Tag: Europe

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

An ambulance transporting Miguel Pajares, a Spanish priest who was infected with the Ebola virus while working in Liberia, leaves the Military Air Base of Torrejon de Ardoz, near Madrid, Spain, Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014 after his arrival in Spain. A priest who has been confirmed as the first Spaniard to be infected by the current outbreak of the ebola virus has been brought back to Spain for treatment. Pajares, a missionary priest based in Liberia, is one of the 1,711 reported cases to have been confirmed since March, when the most deadly wave of the condition began. As well as Liberia, where Pajares was based, the epidemic is also affecting Sierra Leone and Nigeria, with nearly 932 deaths reported so far. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)

Spain priest with Ebola stable in Madrid hospital

Ciaran Giles · August 7, 2014 11:53 am

Residents inspect the damage after night shelling on a market in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014. Airstrikes and artillery fire between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian troops have brought the violence closer than ever to the city center, as Kiev's forces move in on the rebel stronghold. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Tensions grow in Ukraine over Russia troop buildup

Yuras Karmanau · August 7, 2014 2:34 am

Boris Johnson, the Conservative mayor of London, has announced that he will run for a seat in Parliament in the election scheduled for May 2015.ÃÂ (Getty Images)

Beltway Confidential

A political game-changer in Britain: Boris Johnson is running for Parliament

Michael Barone · August 6, 2014 6:55 pm

A man watches from a jetty as a Mistral-class French amphibious warship docks on the Neva River in downtown St. Petersburg, Russia, Monday, Nov. 23, 2009. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Sell French warships to NATO, not Russia

Austin Bay · August 6, 2014 3:07 pm

FILE - In this July 31, 2012 file photo the euro sculpture stands in front of the headquarters of the European Central Bank, ECB, in Frankfurt, Germany. The crisis in Ukraine and a hesitant recovery in Europe are casting shadows over the European Central Bank's meeting Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014. Economists say the monetary authority for the 18 countries that use the euro will look to reassure markets that it is ready to add more stimulus measures if the economy takes a serious turn for the worse. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)

Ukraine looms over European Central Bank meeting

David McHugh · August 6, 2014 3:06 pm

In this map released on July 31, 2014, by the Joint Agency Coordination Centre, details are presented in the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in the southern Indian Ocean. Australian Transport Minister Warren Truss said on Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014, that Dutch contractor Fugro Survey Pty. Ltd. will conduct the underwater search for the Malaysian airliner that crashed off the Australian coast in March. (AP Photo/Joint Agency Coordination Centre) EDITORIAL USE ONLY

Dutch contractor selected for Malaysian jet search

Rod McGuirk · August 6, 2014 2:55 am

This Slate Blogger Just Totally Contradicted Himself

This Slate Blogger Just Totally Contradicted Himself

Ethan Epstein · August 5, 2014 8:33 pm

EU airline shares drop on Russian airspace report

EU airline shares drop on Russian airspace report

Washington Examiner · August 5, 2014 5:15 pm

Rescue workers carry the body of woman who was killed during shelling in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014. Ukrainian troops took control of a checkpoint Tuesday on the western edge of the main rebel stronghold of Donetsk as the government makes further gradual advances to quash pro-Russian separatist forces in the east. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Ukraine fighting reaches rebel-held Donetsk

Yuras Karmanau · August 5, 2014 4:44 pm

Israeli reserve solders gather in a staging area near the Israel-Gaza border, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Western anti-Semitism revealed in Gaza conflict

Walter Williams · August 5, 2014 3:57 pm

World engineers honor Polish Enigma code breakers

Washington Examiner · August 5, 2014 3:43 pm