Tag: Europe

UN: OK to use untested Ebola drugs in outbreak

MARIA CHENGCIARAN GILES · August 13, 2014 2:43 am

"[I]f China were to stop using pure-exporter subsidies," economists from the London School of Economics concluded in a paper presented in 2012, "it would experience a welfare gain of approximately 3 percent." (Photo by ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images)

China and Europe hurt themselves with export subsidies; let’s not emulate them

Timothy P. Carney · August 13, 2014 12:41 am

In this image taken from video a convoy of white trucks with humanitarian aid leaves Alabino, outside Moscow Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014. The convoy of 280 Russian trucks headed for eastern Ukraine early Tuesday, one day after agreement was reached on an international humanitarian relief mission. But the international Red Cross, which is due to coordinate the operation, said it had no information on what the trucks were carrying or where they were going. (AP Photo/ RTR via Associated Press Television) TV OUT RUSSIA OUT

Ukraine: Russian aid can enter with Red Cross

PETER LEONARDVLADIMIR ISACHENKOV · August 12, 2014 8:30 pm

In this Sunday, Aug. 10, 2014 file photo, displaced Iraqis from the Yazidi community settle at a camp at Derike, Syria.

Europe pledges aid, equipment to help Iraq

DANICA KIRKAFRANK JORDANS · August 12, 2014 7:27 pm

Italy’s troubles weigh on eurozone

David McHugh · August 12, 2014 3:41 pm

Workers have their temperature taken before entering the Freeport area, an important commercial port facility, Monrovia, Liberia, Monday, Aug. 11, 2014. Experts say fear and misunderstanding of Ebola have led many to ignore medical advice, fueling the disease's spread. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh)

Liberian doctors to get experimental Ebola drug

JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEHMARIA CHENG · August 12, 2014 2:09 am

A prisoner tramples smoldering grass in a high-security facility after shelling in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Monday, Aug. 11, 2014. Local authorities say more than 100 prisoners have fled from a high-security facility after it was hit by shelling in the rebel stronghold of Donetsk. City council spokesman Maxim Rovensky said Monday a jail riot was precipitated by a direct rocket hit that claimed the life of at least one inmate. The fugitives include people jailed for murder, robbery and rape. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Ukraine OKs Red Cross-led aid mission to east

YURAS KARMANAUPETER LEONARD · August 11, 2014 7:45 pm

Italians go to school to learn about corruption

Kavitha Surana · August 11, 2014 6:54 am

FILE - This is a Saturday, Aug. 11, 2012, file photo Russian President Vladimir Putin, and U.S. actor Steven Seagal, left, as they watch the first Russian national championship of mixed martial arts in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, southern Russia. The Russian news RIA Novosti says American actor Steven Seagal has performed at a concert in the breakaway region of Crimea on a stage decorated with the flag of pro-Russian separatists fighting in eastern Ukraine. Seagal, who knows Russian President Vladimir Putin, performed Saturday Aug. 9, 2014 in the Black Sea port city of Sevastopol at a concert organized by a motorcycle gang of Russian nationalists known as the Night Wolves. Russia annexed the Ukrainian region in March.(AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service, File)

Report: US actor Steven Seagal performs in Crimea

Associated Press · August 10, 2014 6:44 pm

New Ukrainian rebel leader gives Moscow distance

Yuras Karmanau · August 8, 2014 7:38 pm

Canada will send military supplies to Ukraine

Canada will send military supplies to Ukraine

Washington Examiner · August 7, 2014 8:43 pm

Women choose Dutch tomatoes at a supermarket in downtown Moscow on Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014. The Russian government has banned all imports of meat, fish, milk and milk products and fruit and vegetables from the United States, the European Union, Australia, Canada and Norway, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev announced Thursday. The move was taken on orders from President Vladimir Putin in response to sanctions imposed on Russia by the West over the crisis in Ukraine. The ban has been introduced for one year. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

Russia retaliates on West’s sanctions over Ukraine

Vladimir Isachenkov · August 7, 2014 7:23 pm