Tag: Europe

$European "grass-roots" environmental groups since 2008 have used alarmist fears about hydraulic fracking contaminating underground water supplies (even though the shale gas lies deep below the aquifer) and emitting greenhouse gases to shut down every effort to tap into those abundant reserves. (AP Photo)$ Op-Eds

Is Russia funding Europe’s anti-fracking Green protests?

Arthur Herman · July 21, 2014 9:00 pm

National Hockey League releases report on climate change and league carbon footprint

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National Hockey League releases report on climate change and league carbon footprint

Erin Mundahl · July 21, 2014 8:48 pm

Mehrere hundert Menschen beteiligen sich am 20.07.2014 an einem Protestzug durch die Innenstadt von Frankfurt am Main (Hessen) bei einer pro-palÃ¤stinensischen Kundgebung, um gegen das Vorgehen der israelischen Armee im Gazastreifen zu protestieren. "The world must Stop Israel"heiÃt es auf einem Plakat. Die Polizei ist mit einem massiven KrÃ¤fteaufgebot vor Ort. Foto: Boris Roessler +++(c) dpa - Bildfunk+++

German Jewish leader condemns anti-Semitism

Washington Examiner · July 21, 2014 12:50 pm

People sign a condolence register at St. Vitus church in Hilversum, Netherlands, Sunday, July 20, 2014. An attack on a Malaysian jetliner shot down over Ukraine on Thursday killed 298 people from nearly a dozen nations, more than half being Dutch. Worshippers at church services across the Netherlands prayed Sunday for the victims of the Ukraine air disaster and their next of kin, as anger built over the separatist rebels' hindering of the investigation into the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. (AP Photo/Patrick Post)

Distraught Dutch mother: ‘Send my children home’

Mike Corder · July 20, 2014 8:26 pm

Ukraine crisis shows divisions in old Soviet bloc

Vanessa Gera · July 19, 2014 10:45 am

Representatives from the Organization for Security and Cooperation speak to a pro-Russia fighter at the crash site of a Malaysia Airlines jet near the village of Hrabove, Friday, July 18, 2014. Representatives from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and four Ukrainian experts had traveled into rebel-controlled areas to begin an investigation into the attack that killed 298 people from nearly a dozen nations. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Credible probe sought in downing of Malaysian jet

PETER LEONARDDMITRY LOVETSKY · July 19, 2014 3:56 am

A closed desk of Malaysian airlines is seen at Schiphol airport in Amsterdam, Thursday, July 17, 2014. Ukraine said a passenger plane carrying 295 people was shot down Thursday as it flew over the country, and both the government and the pro-Russia separatists fighting in the region denied any responsibility for downing the plane. (AP Photo/Phil Nijhuis)

Why airlines didn’t avoid risky Ukraine airspace

DAVID KOENIGSCOTT MAYEROWITZ · July 18, 2014 9:55 pm

FILE - This undated 2010 file handout photo provided by AquaBounty Technologies shows two same-age salmon, a genetically modified salmon, rear, and a non-genetically modified salmon, foreground. Visions of chlorine-drenched chickens and the prospect of genetically modified "Frankenfood" invading dinner tables across the European Union are proving serious impediments to the signing of a sweeping free trade agreement between the United States and the 28-country bloc. (AP Photo/AquaBounty Technologies) NO SALES

US-EU trade talks sour amid chlorine chicken fears

Juergen Baetz · July 18, 2014 2:58 pm

In this March 25, 2014 photo, Kaylene Mann, right, and Jayden Burrows hold hands as they read a statement to the media in Brisbane, Australia, about the loss of Rod Burrows, who is Kaylene's brother and Jayden's father. Rod Burrows was among six Australians killed when Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 crashed into the Southern Indian ocean. On Friday, July 18, 2014, Mann found out that her stepdaughter, Maree Rizk, was killed along with 297 others on Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, which U.S. intelligence authorities believe was shot down by a surface-to-air missile. (AP Photo/AAP, Dan Peled) AUSTRALIA OUT, NEW ZEALAND OUT, PAPUA NEW GUINEA OUT, SOUTH PACIFIC OUT, NO SALES, NO ARCHIVE

Woman loses relatives in 2 Malaysia air disasters

Kristen Gelineau · July 18, 2014 12:39 pm

FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk players celebrate a goal during a UEFA Europa League soccer game. (Gabriele Maltinti/Getty Images)

Russia-Ukraine conflict keeps soccer clubs apart

Sean Lengell · July 17, 2014 6:27 pm

Japan wary as US, Europe up sanctions on Russia

Elaine Kurtenbach · July 17, 2014 8:15 am

EU horse-trading for bloc’s new top diplomat fails

Juergen Baetz · July 16, 2014 11:34 pm