Snowden unsuccessfully applied for asylum in France in 2013 under Macron's predecessor, Francois Hollande. He has also sought asylum in several other countries.

Britain's Supreme Court this week will rule on whether Johnson overstepped the law when he shut the legislature for a crucial five-week period.

Matteo Salvini is seeking to whip up his base in opposition to the 5-Star-Democratic Party government that took office last week, depriving Salvini of his bully pulpit as Italy's hard-line anti-migrant interior minister.

Russian authorities hope to prove that, among Joseph Stalin's victims in Sandarmokh, Soviet soldiers taken captive and shot by the Finnish army during World War II are also buried.

Former Prime Minister David Cameron has broken his silence on Brexit, confessing in new memoirs that he is "truly sorry" for the chaos and rancor that has engulfed Britain after it voted to leave the European Union three years ago. "I failed," Cameron concedes in his book, "For the Record."

Thieves have stolen a unique solid gold toilet worth up to 1 million pounds ($1.25 million) from the birthplace of British wartime leader Winston Churchill.

Italy's new government took a step back Saturday from a closed-port policy that had become a hallmark of the country's anti-migrant stance, allowing a Mediterranean humanitarian rescue vessel to come ashore with 82 people aboard.

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Warsaw is easy to navigate, with fewer crowds than some of its more famous European counterparts. It offers a wealth of interesting history and architecture, not to mention more bang for your buck when shopping with the Polish zloty.

Spc. Marlon Brumfield, a Stryker maintainer with the Army’s 2nd Cavalry Regiment, was shot to death while on home leave in the U.S., officials said.

Kevin Huckins found the ID tag two years ago in the woods near Eynsham Hall, which served as a rest and recuperation center for U.S. Army Air Forces personnel during World War II.

The first contingent of U.S. rocket artillery vehicles began arriving in Europe on Wednesday to outfit a unique American brigade on the Continent.

A routine training flight was anything but when two U.S. fighter jets came close to colliding with a pair of parachutists over southern England earlier this year, a report by a British air safety board says.

Serbia will take delivery of nine Chengdu Pterodactyl-1 drones within six months, with a possible follow-on order of 15 more, media reports in Belgrade said.

A negotiating team from the Taliban arrived Friday in Russia, a representative told The Associated Press, just days after U.S. President Donald Trump declared dead a deal with the insurgent group in Afghanistan.

When people were asked who their country should side with in the event of conflict between the U.S. and Russia, majorities in all but one country said it would be best to not pick sides.

Troops and their families are wondering when they will get a taste of the fast-food chicken sandwich that last month launched the “chicken sandwich wars” on social media and drew mouth-watering reviews.

Operators of several lodging facilities used for official Defense Department travel are still adjusting their room rates less than a month before the military stops receiving taxpayer dollars to sustain the accommodations.

The top U.S. general for NATO said Friday that he expects increased violence in Afghanistan in the lead-up to the election later this month, adding that allies will make necessary adjustments to military operations there to protect the vote.

A French court found the only daughter of Saudi Arabia's King Salman guilty of complicity in violence Thursday for ordering her bodyguard to detain and strike a plumber for taking photos at the Saudi royal family's apartment in Paris.

New vehicle-mounted communications gear allows soldiers at the frontlines to keep vital communications channels open and gives them more room to carry supplies, servicemembers taking part in Exercise Saber Junction said Friday.

The House Oversight Committee has been investigating an uptick in stays by the military at the Trump Turnberry hotel to determine whether the president has improperly directed crews to stay at his family-owned property.

Units from Texas, Georgia and New York are among those deploying, according to the Army. The announcement comes as news of a potential agreement with the Taliban could mean a reduction of U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

Rescue workers saved thousands of people from rising waters Friday as record rainfall pounded southeastern Spain, a deluge that authorities said killed at least four people and closed down airports, trains, roads and schools.

Plans to replace or renovate nine Defense Department schools — most of them overseas — have been shelved under the Pentagon’s move to divert $3.6 billion in military construction funds to pay for part of President Donald Trump’s border wall.

"Desperate Housewives" star Felicity Huffman was sentenced Friday to 14 days in prison for paying $15,000 to rig her daughter's SAT scores, tearfully apologizing to the teenager for not trusting her to get into college on her own.

Unnamed security sources in Berlin said an international compound was “not safe anymore” after last week’s attack, according to news magazine Der Spiegel.

A ferry crew found a boat covered in goose barnacles in Galway Bay, off the coast of Ireland. Turns out the mysterious boat was a U.S. Navy test vessel that was lost off the coast of Norfolk, Virginia, a year ago.

Months after Washington and Warsaw agreed to boost the number of American troops in Poland, questions remain about where they will come from, how many will eventually arrive and how long they will live in conditions that remind them of combat deployments.

Hungary's prime minister said Friday that Western countries in the European Union are suffering from "enlargement fatigue" and using newer members as a scapegoat for their problems.

A district in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, decided Thursday to remove the statue of a Soviet World War II commander from its site, a move that angered Russia.

An intergovernmental coalition hosted a presentation Thursday about a new U.S. foreign aid initiative intended to help targeted European countries withstand Kremlin interference.

