The ongoing Russia-Ukraine war has upended the global economic balance, affecting sectors ranging from agriculture to tourism, energy, transportation, and logistics. Now in its fourth year ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday that his country's special military operation in Ukraine is aimed at ...

RFE/RL's Live Briefing gives you all of the latest developments on Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Western military aid to Kyiv, worldwide reaction, and the plight of civilians and refugees.

Americans are cheering for the new leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV, whose name is Robert Francis Prevost.

Tens of thousands of well-wishers gathered for Leo XIV's inaugural mass at the Vatican, which sees him formally take up his ...

C hurch bells tolled across Rome, and tributes have been pouring in from around the world after the Vatican on Monday ...