A White House official said the next Trump-Putin meeting would address national security concerns they discussed in Helsinki, including Russian meddling.

Chancellor Angela Merkel said Friday that trans-Atlantic cooperation, including with the United States, is "of course central for us and I will continue to nurture it." In regards to the recent meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, Merkel said "I think it should become normal again for Russian and American presidents to meet."

Intent on drawing Allied reserves into the area from northern France and Belgium in July 1918, Germany’s military commander Erich Ludendorff sent his troops to cross one of the key gateways to Paris. But the American Expeditionary Force’s 3rd Division stood in their way.

Sweden is fighting its most serious wildfires in decades — including blazes above the Arctic Circle — prompting the government to seek help from the military, hundreds of volunteers and other European nations.

A man armed with a 5-inch kitchen knife attacked passengers Friday on a crowded city bus in northern Germany before being overpowered and arrested, authorities said. Ten people were injured, three of them seriously.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump discussed the possibility of a referendum in separatist-leaning eastern Ukraine during their Helsinki summit, Russia's ambassador to the U.S. said Friday.

French investigators on Friday detained for questioning one of President Emmanuel Macron's top security aides who was caught on camera beating a protester in May, sparking a major political crisis for the French leader.

World War III? Not us, say puzzled and concerned Montenegrins. Public officials in the tiny Balkan nation in southeastern Europe didn't know what to say initially when U.S. President Donald Trump suggested Montenegro could set off a global Armageddon with a military of fewer than 2,000 members.

During the exercises, Russian forces opened fire Tuesday in a village called Panic, and panic indeed ensued. The Russian military has since apologized for failing to warn the Armenian villagers they were holding war games in their midst.

A White House meeting would be a dramatic extension of legitimacy to the Russian leader, who has been isolated by the West for activities in Ukraine, Syria and beyond. No Russian leader has visited the White House in nearly a decade.

Russia's military is testing an array of new nuclear and other weapons, from a high-powered laser weapon system to a nuclear-powered cruise missile with "unlimited" range.

A Russian prosecutor wants to question several U.S. citizens in connection with an investigation many U.S. officials say is bogus. The list is believed to include at least three former diplomats, a congressional staffer, a CIA agent, a staffer for the National Security Council and two special agents at the Department of Homeland Security.

Belgium's airspace was closed off for landings and departures Thursday afternoon because of a technical glitch in the data system of the air safety control center.

A video showing one of French President Emmanuel Macron's security chiefs beating a student demonstrator, until now cloaked in secrecy, is drawing a fierce public backlash over what is seen as mild punishment and a possible cover-up.

Saudi Arabian Military Industries says it has signed a deal with Spanish state-owned shipbuilder Navantia to establish a joint venture to supply five warships.

Hungary has been referred to the European Union's highest court for perceived failings to comply with the bloc's asylum rules and is facing censure for legislation criminalizing the support of asylum-seekers by civic groups.

Radio Free Europe said Thursday that it will resume news services in Romania and Bulgaria in a bid to debunk fake news and combat poor-quality journalism.

Last week, President Donald Trump gave his backing to NATO after a contentious meeting of heads of state in Brussels, where Trump reportedly threatened to go it alone if members didn’t spend 2 percent of their respective gross domestic products on defense.

The four-day intensive exercise on creating live munitions in an austere environment provided planning and production techniques normally seen only at the Air Force Combat Ammunition Center at Beale Air Force Base, Calif.

The 173rd Airborne Brigade’s 24-hour relay race, the Running of the Herd, changed from its laid-back Vicenza inception in November 2013, complete with costumes and adult beverages, to this year’s grueling competition on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Border controls have returned to a continent that once exulted in transcending them, and with that shift, Europe has begun sacrificing its cherished ideal of free movement.

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump paid their respects Wednesday to the family of a Secret Service agent who died in Scotland while supporting their overseas trip.

The agent, a 19-year veteran of the agency, suffered the stroke on Sunday and was treated in Scotland. The Secret Service said the agent was a "dedicated professional of the highest order" and thanked the medical personnel who gave him "exceptional care and support."

European regulators came down hard on another U.S. tech giant Wednesday, fining Google a record $5 billion for forcing cellphone makers that use the company's Android operating system to install Google search and browser apps.

Nineteen people drowned when a boat loaded with as many as 150 people who were thought to be migrants capsized off the northern coast of Cyprus, a Turkish Cypriot official said Wednesday.

