Raf Casert

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Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at a news conference after the ASEM summit of European and Asian leaders in Milan, Italy, Friday, Oct.17, 2014. Putin met with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and key Western leaders in an attempt to negotiate a full end to hostilities in Ukraine that could ease sanctions against Russia. (AP Photo/Vasily Maximov, Pool)

Ukraine asks for big EU loan during gas standoff

Raf Casert · October 21, 2014 5:13 pm

British Foreign Minister Philip Hammond, right, speaks with Italian Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini during a round table meeting of EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg on Monday, Oct. 20, 2014. European Union nations are working to find funds to help fight Ebola in West Africa and streamline a common approach in dealing with the health crisis. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

EU seeks $1.27 billion in Ebola aid for W. Africa

Raf Casert · October 20, 2014 4:32 pm

Belgian center-right coalition clinches deal

Raf Casert · October 7, 2014 7:14 pm

EU looking to deepen sanctions against Russia

Raf Casert · September 3, 2014 3:32 pm

FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 19, 2013 file photo, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, center rear, speaks with other EU heads of state during an EU summit in Brussels. As chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel may be the most powerful politician in the European Union, but she is more mirage than reality when it gets to the place of women in EU politics. EU leaders meet on Saturday to divide top jobs for the next five years, and after years of paying lip service to more equality among the sexes, it is plain for all to see, where are the women? (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, File )

EU struggles with dearth of women in top jobs

Raf Casert · August 28, 2014 5:22 pm

In this picture taken on Monday, Jan. 6, 2014, the interior of the Leuven University Library in Leuven, Belgium. The German invading forces set the heart of Leuven alight during the early days of World War I, paying special attention to the gem of learning and history, the university library. The library was later rebuilt with donations coming from around the world. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

History in flames: Belgium recalls Leuven’s ruins

Raf Casert · August 24, 2014 10:58 am

Palestinian fishermen pull their fishnet at the Mediterranean Sea in Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Europeans pressing for Gaza harbor development

Raf Casert · August 7, 2014 4:46 pm

In this Saturday, July 26, 2014 file photo, World War I German Corporal Reinhold Dietrich, right, and British Captain Kenneth James Roy are buried side by side at the Saint Symphorien Cemetery near Mons, Belgium. Separated by only a small patch of yellow daisies at the Saint-Symphorien military cemetery lie two former enemies: British Captain Kenneth James Roy and German Gefreiter (Corporal) Reinhold Dietrich. Also between the two are some 9 million dead soldiers over four years. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)

Former enemies unite for World War I commemoration

Raf Casert · August 4, 2014 8:55 pm

In this photo taken on Saturday, July 26, 2014, the graves of World War I soldiers, Private George Ellison, background right, and Private John Parr, foreground, face each other at the Saint Symphorien Cemetery near Mons, Belgium. Parr and Ellison were the first and the last, respectively, Commonwealth soldiers to die in battle during World War I. Purely by coincidence the graves are separated only by a few feet. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Europe started WWI a century ago, blind to tragedy

Raf Casert · August 1, 2014 9:56 am

American prosecutor for the EU Special Investigative Task Force Clint Williamson holds up ten fingers as he refers to the number of possible victims during a media conference at EU headquarters in Brussels on Tuesday, July 29, 2014. Williamson says there are "compelling indications" that up to 10 captives were killed to have their organs harvested for illegal trafficking during the 1998-99 Kosovo war. The EU probe followed a 2011 Council of Europe report alleging that the rebel Kosovo Liberation Army ran detention camps on Albania's border during Kosovo's war for independence from Serbia. It alleged that civilian captives were killed there and their organs sold as part of an illegal trade linked to senior KLA commanders. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Kosovo prosecutor suspects some killed for organs

Raf Casert · July 29, 2014 1:33 pm

Exhausted US players lie on the ground as Belgium's Axel Witsel (6) celebrates at the end of the extra time during the World Cup round of 16 soccer match between Belgium and the USA at the Arena Fonte Nova in Salvador, Brazil, Tuesday, July 1, 2014. Belgium held on to beat US 2-1 in extra time.(AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Belgium holds on to beat US 2-1 in extra time

Raf Casert · July 2, 2014 12:45 am

5 things to know about Belgium ahead of US clash

Raf Casert · June 30, 2014 5:26 am