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Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi talks to German Chancellor Angela Merkel (R) during an EU Summit in Brussels, Belgium on December 17, 2015.

E.U. extends sanctions against Russia amid growing splits over their future

June 21, 2019 at 6:47 a.m.

The European Union on Monday extended sanctions against Russia for six months, achieving unity among 28 member nations despite rising divisions over how long to press a major trading partner...

Greece approves contentious austerity measures, smoothing way for bailout

June 24, 2019 at 2:33 p.m.

Hours after police and demonstrators clashed in central Athens, Greek lawmakers on Thursday approved austerity measures that were overwhelmingly rejected by their citizens just days ago. The vote represented a...

Soldiers from NATO countries attend an opening ceremony of military exercise 'Saber Strike 2015', at the Gaiziunu Training Range in Pabrade some 38 miles north of the capital Vilnius, Lithuania, Monday, June 8, 2015.

Survey: Western Europe wary of supporting Russia’s NATO neighbors

June 22, 2019 at 3:55 a.m.

After more than a year of war in Ukraine, Western European citizens are extremely wary of using military force to defend NATO allies from Russia, according to a wide-ranging opinion...

A policeman walks from a house on March 26, 2015, in Montabaur, Germany, where the co-pilot of the crashed Germanwings plane reportedly lived.

Among clues about Germanwings co-pilot, reports of ‘pressure’ and vision problems

June 20, 2019 at 10:09 p.m.

One year before he made the cut for Lufthansa's elite flying school, Andreas Lubitz worked at a Burger King behind a car wash, flipping Whoppers and frying fries and talking...

Russia’s anti-U.S. sentiment now is even worse than it was in Soviet Union

August 18, 2019 at 6:53 p.m.

Thought the Soviet Union was anti-American? Try today's Russia. After a year in which furious rhetoric has been pumped across Russian airwaves, anger toward the United States is at its...

Dorina, 3, stands while an elderly woman picks tree branches for fire, in Debaltseve, Ukraine, Feb. 20, 2015. The embattled Ukrainian rail hub of Debaltseve fell Wednesday to Russia-backed separatists, who hoisted a flag in triumph over the town.

U.S. weighs more sanctions against Russia over violations in Ukraine

June 24, 2019 at 12:08 a.m.

The Obama administration is weighing a new round of sanctions against Russia in response to its continued "land-grabbing" in eastern Ukraine despite a cease-fire agreement, Secretary of State John Kerry...

This screengrab taken on January 11, 2015 from a video released on Islamist social networks shows a man allegedly claiming to be Amedy Coulibaly, who is suspected of killing a policewoman in Montrouge on January 8 and four hostages after seizing a Kosher supermarket in Paris on January 9, 2015.

French prisons, long hotbeds of radical Islam, get new scrutiny after Paris attacks

June 19, 2019 at 6:34 p.m.

The man was sent to France's largest prison for armed robbery. He emerged a toughened radical who would go on to take part in the bloodiest terrorist attacks on French...

Why is tiny Belgium Europe’s jihad-recruiting hub?

June 23, 2019 at 9:41 p.m.

The Belgian teenager was determined to join the jihadist fight in Syria — so much so that, after his nation's authorities rolled up an alleged militant cell Friday, he was...

Swiss pressured to surrender keys to secret bank accounts

August 23, 2021 at 5:02 p.m.

— For decades, Switzerland was the place where money went to hide. Cash sent to its mountain aeries was protected by some of the strictest secrecy laws in the world....

Swiss pressured to surrender keys to secret bank accounts

December 25, 2018 at 1:17 a.m.

— For decades, Switzerland was the place where money went to hide. Cash sent to its mountain aeries was protected by some of the strictest secrecy laws in the world....

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