A consortium of international human rights organizations is calling for Belarus not to execute a German citizen recently condemned to death after being convicted of terrorism, extremism and mercenary activities. Rico Krieger, a medical worker with the German Red Cross, was convicted and sentenced in late June in a secret trial.
Lithuania’s military expansion and an influx of more foreign troops could mean relocation for small-town residents, as the NATO country makes way for the buildup, a top Lithuanian official said.
Slovakia has received the first two of the 14 new F-16 military jets from the United States whose delivery was pushed back two years due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Joe Biden’s decision to end his campaign for reelection brings a new element of uncertainty for Ukraine. Questions about the future of American support are compounding the pain of its exhausting war against Russia’s invasion.
Access to many registration services for personal vehicles in the largest overseas U.S. military community has grown so scarce that the process for booking time slots is evoking references to “The Hunger Games.”
Estonia’s president has formally appointed a new government after lawmakers in the Baltic country gave the green light to Prime Minister-designate Kristen Michal’s three-party coalition Cabinet. The Cabinet will focus on improving Estonia’s ailing state finances, by raising income tax, value added tax and the excise tax on on alcohol, tobacco and gasoline.
European planemaker Airbus plans to show off its newest passenger jet with daily flight demonstrations during one of the world’s biggest aviation trade fairs. But an ongoing safety and manufacturing crisis has rival Boeing keeping a lower profile at the Farnborough International Air Show, which kicks off Monday in England.
Cyprus has put on display artifacts — some of them thousands of years old — that were returned after a Turkish art dealer looted them from the ethnically divided island nation decades ago.
Croatian police say a suspected gunman in a mass shooting in a nursing home in Croatia is facing 11 criminal charges after he was accused of killing six people, including his own mother, and wounding as many more.
Rosettes were placed Friday beside the names of Army Pfc. Harry Hosfelt and Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Allan Knepper at the Sicily-Rome American Cemetery’s Wall of the Missing in the Italian town of Nettuno.
Ukraine’s largest music festival struck a different chord this year. Gone were the international headliners, the massive performance halls and the hundreds of thousands of visitors. Instead, the country’s most beloved local artists graced the Atlas Festival stage in a shopping mall parking lot
A Russian court says it has convicted Alsu Kurmasheva, a Russian-American journalist for the U.S. government-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, of spreading false information about the Russian military and sentenced her to 6½ years in prison following a secret trial.
Two U.S. Air Force long-range bombers that had a close encounter over the weekend with Russian fighters over the Barents Sea landed at an allied base near the Black Sea hours later, according to the service.
A man died after being struck by lightning near the summit of Germany’s highest peak, police said Monday.
World leaders expressed respect and admiration for President Biden on Sunday after he announced he was ending his reelection campaign.
Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the U.S. presidential race injects greater uncertainty into the world at a time when Western leaders are grappling with wars in Ukraine and Gaza, a more assertive China in Asia and the rise of the far-right in Europe.
Donald Trump and his allies confronted a new electoral landscape as President Biden ended his bid for reelection, a move that upended a period of steady political gains for the Republican nominee and forced his campaign to regroup with a new blueprint less than four months before the election.
Historians and political advisers say history will be kinder to President Joe Biden than voters have been. A former senior adviser to President Barack Obama said Biden’s legacy will include many legislative achievements, but above all, he will be remembered as the president who defeated Donald Trump.
France’s vast police and military operation is in large part because the July 26-Aug. 11 Games face unprecedented security challenges. The city has repeatedly suffered deadly extremist attacks and international tensions are high because of the wars in Ukraine and Gaza.