Tag: Europe

FILE - In this May 15, 2009 file photo, German chancellor Angela Merkel greets well-wishers, in Detmold, Germany. Ordinary Germans are spooked about the future. Businesses see black clouds on the horizon. And an economy that has been the envy of Europe is already showing cracks, shrinking last quarter under the strain of conflicts in Ukraine and elsewhere. It might seem like enough to put any leader into trouble. But Chancellor Angela Merkel's popularity remains sky-high _ with nobody in sight to touch her. (AP Photo/dpa, Franz-Peter Tschauner, File)

German economic fears growing but Merkel strong

David Rising · August 29, 2014 9:29 am

Alex Salmond (R) First Minister of Scotland and Alistair Darling, chairman of Better Together, took part in a debate Monday in Glasgow, Scotland. (Getty images/Jeff J Mitchell)

Scotland’s future hangs in balance

Cal Thomas · August 27, 2014 11:15 pm

Smoke rises after shelling in the town of Novoazovsk, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014. Towering columns of smoke rose Tuesday from outside a city in Ukraine's far southeast after what residents said was a heavy artillery barrage. It was the second straight day that attacks were reported in the vicinity of Novoazovsk, which is in eastern Ukraine's separatist Donetsk region but previously had seen little fighting between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian rebels. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Battle for Ukraine’s southeast coast heats up

Peter Leonard · August 27, 2014 8:24 pm

Ukrainian soldiers park their hardware on roadside as they are waiting for the start of the march into the town of Mariupol, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014. Heavy shelling hit a town of Novoazovsk in southeastern Ukraine on Wednesday, the third day of an assault that has forced government troops to spread their ranks thinner along the Russian border. Ukraine claimed the shelling was coming both from pro-Russian separatists and from Russia itself. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

US: Russia directing new offensive in Ukraine

Bradley Klapper · August 27, 2014 7:49 pm

Germany plans to tighten EU migration rules

Kirsten Grieshaber · August 27, 2014 1:14 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, shakes hands with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, right, as Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, center, looks at them, prior to their talks after after posing for a photo in Minsk, Belarus, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014. Leaders of Russia, Belarus, two other former Soviet republics as well as top EU officials are meeting in Minsk, Belarus, for a highly anticipated summit to discuss the crisis in Ukraine which has left more than 2,000 dead and displaced over 300,000 people. (AP Photo/Kazakh Presidential Press Service, Sergei Bondarenko, Pool)

No sign of quick end to Ukraine conflict

NATALIYA VASILYEVAPETER LEONARD · August 27, 2014 12:15 am

FILE - In this May 11, 2007, file photo, a Wall Street sign is mounted near the flag-draped facade of the New York Stock Exchange. Global stock markets were mostly higher Monday, Aug. 25, 2014, after top central bankers in Europe and Japan said support for their economies would continue and additional help is possible. Investors are hoping the stock market will pick up steam this week. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Asia stocks lackluster, US economic data awaited

Joe McDonald · August 26, 2014 3:39 am

In this photo taken on Saturday, Aug. 23, 2014, Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko makes a statement to the press in Kiev, Ukraine. Poroshenko on Monday, Aug. 25, dissolved parliament and called for early elections in October 26 as his country continues to battle a pro-Russian insurgency in its eastern regions. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Ukrainian president dissolves parliament

Jim Heintz · August 25, 2014 8:35 pm

Iceland lowers aviation alert level from volcano

JENNA GOTTLIEBJILL LAWLESS · August 24, 2014 1:04 pm

Energy and Environment

Airlines on alert as eruption begins in Iceland

JENNA GOTTLIEBJILL LAWLESS · August 23, 2014 9:34 pm

Drivers of the first trucks of the Russian aid convoy are parked in the city of Luhansk, eastern Ukraine, Friday, Aug. 22, 2014. The first trucks in a Russian aid convoy crossed into eastern Ukraine on Friday, after more than a week's delay. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

West condemns Russia over convoy to Ukraine

MSTYSLAV CHERNOVPETER LEONARD · August 22, 2014 11:45 pm

First trucks of the Russian aid convoy stand in the Russian inspection zone inside a border control point with Ukraine, in the Russian town of Donetsk, Rostov-on-Don region, Russia, Thursday, Aug. 21, 2014. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Russian aid convoy advances toward Ukraine

Nataliya Vasilyeva · August 21, 2014 8:12 pm