Russia stepped up its criticism of Greece over the expulsion of two of its diplomats, accusing the Greek government Wednesday of participating in "dirty provocations" around Macedonia's plan to become a NATO member.

A Turkish court on Wednesday rejected appeals to release Andrew Brunson, an American pastor being tried on terrorism-related charges whose prosecution and lengthy imprisonment has become a flash point in the increasingly testy relationship between the United States and Turkey.

As Turkey's controversial two-year-long state of emergency comes to an end, the government is set to introduce new anti-terrorism laws it says are needed to deal with continued security threats. The opposition insists the laws are just as oppressive as the emergency powers they will replace.

More than 40 U.S. Marines sent to southeastern Ukraine to train with the local marines as part of the 19-country Sea Breeze exercise, which U.S. officials hope will encourage the country’s military to emulate western armed forces to meet NATO standards.

Russia's president offered to allow U.S. investigators to question Russian military agents accused of hacking the Democratic Party. In exchange, Russia wants to question U.S. officials suspected of involvement in alleged financial crimes by a British investor.

A former British politician has been found guilty of murdering his wife after she found out he had an affair with their son's partner, the mother of one of his grandchildren.

An iceberg that has drifted perilously close to a remote Greenland village is so big it can be seen from space.

Proactiva Open Arms, a Spanish rescue group, accused Libya's coast guard of abandoning three people in the Mediterranean Sea, including a woman and a toddler who died, after intercepting 160 Europe-bound migrants.

Djamel Beghal, an Algerian-born man twice convicted in France on terror charges and for years a high-profile figure in the underground world of terrorism, has been expelled to stand trial in his homeland.

For Vladimir Putin, holding a summit with Donald Trump was a victory in itself. While the U.S. leader went home to widespread criticism after their Monday meeting, the Russian president came home to universal praise in Moscow.

Under normal Marine field conditions, scarcity might make Skittles or jalapeno cheese spread from a Meals, Ready to Eat pouch worth trading. But on a base outside Mykolaiv, where Marines trained with their Ukrainian marine counterparts as part of the 19-nation Sea Breeze naval exercise this month, the American staples can net more unusual goods.

Many farmers are battling for survival after a heatwave and drought swept across northern parts of the continent, damaging crops from wheat to barley.

To steal politically-sensitive information, prosecutors say, hackers exploited some of the United States' own computer infrastructure against it, using servers they leased in Arizona and Illinois.

British Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson unveiled a full-sized model of the country's new fighter jet at the Farnborough International Airshow, a bid to show that Britain plans to remain a so-called Tier One military power after Brexit.

The latest to enter this private-sector space race is the U.K., which announced Monday that it plans to construct the nation's first commercial vertical launch spaceport in northern Scotland.

President Donald Trump has told a British TV interviewer that Queen Elizabeth II told him Brexit is "complex."

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Exercise Sea Breeze is a lot like many other annual drills at the operational level. But in this case, Ukrainians are going to use what they learn to fight separatists backed by Russia.

In an extraordinary embrace of a longtime U.S. enemy, President Donald Trump on Monday openly questioned his own intelligence agencies' firm finding that Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. election to his benefit, seeming to accept Russian President Vladimir Putin's insistence that Moscow's hands were clean.

President Donald Trump says "nothing bad ... maybe some good" will come out of Monday's summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The U.S. president told reporters Friday that he had given the British leader a suggestion that she found too "brutal." Asked Sunday on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show what that suggestion was, May said: "He told me I should sue the EU."

As President Donald Trump began a six-day trip to Europe, Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who said he wanted to talk to the Russian leader "without intermediaries." Hours later, Putin sat down with Ali Akbar Velayati, the foreign policy adviser to Iran's supreme leader.

Metropolitan Police announced a breakthrough in the case Friday when they said they had found a small bottle believed to be the source of the nerve agent Novichok that killed Dawn Sturgess and sickened Charlie Rowley.

At the beginning of 2017, one of Julian Assange's biggest media boosters traveled to the WikiLeaks founder's refuge inside the Ecuadorean Embassy in London and asked him where he got the leaks that shook up the U.S. presidential election only months earlier.

Pfc. Willard "Bud" Jenkins' fellow paratroopers last saw him floating downstream, a trail of blood streaming behind him. But that's not how Jenkins will be remembered.

