Fans from Kosovo and abroad are attending a four-day music festival in Pristina founded in 2018 by pop singer Dua Lipa and her father. The festival now attracts tens of thousands of international visitors. Twenty-five years after the war in Kosovo, the festival's founders hope the event is helping to change the country's image and promote it as a cultural destination.
Three Bulgarian citizens have been detained on suspicion of vandalizing the Holocaust Memorial in Paris in May, the State Agency for National Security (DANS) said on July 26.
A noted member of the banned Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT) Muhammadali Faizmuhammad died in a prison infirmary at the age of 65, his relatives told RFE/RL on July 26.
Polish lawmakers voted on July 26 in favor of a bill making it easier for security services to use weapons against migrants on the Belarus border, legislation that has public support but that critics say infringes human rights.
Russia's central bank on July 26 raised its key interest rate by 200 basis points to 18 percent from 16 percent, promising further tightening due to the ongoing inflation, which it estimated for 2024 by up to 7 percent, while previous estimate was 4 percent.
Finland suspects a Russian vessel violated the country's territorial waters on July 26, the Finnish Defense Ministry said in a statement.
Uzbekistan's Central Election Commission (MSK) announced on July 26 that parliamentary and local elections will be held in the Central Asian nation on October 27.
A German citizen sentenced to death last month in Minsk has been shown in a video on Belarus television asking for mercy in a statement that appears to have been made under duress.
Anti-Afghan sentiment in Iran has been on the rise in recent years, especially after a mass influx of refugees and migrants following the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan in 2021.
Russia's Justice Ministry on July 25 labeled 55 organizations registered abroad as extremist because of their association the banned Anti-Russia Separatist Movement, a grouping that is non-existent.
