Tag: Europe

People carry a stretcher with a dead man after shelling by the Ukrainian forces in Makiivka, 25 km (16 miles) from Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014. Government troops on Tuesday pressed attacks in the two largest cities held by pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine, as Kiev also pursued diplomatic efforts to resolve the conflict that has killed more than 2,000. (AP Photo/Antoine E.R. Delaunay)

Ukrainian govt troops take over much of Luhansk

NATALIYA VASILYEVAPETER LEONARD · August 20, 2014 8:06 pm

FILE - In this April 4, 2014 file photo a spiraling torque from the second century A.D., is displayed as part of the exhibit called The Crimea - Gold and Secrets of the Black Sea, at Allard Pierson historical museum in Amsterdam. The museum says it sees no choice but to hold on to a number of highly valuable objects it borrowed from Ukranian museums for the time being, because it is unable to reconcile competing claims from museum. The museum borrowed the items from the museums before Russia annexed the Crimea, and it says returning them now to one side or the other would lead to legal claims. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

Dutch museum to hold Crimean gold

Washington Examiner · August 20, 2014 3:55 pm

German Chancellor Angela Merkel smiles as she arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Angela Merkel’s Ukraine role mirrors rising German ambition

Geir Moulson · August 20, 2014 2:43 pm

A worker paints yellow over the blue at one of Moscow's Stalin-era skyscraper with a star on top, which was painted in colors of Ukrainian national flag in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

Protesters plant Ukraine flag on Moscow skyscraper

Washington Examiner · August 20, 2014 1:01 pm

Local residents stand in line to get benefit payments outside the rebel headquarters in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014. A crowd formed outside the rebel headquarters, once the Donetsk region administrative building, in Donetsk amid rumors that pension and disability payments and child assistance were being given out. (AP Photo/Max Vetrov)

Ukraine’s rebel capital seeks ersatz normality

Peter Leonard · August 20, 2014 9:10 am

A Russian military truck carries a MSTA-S self-propelled howitzer about 10 kilometers from the Russia-Ukrainian border control point at town Donetsk, Rostov-on-Don region, Russia, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014. Ukrainian government troops were fighting pro-Russian rebels in the streets of Luhansk on Tuesday and captured most of a town near the eastern city of Donetsk, tightening the noose around that key rebel-held stronghold, Ukrainian officials said. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Ukrainian forces press attacks on rebel-held areas

Peter Leonard · August 19, 2014 6:43 pm

Thousands of intense earthquakes rock Iceland

Washington Examiner · August 19, 2014 3:01 pm

A Russian APC moves in a field in about 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) from the Russia-Ukrainian border control point at Russian town of Donetsk, Rostov-on-Don region, Monday, Aug. 18, 2014. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Ukraine: Dozens killed in shelling of convoy

Nataliya Vasilyeva · August 19, 2014 1:05 am

In this image taken Saturday Aug. 16, 2014 a man shows his neighbour's apartment that was burned down after a missile hit a residential area in Lysychansk, Ukraine, during the fighting between the Ukrainian army and the pro-Russian rebels. Lysychansk was retaken by Ukrainian army late last month but has seen sporadic clashes until earlier last week. After months of rebel occupation and weeks of Ukrainian liberation, the residents of Lysychansk this shell-shocked border town say they hope simply to rebuild their former lives _ but fear the return of war to their doorstep. (AP Photo/Vitnija Saldava)

Grief, relief as ravaged Ukrainian town rebuilds

Vitnija Saldava · August 18, 2014 6:30 pm

Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has promisedÃÂ to reform Italy's employment law but failed to do so. (AP/Antonio Calanni)

Beltway Confidential

The inevitable and tragic decline of Italy

Michael Barone · August 18, 2014 4:51 pm

Drivers prepare to show cargos to journalists in a field where the aid convoy is parked in Voronezh, about 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Ukrainian border, Rostov-on-Don region, Russia, Friday, Aug. 15, 2014. The Ukrainian government threatened to use all means available to block the convoy if the Red Cross was not allowed to inspect the cargo. Such an inspection would ease concerns that Russia could use the aid shipment as cover for a military incursion in support of the separatists, who have come under growing pressure from government troops. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Russia denies its vehicles destroyed in Ukraine

Washington Examiner · August 15, 2014 11:07 pm

Merkel to Putin: Halt flow of arms to Ukraine

Merkel to Putin: Halt flow of arms to Ukraine

Washington Examiner · August 15, 2014 8:19 pm