At NATO summit, warm welcome for most leaders, but not Pakistan's

At NATO summit, warm welcome for most leaders, but not Pakistan's

President Obama won't meet with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari. U.S. officials are furious over Pakistan's refusal to reopen supply routes to Afghanistan.

Italy bomb blast kills girl outside school

The attack at the entrance of a high school in Brindisi injures at least four others. Police suspect organized-crime involvement.

Greek cash withdrawals raise fear of run on banks

Greek cash withdrawals raise fear of run on banks

ATHENS — Eva, a well-groomed pensioner, grasps her creamy white purse, glancing impatiently at her gold Cartier watch as she waits for...

 G-8 leaders endorse policy of economic growth

G-8 leaders endorse policy of economic growth

CAMP DAVID, Md. — In a significant political victory for President Obama, the leaders of Germany and other European nations endorsed a...

Native American skulls repatriated to California from England

Nobody thought much about the locked metal cabinet in the medical school at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. It was...

Europe's debt crisis joins governments and banks at the hip

Europe's debt crisis joins governments and banks at the hip

LONDON — The alarm over potential bank runs in Greece and Spain this week has highlighted an often-overlooked fact: Europe's debt...

NATO and G-8 summits allow Obama to showcase foreign policy

NATO and G-8 summits allow Obama to showcase foreign policy

WASHINGTON — Whatever else they achieve, back-to-back summits of world leaders this weekend hosted by President Obama will showcase...

Panetta to confront Pakistan at NATO summit on transport costs

Panetta to confront Pakistan at NATO summit on transport costs

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta heads to this weekend's NATO summit prepared to confront Pakistan over what he...

 For Afghanistan's Karzai, funding tops NATO summit agenda

For Afghanistan's Karzai, funding tops NATO summit agenda

KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan President Hamid Karzai, perhaps best known in the West for periodic well-aimed jabs at his NATO allies, is...

Obama expected to push for growth at G-8 summit

Obama expected to push for growth at G-8 summit

WASHINGTON — For months, President Obama has been urging his European allies to balance their zeal for spending cuts with policies...

Greece bank stability at risk as fear of economic disaster grows

Greece bank stability at risk as fear of economic disaster grows

ATHENS — Fear for the health ofGreece's banks increased Wednesday after a rush of withdrawals as the country braces for fresh...

Ahead of NATO's Chicago summit, members eye the Afghan exits

Ahead of NATO's Chicago summit, members eye the Afghan exits

WASHINGTON — Just days before a NATO summit that leaders had hoped would present a carefully scripted display of unity on Afghanistan,...

 Ratko Mladic shows contempt at start of Bosnia war crimes trial

Ratko Mladic shows contempt at start of Bosnia war crimes trial

LONDON — Bosnian Serb Gen. Ratko Mladic confronted the accusations against him at the opening of his war crimes trial in The Hague...

Russian police clash with protesters at two Moscow sites

Russian police clash with protesters at two Moscow sites

MOSCOW — Russian riot police cleared a Moscow park early Wednesday of a weeklong encampment considered a local version of the Occupy...

France's Francois Hollande, Germany's Merkel hold cordial meeting

France's Francois Hollande, Germany's Merkel hold cordial meeting

PARIS — France's new president, Francois Hollande, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have opposing ideas of how to solve Europe's...

Murdoch exec Rebekah Brooks and husband charged in hacking case

Murdoch exec Rebekah Brooks and husband charged in hacking case

LONDON — She once had the ear of media mogul Rupert Murdoch and Prime Minister David Cameron. Through newspapers such as the Times...

Greece political crisis becoming a war of wills

Greece political crisis becoming a war of wills

ATHENS — As Greece lurches along without a government, its deepening political crisis is fast turning into a war of wills in which...

German state election deals blow to Angela Merkel's party

German state election deals blow to Angela Merkel's party

DUESSELDORF, Germany — Voters in Germany's most populous state dealt a decisive blow to Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian...

Portugal's sick economy triggers health crisis

Portugal's sick economy triggers health crisis

LISBON — For Francisco Reposo, the 30% pay cut he was forced to take this year amid government austerity measures is the least of...

 Greek talks on forming a government fail; new election likely

Greek talks on forming a government fail; new election likely

ATHENS — Greeks braced for another trip to the ballot box next month after weeklong crisis talks aimed at forming a coalition...

