Europe

Ammunition fire rages at Russian military base
Exploding shells set off a fire that was triggering explosions Wednesday at a military depot in southern Russia, injuring about 30 people and causing ...
Italy top court faults Amanda Knox acquittal
Italy's high court on Tuesday harshly faulted the appeals court that acquitted American student Amanda Knox of murdering her roommate, saying its ...
Scientists: Timber in Lake Michigan centuries old
A wooden beam embedded at the bottom of northern Lake Michigan appears to have been there for centuries, underwater archaeologists announced Tuesday, ...
Greece's public TV still off despite court ruling
State TV channels in Greece remained off-air Tuesday as the political storm over the future of public broadcaster ERT raged on, despite a court ruling ...
Turkey's defiant PM says police to get more power
Turkey's prime minister on Tuesday brushed aside international criticism over his government's crackdown on widespread demonstrations and vowed to ...
Poland, Germany probe Nazi-led unit commander
Prosecutors in Poland and Germany said Tuesday they are reviewing files on a Minnesota man who was a commander of a Nazi-led unit to see if they have ...
Mali and Tuareg rebels sign accord
Mali, which lost half its territory last year to a rebel invasion, signed an accord Tuesday with Tuareg separatists who still control the country's ...
Obama opens 24-hour trip to Germany
President Barack Obama is opening a 24-hour visit to Germany, the culmination of which will be a speech Wednesday at Berlin's iconic Brandenburg Gate.
Turkey's Erdogan meets top Hamas officials
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is taking a break from his troubles at home to meet top Hamas officials for talks on Palestinian ...
German prosecutors probe possible neo-Nazi bombing
German prosecutors said Tuesday they are investigating whether three alleged neo-Nazis suspected of a series of racist killings and bombings were also ...
Russia to ban married foreign gays from adopting
Russia is on its way to sharply limiting the adoption of children by people from countries that allow same-sex marriage. Under a measure that passed ...
Obama focuses on agreement after Hollande meeting
President Barack Obama says he and French President Francois Hollande agree they have strong evidence of chemical weapon use by the Syrian government.
Hungary indicts Nazi-era suspect for war crimes
Hungarian prosecutors indicted a 98-year-old former police officer Tuesday for abusing Jews and assisting in their deportation to Nazi death camps ...
Official: Olympic failure led to judoka's suicide
A Russian judo official says a four-time European judo champion who committed suicide had been depressed since failing to win a medal at last year's ...
Lawyer for Gadhafi son wants him handed to ICC
A lawyer for a son of ousted dictator Moammar Gadhafi accused Libyan authorities on Tuesday of showing a "blatant disregard" for the International ...
Turkey's 'standing man' launches new protest wave
After weeks of sometimes violent confrontation with police, protesters in Turkey have found what could be a more potent form of resistance: standing ...
Boeing nets orders for 102 stretch 787s
Boeing Co. won major orders from five customers for a stretched-out version of its popular 787 Dreamliner jet at the Paris Air Show Tuesday, further ...
EU parliament scraps Turkey visit this week
The European Union has scrapped a parliamentary visit to Turkey following the Ankara government's stinging criticism of an EU resolution about the ...
EU nations grant more asylum, Syrians top the list
European nations granted more people asylum in 2012, including seven times as many Syrians as the previous year. The European Union's statistical ...
Lavrov: Iran ready to stop 20-percent enrichment
Russia's foreign minister says Iran is willing to halt its 20-percent enrichment of uranium, which has been a key concession sought in international ...
Russia: G-8 declaration won't mention Assad's fate
The G-8 summit's joint statement on ending the Syrian civil war will not mention whether Bashar Assad must step down from power as part of any peace ...
Unions give lift to Turkish protest movement
Turkish labor groups fanned a wave of defiance against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's authority, leading rallies and a one-day strike to ...
G8 exposes rift among leaders on Syria
Deep differences over Syria's fierce civil war clouded a summit of world leaders Monday, with Russian President Vladimir Putin defiantly rejecting ...
Lucrative long-hauls get boost at Paris Air Show
Airbus and Boeing won pledges for big purchases of their lucrative long-haul wide-body jets at the Paris Air Show Monday, raising hopes that demand ...
More anti-government protests occur in Bulgaria
Bulgaria's prime minister said Monday that Parliament's appointment of a media mogul as the nation's security chief was a mistake, but that his ...