Tag: Europe

A woman exits a subway station next to a Portuguese bank Banco Espirito Santo's offices building, in Lisbon, Monday, Aug. 4, 2014. Portugal's biggest banking scandal, which compelled authorities Sunday to put up euro 4.9 billion ($6.6 billion) to prevent the collapse of ailing Banco Espirito Santo, raised key questions about how regulators were apparently hoodwinked and focused minds on the European banking system stress tests, whose results are due in October. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Portugal bank collapse hits French financial group

Washington Examiner · August 5, 2014 10:52 am

In this Saturday, Aug. 2, 2014, photo a convoy of Azerbaijan's Army tanks moves in the direction of Agdam, Azerbaijan. Recent days have seen a sharp escalation in fighting between Azerbaijan and Armenia around a tense line of control around Nagorno-Karabakh. (AP Photo/Abbas Atilay)

Death toll rises in Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict

aida-sultanova · August 5, 2014 12:35 am

East Ukraine city dying under siege

Yuras Karmanau · August 4, 2014 7:00 pm

German Vice Chancellor and Minister for Economy and Energy Sigmar Gabriel talks to ministers as he leads the cabinet meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, July 30, 2014. During the vacation of German Chancellor Angela Merkel the Vice Chancellor leads the government's cabinet meeting. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Germany nixes Russia military simulator deal

Geir Moulson · August 4, 2014 9:18 am

Australian and Dutch experts examine a piece of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 plane, near the village of Hrabove, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine Friday, Aug.1, 2014. The investigators from the Netherlands and Australia plus officials with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe traveled from the rebel-held city of Donetsk in 15 cars and a bus to the crash site outside the village of Hrabove. Then they started setting up a base to work from at a chicken farm. The investigative team's top priority is to recover human remains that have been rotting in midsummer heat of 90 degrees (32 degrees Celsius) since the plane went down on July 17. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Ukraine: Body parts retrieved at jet crash site

MSTYSLAV CHERNOVPETER LEONARD · August 1, 2014 7:28 pm

Ukraine, Russia spar over soccer in Crimea

James Ellingworth · August 1, 2014 5:28 pm

Italy, Poland vie for top EU foreign policy job

Juergen Baetz · August 1, 2014 3:29 pm

In this photo taken on Saturday, July 26, 2014, the graves of World War I soldiers, Private George Ellison, background right, and Private John Parr, foreground, face each other at the Saint Symphorien Cemetery near Mons, Belgium. Parr and Ellison were the first and the last, respectively, Commonwealth soldiers to die in battle during World War I. Purely by coincidence the graves are separated only by a few feet. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Europe started WWI a century ago, blind to tragedy

Raf Casert · August 1, 2014 9:56 am

A pro-Russian rebel throws a hat to his comrade to keep uniform formality as the convoy of the OSCE mission in Ukraine approaches to a check-point near the village of Rassipne, near the scene of the Malaysia Airlines plane crash, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, July 31, 2014. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Investigators reach Ukraine jet wreckage site

Mstyslav Chernov · July 31, 2014 8:29 pm

People walk past the headquarters of Russian Agricultural Bank in downtown Moscow, Russia, on Wednesday, July 30, 2014. The European Union approved dramatically tougher economic sanctions Tuesday, July 29, against Russia, followed swiftly by a new round of U.S. penalties. Among the targets were three Russian banks: the Bank of Moscow, Russian Agricultural Bank and VTB Bank, Russia's second largest bank. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

EU identifies 5 Russian banks it is sanctioning

Juergen Baetz · July 31, 2014 5:06 pm

Poles protest Russian ban on their food with humor

Washington Examiner · July 31, 2014 4:14 pm

Russian President speaks during a meeting outside the Tzar Pushka ( Tzar Cannon) in Moscow's Kremlin, Russia, Thursday, July 31, 2014. Putin on Thursday presented state awards to cosmonauts, lawmakers, journalists and others. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti Kremlin, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)

AP Analysis: Putin cornered over Ukraine

Vladimir Isachenkov · July 31, 2014 4:13 pm