In Greece, coalition government proves elusive amid impasse

In Greece, coalition government proves elusive amid impasse

ATHENS — As it teeters on the brink of political chaos, Greece passed another day without a government after highly splintered...

French, German rifts show already

French, German rifts show already

PARIS — Exuberant supporters were still out celebrating Francois Hollande's election as president of France when the first fissures...

France's Francois Hollande changes the mix in Europe

France's Francois Hollande changes the mix in Europe

PARIS — With Francois Hollande's election as France's first Socialist president in 17 years, Europe now must deal with a major...

Greek elections shake up Parliament

Greek elections shake up Parliament

ATHENS — Greek conservatives won at the polls Sunday in national elections but fell far short of enough seats to take power,...

Next up to take on Europe's debt crisis: Democracy

Next up to take on Europe's debt crisis: Democracy

LONDON — For more than two years now, they have all imposed their will on Europe's raging debt crisis: German leaders. Panicked...

London's colorful Mayor Boris Johnson wins second term

London's colorful Mayor Boris Johnson wins second term

LONDON — It's another gold medal for BoJo.

Russia says preemptive strike on NATO missile system is possible

Russia says preemptive strike on NATO missile system is possible

MOSCOW — Russia may consider a preemptive strike on a missile defense system in Europe if the U.S.-led NATO project continues as...

France's president, challenger wage combative TV debate

PARIS — It was billed as a political duel to the death.

Report questions Rupert Murdoch's fitness to lead News Corp.

LONDON — Over 60 years, Rupert Murdoch built a media empire using his properties and their profits not just to break down the doors to...

Italy's Mario Monti speaks softly and carries a big question mark

ROME — Quiet and bookish, a little colorless, Mario Monti doesn't seem the kind of man to inspire religious epiphanies. But his...

Europe takes hard look at nations that allowed U.S. interrogations

Mistakes were made, but on balance waterboarding of terrorism suspects made the world safer.

French village embraces an extremist

BRACHAY, France — The drive to this picturesque village nearly 200 miles southeast of Paris winds through forests and farmland where...

Greece, amid debt crisis, is limping toward London Olympics

ATHENS, Greece — Ancient Greeks invented the Olympics and the nation's athletes have remained loyal participants throughout the years,...

Rupert Murdoch sorry about phone hacking but is also defiant

LONDON — By turns contrite and defiant, media magnate Rupert Murdoch on Thursday apologized for the phone-hacking scandal that has...

Conviction of Liberia's Charles Taylor seen as double-edged

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — The litany of abuses was chilling: mass murder, rape, sexual slavery. Forcing children to fight. Chopping...

Ancient DNA sheds light on spread of European farming

Analyzing DNA from four ancient skeletons and comparing it with thousands of genetic samples from living humans, a group of Scandinavian...

Rupert Murdoch tells British court his political clout is overstated

LONDON — He's hobnobbed with every British prime minister of the last 30 years but says he wields no undue political influence. His...

Rights groups see politics behind rise in Muslim hate crimes

The Oslo courtroom where confessed mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik is on trial offers a look at a tragic outcome of anti-Islamic...

Murdoch son tells of contacts with British officials on BSkyB bid

LONDON — Rupert Murdoch's media empire enjoyed possibly inappropriate contacts with senior British politicians, including the...

Putin to resign as chairman of United Russia party

MOSCOW — President-elect Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that he would resign as chairman of the United Russia party after his...

Italy in unfamiliar role in seizure of 'Christ Carrying the Cross'

The Italian government has been persistent, tenacious and very effective in forcing repatriation of its looted antiquities. Seizing the...

Russian's purchase of U.S.-backed battery firm sparks anxiety

CHICAGO — Batteries made in America for America and backed by America. That's how politicians hailed Ener1.

Russians show support for Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill

MOSCOW — Tens of thousands of people came to the square in front of a Moscow cathedral Sunday in a show of support for the Russian...

French Socialist Hollande will face Sarkozy in runoff

PARIS — Socialist Party candidate Francois Hollande and French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Sunday advanced to a presidential runoff...

French presidential candidate Francois Hollande bets on boring

PARIS — Under the big top of Paris' Cirque d'Hiver, where in winter trapeze artists perform "death-defying" feats, big cats terrify...

Russian Orthodox Church is in spiritual crisis, critics say

KARABANOVO, Russia — His unruly mane of white hair giving him the look of Moses, Father Georgy Edelstein struggled over the grayish...