Dozens of migrants on a rescue ship are waiting for a European country to give them permission to disembark. They pass their time doing laundry or playing chess with plastic bottle caps. Sometimes they sing and dance.

Ukraine's president said Friday that the United States hasn't only released $250 million in military aid to his country but will also extend an additional $140 million.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker will hold talks next week to try to break the Brexit impasse as both sides seek to avert what could be a disastrous "no-deal" departure.

The Ukrainian president's envoy for peace talks with Russia-backed separatists expressed concern Friday that the leaders of France and Germany will push Ukraine to make unacceptable concessions to Russia.

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If there were clouds over the Frankfurt Motor Show two years ago, there could be a storm brewing over this year’s edition, which opens at the city’s fairgrounds this week.

The Trump administration has released $250 million in military aid to Ukraine that had been held up despite criticism that the money was desperately needed to deter Russian aggression and territorial expansion.

The 494th Fighter Squadron received the 66-year-old trophy, a servicewide award sponsored by defense contractor Raytheon, for its overall performance and in recognition of its six-month deployment to the Middle East last year.

A pre-dawn explosion at an army munitions depot in breakaway northern Cyprus shattered window panes and slightly injured 12 people while fires ignited by the blast were brought under control, officials said Thursday.

Lockheed Martin has received State Department approval to sell 32 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters to the Polish military in an estimated $6.5 billion order, the Pentagon announced Wednesday.

The Metropolitan Police force says three men and two women, aged between their 20s and their 50s, were arrested in London "on suspicion of conspiracy to commit a public nuisance."

Reps. Elijah Cummings and Jamie Raskin, both Maryland Democrats, threatened to subpoena Pentagon records related trips in which crews have stayed at Trump’s Turnberry resort during flights from the Middle East to the United States.

The decision comes as central banks around the world are lowering rates to support slowing trade and growth. Those moves come despite questions over how much more good central banks can do without help from other policies such as government spending and pro-business reforms.

Tech giant Google said Thursday it has paid over one billion dollars to French authorities to settle a years-long dispute over allegations of tax fraud.

A damaged water line that shut down services to two base schools and a day care center at Sembach on Wednesday has been repaired, officials said, but those facilities will remain closed through Thursday while water samples in the line are tested.

The movers’ involvement in the break-in has prompted Americans to post their concerns in social media groups for expats in and around military installations in Germany.

Base opened in 1944 in preparation for the D-Day landings and has been home to a number of functions over the decades.

Analysis

He may be A spy. But is he THE spy? That's the question bedeviling news organizations reporting on a story about the U.S. extracting a Russian official who provided information about Kremlin interference in the 2016 presidential election.

A former French army bathhouse at Baumholder, Germany, now serves as a place for U.S. soldiers and their families to unwind and connect while off duty after the USO returned to a hilly outpost northwest of Ramstein Air Base for the first time in more than a decade.

Staff Sgt. Conrad Robinson followed one of his grandfathers into the Army, but what he shared with few colleagues before he died was that his other one was “the Genius" of soul music, Ray Charles.

The British government insisted Thursday that its forecast of food and medicine shortages, gridlock at ports and riots in the streets after a no-deal Brexit is an avoidable worst-case scenario, as Prime Minister Boris Johnson denied misleading Queen Elizabeth II about his reasons for suspending Parliament.

Russia warned Europe’s human rights tribunal it risks opening a “Pandora’s Box” of politically motivated cases if it accepts Ukraine’s claims that Moscow-led forces committed atrocities in the Crimea.

U.S. backing of NATO is at an all-time high, but there is less support for basing troops in Europe than in the Pacific or Middle East, according to a survey by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.

The reservists said they lawfully received dual housing allowances — one for their homes of record and one for off-base housing they were ordered to live in while in Europe. The dual allowance payments ended once the soldiers were accused of receiving payments fraudulently.

A group of 34 migrants that included a pregnant woman and a small child safely moved during a thunderstorm from a charity-operated sailboat responsible for their rescue to a larger humanitarian ship in the Mediterranean Sea north of Libya.

For the first time since 2006, the U.S. sent NBA players to a major international tournament and won't win gold.

A panel of three Scottish judges ruled Wednesday morning that Boris Johnson’s decision to suspend Parliament was illegal, escalating an already passionate debate over whether the British prime minister respects the rule of law and throwing into even greater doubt his plans for Brexit.

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More than 200 soldiers, veterans and family members gathered for a run in Ansbach on Friday to remember the 18 lives lost in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan 14 years ago.

Three Lithuanian units swept the top spots in this year’s International Best Squad Competition, outperforming 13 other teams that included a U.S. Army contingent, officials said Friday.

A Dutch doctor was acquitted Wednesday in a landmark trial that prosecutors and physicians hope will help clarify how the country's 2002 euthanasia law can be applied to people with severe dementia.

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The European Central Bank appears to be preparing a new shot of stimulus to prop up the economy, amid broader questions about whether central banks like the ECB and the U.S. Federal Reserve can re-energize global growth on their own.

French police are appealing for victims and witnesses to come forward to aid their probe into Jeffrey Epstein and anyone else involved in the disgraced financier's alleged sexual exploitation of women and girls.

