Britain has granted diplomatic recognition to Libya's opposition ruling council while the group's leadership withdrew an offer for leader Moammar Gadhafi to stay in the country if he ceded power.
Norway's twin terror attacks suspect Anders Behring Breivik, left, sits in an armored police vehicle after leaving the courthouse following a hearing in Oslo, July 25, 2011 where he pleaded not guilty to one of the deadliest modern mass killings in peacetime.
As many as 150,000 Norwegians marched through Oslo Monday to pay tribute to the 76 people killed by an ultranationalist in gun and bomb attacks Friday.
British Prime Minister David Cameron will cut short a trip to Africa, returning early to Britain in order to deal with a phone-hacking scandal surrounding one of the world’s largest media groups. The crisis has been rapidly unfolding and escalating.
Last year, China replaced Germany as Russia’s largest trading partner. Now, as Russian gas and oil pipelines increasingly point East, the Kremlin wants to convert a backwater city on the Trans-Siberian Railway into Asia’s door to Russia.
The Greek coast guard has intercepted the only boat of a planned flotilla of pro-Palestinian activists that had eluded detection.
The News International company says it is shutting down the British tabloid newspaper News of the World following a widespread phone-hacking scandal in which victims range from celebrities to murder victims.
Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron made an unannounced stop in Afghanistan Tuesday. The visit comes at a time when some NATO troops and top leaders are beginning to prepare to leave the country. The NATO mission in Afghanistan says four of its service members died in two separate attacks in the east as Cameron visited, Kabul, and pledged to increase British aid to the country.
Marking a shift in its position, Turkey is putting its full weight behind the Libyan opposition, promising $200 million and calling for Libyan government leader Colonel Moammar Gadhafi to go. A leader of the Libyan opposition is due to hold talks Wednesday in Ankara.
Mikhail Margelov, the Kremlin's Mideast envoy, left, welcomes a Syrian opposition delegation led by Washington-based rights activist Radwan Ziadeh, second from left, 28 June 2011.
Police in Athens have fired tear gas on angry protesters in Athens. The street clashes on Tuesday came on the first day of a 48-hour general strike. These are just the latest episodes in an ongoing campaign by Greek citizens against their government’s austerity measures.
Containers loaded with wreckage of the Air France Airbus A330, which dove into the sea off the coast of Brazil in 2009, arrive at the General Directorate for Armament in Toulouse Center, June 16, 2011.
French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe says Paris will move ahead with efforts to organize a Mideast peace conference in coming weeks despite reservations expressed by the U.S. and Israel.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has agreed to push for European Union financial assistance for Spanish farmers whose export income dropped sharply after German officials erroneously blamed them for causing the deadly outbreak of E. coli bacteria.
The former military commander of the Bosnian Serbs, Ratko Mladic, made his first public appearance at the war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia after 16 years as a fugitive. During his arraignment, he refused to plead to the 11 counts against him - including genocide, extermination and murder.
European and World Health Organization scientists say a deadly outbreak of E. coli bacteria that has killed 18 people is a rare and virulent strain of the bacteria. The latest victim died Wednesday night in Germany.
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