Left Out of Ukraine Talks, Europe Races to Organize a Response
While American officials prepared on Sunday for the start of talks with Russia over ending the war in Ukraine, European leade...
Trump’s Ambition to Redraw the World Map Ignores Those Affected Most
Western allies of the United States gathered in Munich this past week, anxious, adrift and despairing in the face of Presiden...
Putin Has Long Wanted More Power in Europe. Trump Could Grant It.
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia shocked the audience at the annual security conference in Munich in 2007 by demanding ...
A Pro-Ukraine Activist Is Accused by Slovakia’s Leader of Trying to Topple Him
Hostile to Russia ever since Soviet tanks appeared near her childhood home in 1968 in what was then Czechoslovakia, the now g...
Ukraine Rejects U.S. Demand for Half of Its Mineral Resources
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, during a closed-door meeting on Wednesday, rejected an offer by the Trump administra...
British Couple on World Motorcycle Tour Is Detained in Iran
A British couple who had been on a motorcycle tour around the world were detained in Iran, Britain’s foreign office said on S...
Vance and Musk Attack German Consensus on Nazis and Speech
The American vice president visited a concentration camp on Thursday afternoon. He laid a wreath at the foot of a statue, mad...
Alice Weidel, Germany’s most vilified—and powerful—female politician
LAST WEEKEND thousands of Germans took to the streets—again—to protest against the hard-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) p...
A Quick, Quiet Trip to Belarus Signals a Turn in U.S. Policy
The senior American diplomat slipped quietly into Belarus, a police state run by a strongman reviled for decades in the West,...
Even in Death, the Kremlin Views Navalny as an Enduring Threat
Six months after the opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny died in a Russian prison above the Arctic Circle, Konstantin A. K...