The Air Force has launched a review of its selection of lodging accommodations amid heightened scrutiny of a decision to place a crew at the Trump Turnberry resort in Scotland, which it acknowledged Sunday "might be allowable but not advisable."

The Lithuanian capital is on edge over the imminent opening of a nuclear-power facility just 25 miles away in Belarus. Following a string of incidents during construction-and attempts to conceal them-many deem the Russian-built Astravets plant unsafe.

Members of Bosnia's embattled LGBT community have complained they face widespread harassment and attacks that are rarely prosecuted.

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Vice President Mike Pence arrived in Iceland on Wednesday for a visit in which he plans to highlight the growing strategic importance of the Arctic, as well as “NATO’s efforts to counter Russian aggression” and “opportunities to expand mutual trade and investment,” the White House said as it announced the visit.

Defense Secretary Mark Esper said he is urging European allies to pick up the tab for military construction projects in their countries defunded by the Pentagon to pay for President Donald Trump's border wall.

Politico first reported that the military transport that took off from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage in March spent the night at the Turnberry resort, about 50 miles outside Glasgow.The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has opened an investigation into the matter.

A U.S.-based Jewish foundation honored Polish gentiles who rescued Jews during the Holocaust, a number that grows smaller each year, with U.S. and Israeli diplomats also paying their respects at the event Sunday in Warsaw to the elderly Poles who put their lives in danger to save others.

Thirty-five from each side were involved in the handovers, which come less than four months after Ukraine's new president, Volodymyr Zelensky, took office promising to open fresh channels of dialogue with Moscow.

Americans are being urged by U.S. military officials to drink responsibly and ‘have a plan’ if they attend what’s been billed as the world’s biggest wine festival in Bad Duerkheim, Germany.

The local elections that sparked a summer of protest in Moscow and St. Petersburg were finally held Sunday, and from one end of Russia to the other, candidates friendly to the Kremlin for the most part romped to victory — because they faced almost no real opposition.

The Economy Ministry said Friday production was 0.6% lower than the previous month, following a 1.1% drop in June. That followed separate data showing factory orders fell 2.7% in July.

Tens of thousands of protesters piled once again onto the streets of the Algerian capital and other cities Friday with many rejecting the army chief's call for presidential elections before the end of the year.

Europe's aviation safety agency, which is conducting its own independent review of Boeing's grounded 737 MAX, is not satisfied with a key detail of Boeing's fix to the jet. It wants Boeing to do more to improve the integrity of the sensors that failed on the two fatal crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia, killing 346 people.

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence's arrival in Iceland with military jets and armed personnel set eyes popping Wednesday in a nation consistently ranked as the world's most peaceful.

Analysis

Last March, after the attempt to poison the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal in Salisbury, England, it took the British government only a week to accuse Russia of being responsible; by the 10th day after the crime, it was already expelling Russian diplomats. Now, the same length of time after a very similar event in Berlin, the German government is reacting very differently.

The House Oversight Committee is investigating why a financially struggling airport near a Trump-owned golf course in Scotland has seen an uptick in expenditures by the U.S. military since President Donald Trump took office.

"The situation is deteriorating in Europe when it comes to xenophobia and racism," Swedish sailor Charlie Andreasson said. "So that's why I came back."

Amber Rudd says "there is no evidence of a deal. There are no formal negotiations taking place."

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Eman was born in the Netherlands and was part of an underground resistance following Nazi Germany's 1940 invasion of the northern European nation. She died Tuesday in Grand Rapids at age 99.

A group promoting ties between Germany and the Caucasus says it warned German authorities years ago about Russian threats against a Georgian man who was shot dead in broad daylight in the heart of Berlin last month.

It's a scene many Muscovites have grown used to seeing this summer as a new wave of anti-government demonstrations gripped the Russian capital: Two masked, heavily clad riot policemen drag away a shrieking teenager as the protesters around them try to free her.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Friday that the rights and freedoms of Hong Kong residents should be protected, adding that a solution to the Chinese city's political crisis can only be achieved through dialogue and that violence should be avoided.

Speaking at a government-organized conference on demography, Prime Minister Viktor Orban also said that an upturn in Hungary's — and possibly Europe's — low birth rates may be achieved when having children becomes economically more beneficial to families than not having them.

The U.S. Army expects to know soon what changes must be made at ranges in Europe to meet new, more demanding marksmanship training requirements for soldiers, service officials said.

Britain's House of Lords has approved a bill designed to prevent the country leaving the European Union next month without a divorce agreement.

Anti-government protesters in Russia are increasingly relying on an encrypted and officially banned messaging app to pass on information in critical situations, from dodging riot police to giving those arrested a line to the outside.

Analysis

World War II ended 74 years ago. But even in the 21st century, the lasting effects endure, both psychological and material. After all, the war took more than 60 million lives, redrew the map of Europe and ended with the Soviet Union and the United States locked in a Cold War of nuclear superpowers.

The U.S. should start by declassifying intelligence for public release more quickly to counter denials from Moscow, particularly related to destabilizing disinformation campaigns, the report said.