Europe. Page 26

Defense budgets set to dominate yet another NATO summit

BRUSSELS — Despite pleas to set aside bickering over military spending so the issue doesn’t dominate a third NATO summit in a row, the United States i...
13:14 2 December 2021

NATO under friendly fire as leaders ready for London summit

BRUSSELS — NATO leaders will gather in London on Tuesday as the world’s biggest military alliance, marking its 70th birthday, battles with one of the ...
13:07 2 December 2021

UK probes Google’s Looker purchase over competition concerns

LONDON — Britain’s competition watchdog says it’s investigating Google’s purchase of cloud data analytics company Looker Data Sciences, adding to the ...
12:53 2 December 2021

UN chief urges countries not to surrender on climate fight

MADRID — U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres urged countries Monday not to give up in the fight against climate change, as representatives from ne...
11:03 2 December 2021

Germany: Merkel’s party rejects full overhaul of coalition

BERLIN — Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party is rejecting a root-and-branch renegotiation of the agreement underpinning Germany’s government after the ju...
9:32 2 December 2021

France pays homage to 13 soldiers killed in Mali air crash

PARIS — In its biggest military funeral in decades, France is honoring 13 soldiers killed when their helicopters collided over Mali while on a mission...
9:17 2 December 2021

Rock tragedy: Music superstars, small suburb forever linked

FINNEYTOWN, Ohio — Tragedy four decades ago linked the British rock band The Who to a small suburban city in Ohio.
6:22 2 December 2021

Malta leader to resign amid protests over reporter’s death

VALLETTA, Malta — Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat told the nation Sunday night that he would resign in January, following pressure from angry cit...
22:13 1 December 2021

London extremist attack takes center stage in UK campaign

LONDON — Britain’s political leaders sparred Sunday over who is responsible for the early release of a convicted extremist who launched a stabbing att...
18:13 1 December 2021

London attack victims took part in program with prisoners

LONDON — Three of the five people who were killed or wounded in the London stabbing attack were former Cambridge University students or staff members ...
17:16 1 December 2021

Pope says Nativity scenes should go in town squares, schools

GRECCIO, Italy — Pope Francis on Sunday hailed Nativity scenes as “simple and admirable” signs of Christian faith and encouraged their placement in wo...
17:11 1 December 2021

New EU leaders take office vowing to tackle climate change

BRUSSELS — A new team of leaders took office at the helm of the European Union on Sunday, pledging to put the fight against climate change at the top ...
15:55 1 December 2021

Conductor Mariss Jansons dies at 76; led top orchestras

FRANKFURT, Germany — Latvian-born conductor Mariss Jansons, who led top classical ensembles including the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and the Royal ...
14:42 1 December 2021

Hong Kong pro-democracy rally cut short by police tear gas

HONG KONG — Thousands took to Hong Kong’s streets Sunday in a new wave of pro-democracy protests, but police fired tear gas after some demonstrators h...
12:30 1 December 2021

Warming toll: 1 degree hotter, trillions of tons of ice gone

Since leaders first started talking about tackling the problem of climate change, the world has spewed more heat-trapping gases, gotten hotter and suf...
10:05 1 December 2021

Albania calls for international help to recover from quake

TIRANA, Albania — Albania’s prime minister is calling on the international community for financial aid and expert assistance to help the country recov...
9:44 1 December 2021

Maltese prosecutors charge businessman in reporter’s killing

VALLETTA, Malta — Maltese prosecutors on Saturday charged a prominent local businessman as being an accomplice to the murder of anti-corruption journa...
3:00 1 December 2021

Londoners fought back to curtail carnage in bridge attack

LONDON — Even in times of shared, senseless tragedy, an uplifting moment sometimes emerges.
0:47 1 December 2021

Londoners a reminder of how ordinary people can fight back

The people who used a fire extinguisher and even a 5-foot (1.5 meter) narwhal tusk Friday to fight back against an attacker who stabbed two people to ...
0:32 1 December 2021

Malta prosecutors charge local businessman with being accomplice in 2017 car bomb killing of anti-corruption journalist

VALLETTA, Malta — Malta prosecutors charge local businessman with being accomplice in 2017 car bomb killing of anti-corruption journalist.
19:50 30 November 2021

Dutch police arrest suspect in stabbing of 3 teens

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Dutch police arrested a 35-year-old homeless man Saturday on suspicion of stabbing three teens on a street in The Hague that ...
17:38 30 November 2021

Liverpool opens up 11-point lead over Man City in EPL

Liverpool’s march to a first English league championship in 30 years is turning into a procession.
17:16 30 November 2021

The Latest: Merkel’s partners choose left-leaning leadership

BERLIN — The Latest on leadership of Germany’s Social Democrats (all times local):
17:15 30 November 2021

Science warnings, US retreat add urgency to UN climate talks

MADRID — Mass protests, a last-minute venue change and talk of climate tipping points are adding some unplanned drama to this year’s international tal...
16:44 30 November 2021

Focus on early release of terror convict in London stabbings

LONDON — UK counterterrorism police on Saturday searched for clues into how a man imprisoned for terrorism offenses before his release last year manag...
16:33 30 November 2021

Albania’s search for quake victims ends; death toll up to 51

TIRANA, Albania — The search and rescue operation for earthquake survivors in Albania has ended, the prime minister said Saturday, with the death toll...
13:51 30 November 2021

Vietnam receives last of 39 remains of trafficking victims

DO THANH, Vietnam — The last remains of the 39 Vietnamese who died while being smuggled in a truck to England last month were repatriated to their hom...
9:48 30 November 2021

UK police: Bridge attacker had been jailed for terror crimes

LONDON — A man wearing a fake explosive vest stabbed several people Friday in London, killing two in what police are treating as a terrorist attack be...
1:14 30 November 2021

The Latest: Police say 3 minors injured in Hague stabbing

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The Latest on stabbings in The Hague (all times local):
22:17 29 November 2021

France summons Turkish envoy over Erdogan jab at Macron

PARIS — The French government summoned the Turkish ambassador Friday to seek explanations after his president described French President Emmanuel Macr...
21:30 29 November 2021