Germany's nuclear power phaseout turns off environmentalists

KLEINENSIEL, Germany — When the German government shut down half the country's nuclear reactors after the Fukushima disaster in Japan,...

British teens ran 'stock-picking robot' scam, SEC says

It sounded far-fetched — a "stock-picking robot" that could identify penny stocks poised to double in price.

France President Nicolas Sarkozy struggles to connect with voters

PARIS — Just hours after 40,000 runners gathered at Place de la Concorde, the historic gateway to the French capital, for the start of...

Vatican scolds Catholic nuns' group for deviating from doctrine

A group that represents the majority of Roman Catholic nuns in the United States has been chastised by the Vatican for deviating from church...

Afghanistan needs firm security funding pledges, U.S. says

BRUSSELS — The United States and its allies are promising to provide more than $4 billion a year for Afghanistan's army and police...

First Solar to cut 2,000 jobs and close factory in Germany

Blaming a "fundamentally changed" solar industry and plunging business in Europe, panel maker First Solar Inc. is cutting 2,000 jobs and...

English gardener puts his touch on Monet's garden

GIVERNY, France — When James Priest is asked to strike a Claude Monet pose and stroll under the famous arched trellises lining the...

English town honors its Titanic hero

GODALMING, England — He had just landed his biggest assignment yet, senior telegraph officer on the world's biggest ship. On the...

In Russia, Stalin enjoying a revival on school notebooks

MOSCOW — Josef Stalin ruled the Soviet Union for three decades, turning it from a backward agrarian country into a nuclear...

U.S. court sentences Russian arms dealer to 25 years in prison

NEW YORK — A federal court judge sentenced convicted Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout to 25 years in prison on Thursday, but in a swipe...

Britain's plan to expand state surveillance causes furor

LONDON — The British government is scrambling to fend off accusations of trying to turn the country into a virtual police state with...

James Murdoch steps down as chairman of British Sky Broadcasting

James Murdoch's resignation as chairman of satellite broadcaster British Sky Broadcasting comes ahead of a government report expected to...

Molson Coors to buy European brewer StarBev for $3.5 billion

Molson Coors Brewing Co. — home of Miller Lite, Blue Moon, Keystone Light and other signature brands — plans to expand into...

Russia mayoral vote results point to challenges for Putin

MOSCOW — In a sign that Russia's ruling party will face greater challenges when Vladimir Putin begins his third term as president,...

Argentina, Britain mark Falklands War's 30th anniversary

BUENOS AIRES — Separated by an ocean and an ongoing dispute, Argentina and Britain commemorated the 30th anniversary Monday of the...

Spaniards who grew up in boom years now set their goals low

MADRID — The son of two teachers, Moises Leon got an education degree in hope of joining the ranks of the comfortable middle class...

Eurozone nations to increase bailout

The 17 nations of the Eurozone agreed Friday to increase their bailout resources in an attempt to keep a lid on the debt crisis that has...

U.S. ambassador to Moscow accuses Russian journalists of hacking

MOSCOW — The only thing missing from the scene was one of those heroic images of Lenin peering from a shop window, or perhaps a...

Turkey asks U.S. museums for return of antiquities

The government of Turkey is asking American museums to return dozens of artifacts that were allegedly looted from the country's...

In Spain, millions join strike to protest labor reforms

MADRID — Millions of Spaniards stayed off the job Thursday to protest new labor laws that allow companies to opt out of collective...

Russia OKs legislation to ease party registration

MOSCOW — Russia's parliament on Wednesday approved legislation intended to simplify the registration of political parties, a move...

To Britain's metal thieves, nothing is sacred

Naomi Wormell is a vicar, not a vigilante. But these days, she finds it hard to choose Christian charity over some swift — and...

Tonino Guerra dies at 92; renowned Italian screenwriter

Tonino Guerra, an internationally renowned Italian screenwriter who collaborated with Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni and other...

Russia youth have known nothing but Putin, and won't vote for him

He was born in 1991, the year the Soviet Union collapsed. He was still a child in grade school when a former KGB agent named Vladimir...

Germany finds itself back in power in Europe

For nearly 70 years, Germany's grand national ambition has basically been not to have one.

Vladimir Putin is spoofed on the Internet

The videos feature some of Russia's most famous actors, writers, directors, musicians and other VIPs, all united by the heartfelt slogan:...

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