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Obama hails Nunn, Lugar efforts to secure nukes
Hailing two decades of efforts to help the former Soviet Union secure nuclear weapons stockpiles, President Barack Obama said Monday that the world ...
Obama thanks Bulgaria for Afghanistan efforts
President Barack Obama is thanking Bulgaria for its contributions and sacrifices in the U.S.-lead war in Afghanistan. Obama spoke in the Oval Office ...
More street protests rock tiny EU nation Slovenia
Slovenia's prime minister is on trial accused of involvement in a bribery scandal. The main opposition leader — who is also mayor of the capital — is ...
Russia, Turkey downplay Syria differences
The leaders of Russia and Turkey on Monday downplayed differences over the Syrian civil war, saying they shared the common goal of trying to end the ...
Clinton pushes US bid for Czech nuclear project
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton lobbied the Czech government Monday to approve an American bid for a $10 billion expansion of a nuclear ...
Turkey's defense, Pakistan top Clinton's agenda
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has arrived in the Czech Republic for talks on energy policy in a country heavily dependent on Russian fuel.
Exit poll: Ex-PM Pahor wins Slovenia presidency
Former Slovenia Prime Minister Borut Pahor won the presidential election Sunday, calling for unity in the tiny EU nation where discontent has been ...
Albania, Kosovo urge probe of prosecutor Del Ponte
Albania and Kosovo have called for an independent investigation into former Hague Tribunal prosecutor Carla del Ponte for her "tendentious and illegal ...
Napoleon's coded Kremlin letter sold for $243,500
A secret code letter sent by French emperor Napoleon boasting that his multinational forces would blow up Moscow's Kremlin has sold at auction Sunday ...
Thousands attend anti-Nazi rally in Hungary
Thousands attended an anti-Nazi rally Sunday in Hungary organized by Jewish and civic groups to protest a far-right lawmaker's call to screen Jews for ...
Slovenes choose leader amid uncertainty
Voters in small, crisis-hit Slovenia chose a president on Sunday amid growing discontent with government cost-cutting measures designed to avoid an ...
Iran says nuclear fuel removed because of debris
Iran's nuclear chief says fuel was removed from the country's sole nuclear reactor in October because debris had been left behind during its ...
Vampire on the loose in Serbia?
Get your garlic, crosses and stakes ready: a bloodsucking vampire is on the loose. Or so say villagers in the tiny western Serbian hamlet of Zarozje, ...
Israel thanks Czech Republic for support at UN
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has thanked his Czech counterpart for Prague's vote at the U.N. against recognizing a Palestinian state.
Clashes in Slovenia before presidential vote
Clashes broke out Friday night in the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana as angry demonstrators tried to push through a police cordon to storm parliament ...
Bulgaria offers citizenship to foreign investors
Here's one way to boost an ailing economy: Bulgaria is offering citizenship to foreigners ready to invest at least half a million euros ($650,000).
Ukraine fights spreading HIV epidemic
Andrei Mandrykin, an inmate at Prison No. 85 outside Kiev, has HIV. He looks ghostly and much older than his 35 years. But Mandrykin is better off ...
Napoleon's secret coded Kremlin letter on sale
The single line of Napoleon's secret code told Paris of his desperate, last order against the Russians: "At three o'clock in the morning, on the 22nd ...
Clinton warns Georgia, Ukraine on prosecutions
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton warned Georgia's new government Thursday not to engage in political prosecutions of former government ...
Former Kosovo prime minister returns to Kosovo
A former prime minister of Kosovo pledged Thursday to political life after a U.N. war crimes tribunal acquitted him for the second time of murdering ...
Russian whistleblower's death in UK unexplained
British officials are investigating the unexplained death of a Russian businessman, a key witness against Russian officials who allegedly stole $230 ...
UN offers prize to illuminate 3,000 Bosnian homes
Challenge prizes have inspired inventions like margarine or canned food or achievements like the Lindbergh flight over the Atlantic. To help people ...
Court bans video of Pussy Riot's performance
The video of punk band Pussy Riot's performance in Russia's main cathedral is extremist and must be removed from the web, a Moscow court ruled ...
Russian children find lion cub, take it to school
Most primary school classes get a goldfish to keep, a hamster or a turtle if they're lucky — but children from one village in southern Russia got to ...
Spat with neighbors sours Albanian century party
Albania celebrated 100 years of independence Wednesday with a military parade, festive cavalcades and an 18-ton cake. But the celebrations were soured ...