Premier League referee Michael Oliver is at this summer’s World Cup (Getty)
World Cup referees could earn up to $100,000 (£75,000) this summer and will receive bonuses if they are kept on for the latter stages of the tournament.
Premier League duo Michael Oliver and Anthony Taylor have been selected by FIFA and could referee the final if England are not involved.
Oliver and Taylor have already…
The buildup of troops and the new base pose a potential security issue for Finland, which shares an 830-mile border with Russia.
Despite warnings from the EU, Serbia’s government has granted citizenship to four times as many Russian nationals as to all other foreign citizens combined this year -- including individuals under international sanctions, an RFE/RL investigation has found.
A massive panorama depicting a battle in the 1853-1856 Crimean War has been heavily damaged by what Russian-occupation authorities in Sevastopol say was a Ukrainian drone attack.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov urged journalists not to fuel speculation over the recent absence of Central Bank Governor Elvira Nabiullina from public view.
According to Interfax, Peskov declined to discuss Nabiullina's health in detail and instead wished her a speedy recovery.
"People sometimes get sick. There is nothing unusual about that,” the Kremlin spokesman said, without specifying when…
A Russian woman who pleaded guilty to lying about her contacts with Russia’s main intelligence agency -- and was later accused of sending drunken harassing messages to the FBI -- was set to be sentenced in a Manhattan federal court.
Hungary's energy giant MOL and the Serbian government have reached a major agreement on the future ownership and governance of Serbia’s oil industry giant NIS.
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Parallels between the two wars abound, from the grinding nature of the fighting to the way new technologies reshaped warfare.
Reports indicate that Russia has completed construction of the giant SKIF research facility, the Siberian Circular Photon Source, one of the country's largest scientific projects in recent years, with the first experiments expected to begin as early as September or October this year. The matter came up in a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin […]
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A tech boss claims fully autonomous 'Terminator' AI drones have hunted and killed enemy troops for the first time in Ukraine, sparking major ethical fears
A tech boss has revealed that fully autonomous AI 'Terminator' drones with no human control have killed frontline soldiers for the first time in Ukraine
Russia's foreign ministry spokesperson vowed to publish the addresses of all Canadian production facilities participating in the drone deal.
Russian drone attacks are a daily reality in Kherson, a frontline city in southern Ukraine. Residents say the threat is growing, with drones increasingly targeting residential neighborhoods and forcing people to seek cover. Yet many refuse to leave.
The Roblox ban in Russia sparked an unprecedented wave of complaints from children (Picture: Getty Images)
The Russian government has announced a U-turn on a Roblox ban after complaints from thousands of children.
Children in Russia access the hit game Roblox again after a petition forced officials to lift a six-month ban.
The US game was blocked in December after Russia’s communications…
What’s the latest brick in Russia’s effort to build its Great Internet Firewall? A proposal to create a government-run Virtual Private Network, co-opting a tool that has been widely embraced by Russians trying to avoid government censorship. Industry insiders are reportedly unimpressed.
Ukrainian UAV battalions are taking credit for disrupting Moscow’s use of a captured seaport as a logistics hub.
A Ukrainian wedding photoshoot was dramatically interrupted when a Russian kamikaze drone was blasted out of the sky above the couple, with the bride gasping as burning wreckage rained down.</p>
Russia should move more quickly to remove Visa and Mastercard payment cards from circulation, according to Dmitry Dubynin, head of the National Payment Card System (NSPK), the operator of the Mir payment card network.
Dubynin told Rossiyskaya Gazeta that extending the validity of Visa and Mastercard cards became critically important after the two international payment systems exited the Russian…
The EU has proposed banning 11 crypto platforms to strengthen Russia sanctions, targeting financial networks accused of aiding Moscow’s war.
Plus, why Americans are clamoring for European sunscreen.
Midrange attacks, using upgraded drones that Ukraine produces in huge numbers, are causing fuel shortages and complicating troop rotations.
The warning came as EU’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas met Foreign Affairs Minister Helen McEntee in Dublin
The European Union is calling for financial sanctions on the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Russian head of the world chess federation, a historian who is a close adviser to President Vladimir Putin, and other top officials.
The continued strengthening of the Russian ruble against the U.S. dollar is meaningless, and Russia's persistence in pursuing such a policy has surprised the global business community, Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska wrote on his Telegram channel.
According to Deripaska, neither Japan, South Korea, China, nor any other major export-oriented economy has ever pursued a strategy focused on…
The US House of Representatives has passed legislation requiring the administration to produce a detailed assessment of Russian and Chinese intelligence activities in Georgia
In this week's briefing, RFE/RL Europe Editor Rikard Jozwiak is drilling down on two issues: a damning rule-of-law assessment for Serbia and the latest Franco-German EU enlargement proposal.
Kyiv Residents have mixed reactions over the removal of a statue of writer Mikhail Bulgakov, author of The Master And Margarita. Born in Kyiv, the novelist penned sharp satires of Soviet society. But Ukrainian officials said Bulgakov also symbolized Russian imperial thinking.
In recent years, the government of Mordovia has been paying significant attention to the development of the gaming industry in the region. This was shared by the head of the republic, Artem Zdunov, in a conversation with “Interfax” during the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2026.