The last time Donald Trump traveled to Scotland was in 2016, hours after the Brexit vote and shortly after he became the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. This time, his trip is likely to be less dramatic, as he spends the weekend out of the spotlight preparing for his high-stakes summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

President Donald Trump seems of two minds on nuclear weapons. He muses about eliminating them but also has called for a U.S. buildup and bragged about his nuclear "button."

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German police say a 26-year-old Afghan man has been shot dead outside a fitness club in the northern city of Hamburg.

Thousands of people are marching through the streets of Edinburgh to protest against President Donald Trump, who is staying in Scotland over the weekend.

If the restroom on your next flight seems a bit snug, don't assume you've picked up a few pounds. U.S. airlines increasingly are putting smaller lavatories on their planes – and the economics of the decision means they're probably here to stay.

Documents made public by the Justice Department show that Mercury LLC drafted messages for envoys to send to senior U.S. government officials that expressed support for a plan to eliminate Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska’s majority stake in an aluminum manufacturing giant sanctioned by Washington.

The 2010 oil spill, triggered by a blowout that killed 11 workers and toppled the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, "shook the company to its core." Since the blowout, BP has sold off $75 billion of assets to cover unprecedented government fines, private damage claims and legal bills. But BP has survived

President Donald Trump's persistence in pursuing friendly ties with Vladimir Putin has highlighted a growing disconnect within his administration over Russia policy.

France's military is getting a budget boost from President Emmanuel Macron as soldiers prepare to march through Paris on Bastille Day.

Two border patrol ships carrying 451 migrants neared Sicily on Saturday but the migrants' fate remained uncertain after Italy's hard-line interior minister insisted they should be sent to Malta or Libya instead.

Two soldiers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade attempting to fly home to the U.S. with a layover in Canada were recently denied boarding their flights at Venice Marco Polo Airport, because their military identification cards and travel orders weren’t sufficient.

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The purpose of Thursday’s exercise was to increase combat effectiveness and demonstrate resolve among the 17 allied and partner nations participating in the training known as Exercise Sea Breeze, now in its 18th iteration.

An alleged Islamic State group supporter who encouraged attacks on 4-year-old Prince George of Britain has been sentenced to life in prison with a minimum of 25 years.

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Twelve Russian intelligence officers hacked into the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton presidential campaign in the run-up to the 2016 election and released tens of thousands of stolen communications in a brazen effort by a foreign government to meddle in U.S. politics, according to a grand jury indictment announced Friday.

President Donald Trump on Friday paid tribute to the legacy of Winston Churchill who coined the phrase the "special relationship" to describe U.S.-British relations.

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If the United States tried lowering its defense spending to mirror Europe's, President Donald Trump could safely fund several of his key priorities — including the White House's infrastructure plan, a border wall with Mexico and a 15 percent corporate tax rate - and still have additional money left over.

In Vladimir Putin's push to build Russia's global influence, one of his most potent weapons is his own image.

From Montenegro and Serbia in the east and Slovenia in the west, Croatia's neighbors have been split over whether to support Croatia or France in the World Cup's final match Sunday, reflecting the persisting rifts stemming from the 1990s conflict.

Some 110,000 police officers are deploying across the nation for Bastille Day celebrations on Saturday, as World Cup fever takes over the country.

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Her game face on, Melania Trump dutifully tried her hand at lawn bowls during a solo outing Friday to a historic London veterans' retirement home on her first visit to Britain as America's first lady.

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Thousands crammed the streets of central London on Friday to vent their anger over Donald Trump's first official visit to Britain, blowing horns, waving banners and hoisting a bright orange effigy of the U.S. president on their shoulders.

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President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump arrived early Friday evening to the courtyard of Windsor Castle, where Queen Elizabeth II was awaiting them under a canopy on a dais.

Italian prosecutors on Friday investigated alleged threats by some of the 67 migrants against a tugboat crew who rescued them at sea off the Libyan coast.

A court in Germany ordered authorities Friday to bring back a former aide to Osama bin Laden — hours after he was deported to his native Tunisia on Friday.

Dawn Sturgess, 44, and Charlie Rowley, 45, were sickened on June 30 in a southwestern England town not far from Salisbury, where British authorities say a Russian ex-spy and his daughter were poisoned with Novichok in March.

France is beefing up its counterterrorism powers and creating new bodies to track radicalized inmates and better identify extremists at risk of turning to violence.

