Are Ukraine and the U.S. allies or not?
At this critical moment for the future of Ukrainian, European and U.S. interests in the region, the U.S.-Ukraine strategic partnership lacks both strategy and partnership. This much is clear after...
View ArticleSix Ukrainian servicemen killed, 14 wounded in past 24 hours
Six Ukrainian servicemen have been killed and 14 wounded in separatist eastern territory in the past 24 hours, despite a four-month-old ceasefire deal, the Ukrainian military said on Saturday. The...
View ArticleEU nations strongly divided over plan to take in migrants
LUXEMBOURG (AP) — European Union nations failed to bridge differences Tuesday over an emergency plan to share the burden of the thousands of refugees crossing the Mediterranean, while on the...
View ArticleAs Vladimir Putin Talks More Missiles and Might, Cost Tells Another Story
KUBINKA, Russia — They call it Russia’s military Disneyland, and the underlying idea that Russia will soon field a high-tech, modernized army was indeed part fantasy. But the bristling array of...
View ArticleFrench police clash with migrants as ferry strike causes chaos in Calais
People face off with drivers and gendarmes in attempts to board lorries en route to UK as industrial action creates huge lines of trucks entering port. Migrants and police were engaged in an uneasy...
View ArticleFrance rejects asylum request by Wikileaks founder Assange
France swiftly rejected on Friday a request for asylum by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The founder of the transparency website had appealed directly to President Francois Hollande, days after...
View ArticleConfusion reigns in Greece on last day of campaigning before referendum
ATHENS — Confusion reigned across Greece on Friday as a court weighed whether to allow a referendum planned for Sunday that could shape the country’s direction for decades, but has also sown bitter...
View ArticleTsipras pleads for fair deal for Greece in EU parliament
By Barbara Lewis STRASBOURG (Reuters) – Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras pleaded in the European Parliament on Wednesday for a fair deal to keep his country in the euro zone, acknowledging Greece’s...
View ArticleGreece debt crisis: Eurozone deal laws backed by MPs
Greek MPs have approved tough economic measures required to enable an €86bn eurozone bailout deal to go ahead. The legislation includes tax rises and an increase in the retirement age. Two hundred and...
View ArticleHungary blasts EU on migration; chaos at Budapest station
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s leader railed Thursday at Germany and EU leaders for a lacking urgency in dealing with Europe’s migrant crisis as chaos reigned back home, where migrants by the...
View ArticlePope revolutionizes Catholic marriage annulment procedures
Pope Francis on Tuesday revolutionized the procedure for Roman Catholics to get marriage annulments, making them faster and simpler and calling on bishops to provide greater help to divorced couples....
View ArticleThe Latest: Hungary declares emergency in 2 border counties
BUDAPEST, Hungary — The latest developments as European governments rush to cope with the huge number of people moving across Europe. All times local (CET): ___ 11:35 a.m. Hungary has declared a state...
View ArticleThe Latest: David Cameron says UK casualties expected
PARIS (AP) — The latest on shootings and explosions in Paris. (All times local): 1:25 p.m. Prime Minister David Cameron is warning his nation to brace for casualties from the attacks in Paris, but he...
View ArticleFrance IDs top Paris attacks figure, seeks unity to bomb IS
PARIS (AP) — France identified a 27-year-old Belgian who once boasted about killing infidels and fought for the Islamic State group in Syria as the mastermind of the Paris attacks, and President...
View ArticleOther Europeans unhappy with EU could seek to follow UK out
Disenchantment with the European Union is not limited to British voters who opted to leave the bloc. Across the continent,
View ArticleAt least 120 dead as quake rocks central Italy
A powerful earthquake that toppled homes, churches and shops in numerous medieval towns in central Italy Wednesday killed at least
View ArticleSuicide truck bomb blamed on PKK kills 11 police in Turkey
A suicide truck bombing at a police headquarters in Turkey’s largely Kurdish southeast killed at least 11 and wounded dozens
View ArticleProsecutors: Brussels attack was probably arson, not a bomb
Reports of a bomb outside Belgium’s criminal institute early Monday are probably false, the Brussels prosecutor’s office said, describing the
View ArticleItalian Coast Guard Saves 3,000 Migrants From Mediterranean Sea In 30...
The migrants were packed on board dozens of boats, many of them rubber dinghies that become dangerously unstable in high
View ArticleThe Real Stakes in the Burkini Mess
This burkini business is deplorable. Deplorable — and grotesque — is the image of a France where the vice squad
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