.
A London-based law firm has published a dossier of evidence online against Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka in a bid to bring private prosecutions against him wherever he travels.
One of the foundations of physics and Einstein's theory of relativity - that nothing can go faster than the speed of light - has been shaken by new findings at one of the world's top scientific laboratories. R
Rock musicians in Kabul are refusing to let a major Taliban attack in the Afghan capital this week stop them from putting on the first rock festival in the Asian country in more than 35 years.
Market volatility seen around the world during the past week -- sparked by the downgrading of the United States' credit rating by Standard & Poor's -- has focused attention on the role of credit-rating agencies in the global financial system.
Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai has welcomed U.S. President Barack Obama's plan to withdraw 33,000 U.S. troops from Afghanistan by next summer -- a withdrawal that equals the number of "surge troops" Obama sent into battle at the end of 2009
Syrian television has reported that more than 120 security troops were killed in battles with "armed gangs" at a town close to the border with Turkey. But some question those claims, saying it could be a government cover-up or justification for another deadly crackdown to crush a popular uprising.
President Hamid Karzai has warned the NATO-led force in Afghanistan that launching attacks on Afghan homes in pursuit of insurgents is "not allowed" and that patience with the tactic has run out after a spate of civilian casualties.
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