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DARMSTADT, Germany — From the outside, there is nothing unusual about the stylish new gray and orange row houses in the Kranichstein District, with wreaths on the doors and Christmas lights twinkling through a freezing drizzle. But these...
PARIS — The secretary general of NATO had lunch on Friday with the Russian ambassador to the organization, beginning the “conditional and graduated re-engagement” with Moscow that NATO foreign ministers approved earlier this month.
The...
BERLIN — Christian Klar, one of the last members of the terrorist Red Army Faction to remain in prison, was released Friday after serving 26 years of a life sentence, according to the Justice Ministry in the German state of Baden-Württemberg.
The...
High school students protest in front of their school in the western Athens suburb of Peristeri.
ATHENS, Greece — Thousands of youths demonstrated in central Athens Friday as anger flared in the Greek capital following the shooting of...
Critics fear the climate deal may have been undermined by compromises
European Union leaders have reached a deal on a package of measures to fight global warming.
The plan, agreed at a Brussels summit, sets out how 27 member-countries will...
French President Nicolas Sarkozy is meeting Gordon Brown at Downing Street for talks on what more can be to stimulate the global economy.
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso is joining them, ahead of an EU summit in Brussels this...
Both Tbilisi and Kiev had pressed hard for MAPs
Nato has reaffirmed that Ukraine and Georgia will eventually join the alliance, without offering them formal roadmaps towards membership.
Instead, Nato foreign ministers meeting in Brussels said...
Bruce and Joy Hardy of Ruislip, England, are awaiting a British agency’s reconsideration of its rejection of a medicine sought by Mr. Hardy, a kidney cancer patient.
RUISLIP, England — When Bruce Hardy’s kidney cancer spread to his lung,...
Georgian troops were ousted from South Ossetia in August
Foreign ministers from Nato countries are meeting in Brussels to discuss resuming co-operation with Russia.
Relations between the alliance and Moscow were frozen after Russia’s...
Pirates are holding the MV Faina off the town of Harardhere
Somali pirates holding a ship full of military hardware have reached a deal with its Ukrainian owners to let it go, reports say.
Gunmen seized the Kenya-bound MV Faina, carrying 33...