Tag: Europe

Venice mayor says 'effects of climate change' to blame for near-historic flooding

John Gage · November 13, 2019 10:06 am

Magazine - Life & Arts

London calling

Martin Kaufmann · November 8, 2019 4:00 am

Soccer player penalized for killing chicken during game

Ellie Bufkin · November 6, 2019 4:54 pm

Queen Elizabeth II, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, proceed through the Royal Gallery before delivering the Queen's Speech during the State Opening of Parliament in the House of Lords at the Palace of Westminster in London. PA Photo. Picture date: Monday October 14, 2019. See PA story POLITICS Speech

Prince Charles caught up in multimillion-dollar fake art scandal

Zach Halaschak · November 4, 2019 7:02 pm

Britain's Conservative Party lawmaker Boris Johnson arrives to launch his leadership campaign, in London, Wednesday June 12, 2019.

Boris Johnson secures British election next month as opposition Labour backs vote amid Brexit crisis

Carlin Becker · October 29, 2019 11:43 am

Emergency service personnel with a bomb-sniffing dog work outside the building that houses New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office after a report of a suspicious package.

Beltway Confidential

ISIS revenge attacks are likely

Tom Rogan · October 28, 2019 1:47 pm

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson speaks during a media conference after a meeting of the EU3 and Iran at EEAS headquarters in Brussels on Thursday Jan. 11, 2018. European Union foreign ministers held talks with their Iranian counterpart in Brussels on Thursday amid doubts over the future of an international agreement curbing the Islamic Republic's nuclear ambitions.

European leaders agree to Brexit extension

Caitlin Yilek · October 28, 2019 8:45 am

Relatives of late dictator Gen. Francisco Franco carry his coffin at Mingorrubio's cemetery, outskirts of Madrid, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019. Spain has exhumed the remains of Spanish dictator Gen. Francisco Franco from his grandiose mausoleum outside Madrid and flown them by helicopter for reburial in a small family crypt north of the capital. The government-ordered, closed-door operation on Thursday satisfies a decades-old desire of many in Spain who considered the vainglorious mausoleum that Franco built an affront to the tens of thousands who died in Spain's Civil War and his subsequent regime as well as to Spain's standing as a modern democratic state.

Spain removes body of dictator Gen. Francisco Franco from ornate mausoleum after 44 years

Zach Halaschak · October 24, 2019 2:58 pm

‘Unimaginable tragedy’: 39 trafficking victims found dead in UK truck were Chinese nationals

Ellie Bufkin · October 24, 2019 8:15 am

An aerial view as police forensic officers attend the scene after a truck was found to contain a large number of dead bodies, in Thurock, South England, Wednesday Oct. 23, 2019. Police in southeastern England said that 39 people were found dead Wednesday inside a container truck believed to have come from Bulgaria.

‘People trafficking’: Driver arrested after 39 bodies found in truck in England

Caitlin Yilek · October 23, 2019 11:27 am

US Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland, center, arrives at the US Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019. Sondland is planning to tell House impeachment investigators that he was disappointed Trump directed him to work with his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani on Ukraine policy and that he believe it's wrong to invite a foreign government to conduct investigation for the purpose of influencing American elections.

Central figure in impeachment inquiry overseeing $1M taxpayer-funded home renovation

Zach Halaschak · October 17, 2019 7:16 pm

Boris Johnson, British Prime Minister, at the United Nations, Sept. 23, 2019, in New York.

‘We’ve got a great deal’: UK and EU agree to Brexit deal

Zach Halaschak · October 17, 2019 12:17 pm