Новости за 18.05.2024

Poland will invest 10 billion zlotys ($2.55 billion) in a program to secure its eastern border, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on May 18.

A U.S. C-17 military aircraft landed on May 18 in Chisinau to support an exercise called Shield of Peace, the U.S. Embassy in Moldova said in a statement.

Bosnia-Herzegovina’s ambassador to the United Nations has announced that the final text of a resolution on the Srebrenica genocide has been agreed.

An Afghan refugee in Bishkek says he fears for his safety after violent mobs attacked foreigners in the Kyrgyz capital. The assault was allegedly directed at international students and migrants. Victims have said Pakistani and Indian students were targeted.

Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili has vetoed the so-called foreign agent law targeting the media that has sparked weeks of mass protests.

Groups of assailants have broken into foreign students' housing in the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek. Amateur footage filmed on the night of May 17-18 and verified by RFE/RL shows crowds outside hostels accommodating foreigners, assailants breaking into rooms and beating people, and the damaged interior of Pakistani students' rooms. The mob was incited by a video purportedly showing a fight between Kyrgyz and Egyptian students.

Georgian Dream politicians often blame the country's ills on a mysterious "global war party." It has been invoked again amid the turmoil over the "foreign agent" law, seemingly to shore up support with the promotion of populist rhetoric.

After mob violence targeting foreign students engulfed Kyrgyzstan’s capital, Pakistani students told RFE/RL how the angry crowds broke into dormitories to attack them.

The Kyrgyz government said 28 people were injured, including three foreigners, in mob violence in Bishkek on the night of May 17-18 that appeared to be directed against foreign students and migrants. The violence prompted diplomatic reactions from Pakistan and India, who warned their students in Bishkek to remain indoors.

The man accused of attempting to assassinate Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was ordered to remain behind bars on May 18, while Fico remains in serious but stable condition, officials said.

At least 50 people are dead following a fresh bout of heavy rain and flooding in central Afghanistan.

The Kyrgyz government said 28 people were injured, including three foreigners, in an incident that took place in Bishkek on the night of May 17-18. The violence was apparently triggered by a video of a fight in the courtyard of a Bishkek hostel involving "foreigners" that had circulated on social media.

The Kyrgyz government said 28 people were injured, including three foreigners, in an overnight incident that took place in Bishkek.

France has again accused Azerbaijan of interfering in the internal politics of New Caledonia by backing a disinformation campaign that Paris says is encouraging deadly riots in the French territory located between Australia and Fiji.