WASHINGTON, May 26 -- The House Foreign Affairs Committee released the following testimony by Damon Wilson, president and CEO of the National Endowment for Democracy, from a May 20, 2026, hearing entitled "FY2027 Budget Request: State Department Adjacent Entities": * * * Chairman Mast, Ranking Member Meeks, and Members of the Committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify before this Committee. On behalf of NED's Board of Directors, staff, and thousands of democratic partners around the w  more

LVIV, Ukraine, May 22 -- The Ukrainian Catholic University issued the following news: * * * Researchers from the Ukrainian Catholic University and Vytautas Magnus University have reviewed the results of their collaboration From May 9 to May 17, a team of anthropologists from Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas paid a working visit to Lviv. Together with researchers from the Ukrainian Catholic University, they are implementing a scientific project within the framework of the state Lithuanian-  more

HELSINGBOR, Sweden, May 22 -- The U.S. State Department issued the following remarks by Secretary Marco Rubio and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte after their meeting: * * * SECRETARY GENERAL RUTTE: So good morning again, and good morning again, Marco, Marco Rubio. Really appreciate you being here today. We had a first discussion. We will now continue with, of course, the NATO foreign ministers, and the meeting will very much concentrate on a couple of issues also on your mind and the Preside  more

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, May 25 -- The European Union's European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control issued the following news: * * * Strengthening disease outbreak preparedness through partnership on joint scenario training * As rising global interconnection increases public health risks worldwide, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), building on the success of its previous programme through European Health Task Force (EUHTF), will once again host the Global Outbre  more

GENEVA, Switzerland, May 26 -- The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe issued the following news release: * * * UNECE advocates for housing affordability and resilience at World Urban Forum: 6 key takeaways With cities on the front line of crises and as key actors for resilience, at the World Urban Forum (WUF13) in Baku, Azerbaijan, UNECE highlighted the urgent need to accelerate action on affordable and sustainable housing, resilient urban development, land governance, and urban r  more

BRUSSELS, Belgium, May 25 -- The European Federation of Journalists posted the following news: * * * Ukraine: Russian missile-and-drone attack damaged six media offices in Kyiv * The International and European Federations of Journalists (IFJ-EFJ) join their affiliate, the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine (NUJU), in condemning one of the largest Russian missile-and-drone attacks on Kyiv on the night of 23-24 May, which damaged media infrastructure and affected journalists and their fa  more