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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan faces his biggest electoral challenge Sunday with a country recovering from deadly earthquakes, an economic crisis and a united opposition under the leadership of Kemal Kilicdaroglu vowing democratic reform. Dorian Jones reports for VOA from Istanbul. …

Britain is reportedly preparing to designate the Wagner group – a Russian private army that is deeply involved in the invasion of Ukraine – as a terrorist organization. The European Union and the United States are debating similar moves. That would put the group in the same bracket as Islamic State and al-Qaida. Henry Ridgwell …

New developments: Support for Ukraine on agenda as G-7 finance ministers meet in Japan. British Defense Ministry says Russia likely added up to 10,000 prisoners to those recruited to fight in Ukraine.    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said it is not yet time for his forces to launch a long-anticipated counteroffensive to recapture territory held by …

In April 2022, a Russian rocket hit a train station in the Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, killing dozens and wounding more than 100. What became clear at the time was that local hospitals were not set up to handle a massive influx of wartime casualties. That’s changing, thanks to a unique medical project. Anna Kosstutschenko has …

The number of people internally displaced globally hit a record 71.1 million at the end of last year, according to a report released Thursday by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre. The figure represents a 20% increase from 2021. Among the drivers of new displacements last year were the war in Ukraine, which the report said …

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has turned to Huda Par, a radical Islamist party, to consolidate his Kurdish base. But the move is controversial, with the Huda Par accused of past links to political violence. Dorian Jones reports from Diyarbakir. …

As Turkey heads to the polls for its momentous elections Sunday, former U.S. ambassadors to Ankara will be monitoring from afar. While the perspectives shaped by their respective tenures in Turkey may vary, three former mission chiefs speaking to VOA share at least one view: The elections in which President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will face …

The Kremlin said on Wednesday that Poland’s decision to rename the Russian city of Kaliningrad in its official documents was a “hostile act,” as ties continue to fray over the war in Ukraine.  Kaliningrad, which sits in an exclave that is sandwiched between Lithuania and Poland on the Baltic coast, was known by the German …

Much of western Europe is dealing with dwindling populations, and the problem is especially severe in Spain, where the government says more than half of the country’s municipalities are in danger of total depopulation as many young people move to cities or choose not to have children. Jonathan Spier narrates this report from Alfonso Beato …

Ahead of what may be the most important elections in recent Turkish history, activists say the country’s refugee population is growing increasingly afraid of threats of mass deportations. VOA’s Heather Murdock reports from Istanbul and Sakarya province in Turkey with videographer Yan Boechat. …

Repeated attempts by hackers, including some linked to Russia, to damage or take down critical infrastructure in Latvia have been answered, thanks in part to help from U.S. and Canadian cyber personnel. The three countries Wednesday announced the completion of a three-month-long operation focused on hunting down threats to Latvia’s infrastructure that also involved a …

United States to provide $1.2 billion in new military aid to Ukraine, including air defenses and ammunition. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says “only a matter of time before we can restore a sustainable and just peace for our part of Europe, for Ukraine.” Agence France-Presse journalist Arman Soldin was killed by rocket fire in eastern …