📡 Broadcasting a new signal
On the eve of #WorldPressFreedomDay, R.E.M. is proud to announce Radio Free Europe 2025—a five-track benefit EP saluting 75 years of @rferlpress ’s fearless journalism.
The digital & vinyl set features:
🎛 Jacknife Lee’s brand-new 2025 remix
🔊 Mitch Easter’s unearthed 1981 “Radio Free Dub”
📀 Plus the rare Hib-Tone single mixes of “Radio Free Europe,” “Sitting Still,” and “Wh. Tornado”
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Play it loud. Keep the signal free.
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"They just wiped out people." Mourners paid tribute to Ukrainians killed on May 14 when a Russian air attack caused an apartment building to collapse in Kyiv.
#russianstrikeukraine #kyivattack #ukrainenews #ukrainewar #ukrainewarnews #RussiaUkraineWar #UkraineRussiaWar
Eyewitness video captured a Ukrainian drone hitting an apartment building in the Russian city of Ryazan, killing at least four people, according to local officials. The drone attack targeted a major oil refinery in the city southeast of Moscow, the latest in wave of Ukrainian strikes on Russia's energy infrastructure.
#ukrainewar #ukrainerussiawar #russiaukrainewar #ukrainewarnews #ukrainestrikerussia #ukraineattackrussia
A major military museum in the western German city of Koblenz is denying entry to nationals from 26 countries, causing tense scenes with some visitors who arrive with children.
"I never thought you could be denied entry to a museum based on your nationality,” one Ukrainian woman complained.
✍ @amos.chapple
#germany #militarymuseum #entryban #ukraine #russia
'Just six months ago, millions of Iranian women operated thriving businesses online,' said one analyst. Now, they're struggling to pay the rent.
By @radiofarda
Some Iranians in exile who are advocating a return of the monarchy in Tehran have been displaying symbols associated with the notorious secret police, SAVAK, used by the former shah to repress political opponents before the Islamic Revolution in 1979.
That imagery has sparked outrage among fellow exiles and is complicating the position of Reza Pahlavi, the son of the shah, who hopes to return to power if the current theocratic rule in Iran should crumble.
By @radiofarda
Russia launched 56 missiles and 675 drones at Ukraine overnight Ukraine’s Air Force said on May 14.
Officials reported several people killed and dozens injured after one of the strikes caused an apartment building to collapse.
#russiaukrainewar #ukrainewar #ukraine #kyiv
Power has become increasingly decentralized in Iran following the killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the selection of his son as the new supreme leader.
So, who holds power in the Islamic republic now?
#iran #khamenei #islamicrepublic #iranwar
How The War In Iran Is Shaping The Trump-Xi Summit
The war and its global ripple effects are a through line influencing many of the issues that the two leaders will discuss in Beijing, from rare earth minerals to Taiwan.
Iran is proposing to turn the Strait of Hormuz into a digital chokepoint threatening to charge, regulate, or potentially sabotage the undersea cables that carry a significant share of global internet traffic.
#iranwar #underseacables #fiberoptic #straitofhormuz #iran
Former Italian ambassador to Uzbekistan Piergabriele Papadia de Bottini di Sant'Agnese was arrested in Rome on May 7 over an alleged illegal Schengen visa scheme.
#uzbekistan #italy #italianambassador #visa #russia