A Greek court agreed Friday to extradite to France a Russian cybercrime suspect who also is wanted on criminal charges in the United States and Russia.

Many Germans want U.S. troops to withdraw from their country, where nearly 35,000 American servicemembers are stationed, according to a new poll.

For the second time in two days, explosive ordnance disposal teams were called in Thursday to remove an unexploded, 250-pound WWII bomb from a construction site near Smith Barracks on U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz in Baumholder.

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Britain's Queen Elizabeth II has met every U.S. president since Dwight Eisenhower with the exception of Lyndon Johnson. President Donald Trump and his wife Melania are to meet with the queen Friday, and there are rules of etiquette for encounters with the queen. Chief among them: Don't get too affectionate.

President Donald Trump on Thursday did not rule out curtailing military exercises in the Baltics should the issue arise during his upcoming meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

President Donald Trump on Thursday forecast an unspecified "escalation" between the United States and Iran following his withdrawal from a landmark deal that provided sanctions relief for Tehran in exchange for curbs on its nuclear program.

U.S. President Donald Trump lobbed a verbal hand grenade into Theresa May's carefully constructed plans for Brexit, saying Thursday that the British leader had wrecked the country's exit from the European Union and likely "killed" chances of a free-trade deal with the United States.

President Donald Trump declared Thursday that NATO was “much stronger” than when the two-day summit of world leaders began, citing progress toward increased defense spending.

Spanish officials wanted him extradited to face charges of sedition, rebellion and misuse of public funds. But on Thursday, a German court ruled that although Puigdemont could be extradited, it could only be to face the lesser charge in a Spanish court.

While President Donald Trump's hectoring at the NATO summit alarmed many in the West, his message was mostly embraced Thursday along the alliance's eastern flank — the region that feels most threatened by an assertive Russia.

Greece moved to expel two Russian diplomats and to block two others from entering Thursday after authorities learned that clergy and other organizations allegedly received Russian money to oppose a deal to end Greece's longstanding name dispute with neighboring Macedonia, a Greek official said Thursday.

Italy's hard-line interior minister refused Thursday to let 67 migrants disembark from an Italian coast guard ship until an investigation determines whether any of them had violently threatened their rescuers to prevent being returned to Libya.

Top officials at the European Central Bank expressed confidence at their last policy meeting that the eurozone economy remains "broadly on track" but expressed concern that rising trade protectionism could dampen business confidence and blunt the recovery.

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Col. Jason T. Edwards assumed command of U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz from Col. Keith E. Igyarto in a ceremony held at Daenner Kaserne on Wednesday.

The State Department is warning Americans "to keep a low profile" and "be aware of your surroundings" this week in the U.K. during planned demonstrations against President Donald Trump.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said his country is offering to lead NATO's new military training mission in Iraq for the first year and stands ready to provide 250 troops plus helicopters for the effort.

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The steady drum of anti-German rhetoric from the United States, one of the country's traditionally closest friends, has people wondering whether to get ready for a messy breakup.

President Donald Trump, flanked by a stone-faced Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, also criticized a multibillion dollar energy deal between Moscow and Berlin that he says NATO “needs to look at.”

The 14 fighter jets are meant to replace the obsolete Soviet-made MiG-29 jets that Slovakia's air forces have used.

While Trump may be the first to inspire the flying of an inflatable orange baby over London, he is not the first U.S. president to trigger protests on British soil. Numerous presidents have prompted controversy in the past — largely because of their personalities and policies. And Brits have never shied away from expressing their feelings during presidential visits, often through very public displays.

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Actor George Clooney slammed his motorbike into an oncoming car that turned suddenly into his lane Tuesday and was thrown several yards in the air on the Italian island of Sardinia, according to video of the crash.

A German court on Wednesday found the main defendant in a high-profile neo-Nazi trial guilty over the killing of 10 people — most of them migrants — who were gunned down between 2000 and 2007 in a case that shocked Germany and prompted accusations of institutional racism in the country's security agencies.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Wednesday for talks focusing on Iranian presence in Syria — an issue that is expected to top the agenda of the upcoming U.S.-Russian summit.

Construction on the autobahn – known around the world for portions that lack any speed limit – has slowed traffic down in places to a limit of 60 kilometers per hour, or about 37 mph, on a 12-mile stretch of the A6 between Kaiserslautern and Landstuhl.