Tag: Europe

German industry production down 3rd straight month

Washington Examiner · July 7, 2014 11:15 am

FILE - In this Friday, May 16, 2014, file photo, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen speaks during a joint briefing with Romanian President Traian Basescu, at the Cotroceni presidential palace in Bucharest, Romania. Faced with a newly aggressive Russia, NATO has been mulling how to react, but it is ruling out one option: rapid expansion. (AP Photo/Octav Ganea, Mediafax, File) ROMANIA OUT

NATO signals no new members for the present

JohnThor Dahlburg · July 5, 2014 5:28 pm

A woman holds a poster reading "Save Donbas People" as Russian Communists party activists gather in support of pro-Russian fighters and local citizens who live in Donetsk and Luhansk regions of eastern Ukraine in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, July 3, 2014. Ukraine's president shook up the leadership of his struggling military on Thursday, appointing a new defense minister and top general tasked with stamping out the corruption that has left the country's armed forces faltering before a pro-Russian insurgency. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Ukraine claims winning ground in rebellious east

David McHugh · July 4, 2014 6:24 pm

Unemployment protest hits French theater festival

Washington Examiner · July 4, 2014 2:06 pm

Valentina, who gave only her first name, gestures in a flat of her neighbor who was injured during shelling in the city of Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, July 3, 2014. Residential areas came under shelling on Thursday from government forces. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Ukraine’s president shakes up military leadership

David McHugh · July 3, 2014 11:37 pm

President of European Central Bank Mario Draghi is on his way to a news conference in Frankfurt, Germany, Thursday, July 3, 2014, following a meeting of the ECB governing council. The ECB decided to leave its main interest rate unchanged. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

ECB seeks transparency, vows support to economy

Pan Pylas · July 3, 2014 6:56 pm

Smoke rises from the Kabul airport after an attack in Afghanistan, Thursday, July 3, 2014. An Afghan official says militants fired two rockets into the military side of the Kabul airport, striking President Hamid Karzai's helicopter as it sat on the tarmac. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

EU urges wider fraud probe in Afghan elections

Amir Shah · July 3, 2014 6:33 pm

German chancellor Angela Merkel, center right, stands next to labor minister Andrea Nahles, center left, as they are surrounded by parliamentarians casting their vote in the German parliament, Bundestag, in Berlin Thursday July 3, 2014. The German Parliament has approved the introduction of the country's first national minimum wage, which will guarantee most workers in Europe's biggest economy at least 8.50 euros (US $11.60) per hour starting next year. (AP Photo/dpa, Maurizio Gambarini)

German Parliament OKs national minimum wage

Geir Moulson · July 3, 2014 3:41 pm

Pro-Russian fighters stand in their positions, as they patrol the airspace near Luhansk, eastern Ukraine Wednesday, July 2, 2014. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Foreign ministers agree on Ukraine cease-fire path

Frank Jordans · July 2, 2014 7:36 pm

German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen, right, speaks with Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier prior to the weekly cabinet meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Wednesday, July 2, 2014. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

German minister backs weapons-capable drones

Washington Examiner · July 2, 2014 2:59 pm

People grieve over the body of their friend, a policeman killed during assault by pro-Russian fighters the Interior Ministry headquarters in downtown Donetsk, eastern Ukraine Tuesday, July 1, 2014. The rebels captured the Interior Ministry headquarters in a major city after an hours-long gun battle, a day after the president said rebels weren't serious about peace talks and ended a cease-fire. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Pro-Russian rebels capture police HQ in Ukraine

Balint Szlanko · July 1, 2014 9:18 pm

Eurosceptic members of the European Parliament, turn their back as an orchestra performs the European anthem in the European parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France, Tuesday, July 1, 2014, on the inaugural day of the session, after general elections in the 27 countries of the European Union. (AP Photo/Christian Lutz)

Fringe parties change face of new EU Parliament

Juergen Baetz · July 1, 2014 3:01 pm