BRUSSELS: When plans for a summit between the European Union and the Arab League were first hatched last year, it was envisioned as the start of a new...
BRUSSELS: For Europe, already reeling from Britain’s decision to leave its 28-member club, Donald Trump’s election introduces a host of new uncertainties it...
BRUSSELS/PARIS: Outraged by Russia’s intensified airstrikes on rebels in Syria, the European Union is now less likely to ease sanctions on Moscow over...
BRUSSELS: In early March, Europe’s migration chief Dimitris Avramopoulos squelched through a muddy refugee camp on Greece’s border with Macedonia and peered...
BELGRADE/BRUSSELS: Need a Kalashnikov in Belgium? No problem, says “Nemac” the Serb; a few hundred euros will buy the gun and a place to stash it in a car or...
BEIRUT/MOSCOW: While the desperate flight of Syrians from their country’s war was dominating news bulletins this summer, yet another diplomatic push to end...
MOSCOW: A week after angering many in Russia by burning illegally imported Western food, authorities have started feeding Dutch flowers to the...
ST PETERSBURG, Russia: Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday he hoped Iran and world powers would reach a final agreement soon on Tehran's nuclear...
MOSCOW/WARSAW: A plan by Washington to station tanks and heavy weapons in NATO states on Russia's border would be the most aggressive U.S. act since the Cold...
MOSCOW: Russian and U.S. positions on Syria are getting closer, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday after several high-level contacts...
MOSCOW: Russian security forces killed the leader of an Islamist insurgency in the North Caucasus during a raid on a house in the Dagestan region, the...
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin Monday paved the way for long-overdue missile system deliveries to Iran and Moscow started an oil-for-goods swap with...
MOSCOW: Talks between representatives of the Syrian government and some mainstream members of the opposition ended in Moscow with no sign of progress towards...
MOSCOW: The Syrian government and some opposition figures will start a second round of talks in Moscow on Monday focusing on humanitarian issues, although a...
MOSCOW: It may have been the last note Boris Nemtsov ever wrote, a hurried scrawl in blue pen on a plain white sheet of A4 paper.A day before he was shot dead...
MOSCOW: The next meeting between some Syrian opposition figures and the Damascus government in Moscow will take place in about a month, Qadri Jamil, a...
MOSCOW: Representatives of Syrian President Bashar Assad and opposition figures agreed at talks Thursday to hold another round in Moscow, moderator Vitaly...
MOSCOW: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov urged the Syrian opposition and representatives of the Damascus government Wednesday to join forces to combat...
MOSCOW: The official exchange rate was still in the 60s, and the sign on the currency exchange kiosk’s door said there were U.S. dollars on sale at 80 rubles....
ANKARA/MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to Turkey on Monday will have trade and energy issues at its heart, but is not expected to bridge deep...
MOSCOW: Russia may restart gas supply to Ukraine as soon as next week if Kiev pays $2.2 billion worth of debt and pre-payments, gas export monopoly Gazprom...
DONETSK/DNIPROPETROVSK, Ukraine: Before fighting broke out in eastern Ukraine, Irina was a croupier in a casino who never dreamt of taking up arms. Now she is...
MOSCOW: Moscow called Sunday for a new “reset 2.0” in relations with Washington, saying the situation in Ukraine that had led to Western sanctions against...
MARIUPOL/DONETSK, Ukraine: Ukraine reinforced its defences at the port of Mariupol on the Sea of Azov on Thursday in anticipation of a rebel attack amid...
KIEV/DONETSK, Ukraine: Ukraine said its troops had taken more territory from pro-Russian rebels near the site where Malaysian flight MH17 was brought down, as...