American screen icon Clint Eastwood was made a commander in France's prestigious Legion of Honor on Friday. ...more

November 14, 2009

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other EU leaders flatly rejected a new multibillion-dollar bailout for eastern Europe on Sunday, suggesting that additional aid be given to struggling nations on a case-by-case basis. ...more

March 2, 2009

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Israeli tanks and infantry pushed into Gaza after nightfall Saturday, launching a much anticipated ground offensive in a widening war on Gaza's Hamas rulers. ...more

January 3, 2009

Israel allowed several hundred Palestinians with foreign passports to flee Gaza on Friday, even as its warplanes bombed a mosque it said was used to store weapons and destroyed homes of more than a dozen Hamas operatives. ...more

January 3, 2009

President-elect Barack Obama has won another contest: He's been named Time magazine's "Person of the Year" for 2008. ...more

December 17, 2008

Leaders from Asia and Europe on Saturday called for new rules and stronger regulation of the global monetary and financial system at the close of a two-day summit in Beijing as China assumed a new leadership role in the crisis. ...more

October 26, 2008

and increasingly flimsy - notion must be altogether abandoned: the idea that the U.N. is the sine qua non of legitimate action in the international arena. ...more

October 5, 2008

Pope Benedict XVI encouraged a greater role for religion in European society but cautioned against fanaticism as he met Friday with political, Jewish and Muslim leaders in his first papal visit to France. ...more

September 13, 2008

President Dmitry Medvedev declared Saturday that "Russia is a nation to be reckoned with" after its conflict with Georgia, again putting the West on notice that Moscow is prepared to use its military and economic might. ...more

September 7, 2008

European Union leaders seeking to punish Russia for invading Georgia face limited options and are likely to choose diplomatic pressure to isolate Moscow at their summit today. ...more

September 1, 2008