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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez speaks during a media conference at an E.U. summit in Brussels on July 2, 2019. (Virginia Mayo/AP) ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin during a meeting in Moscow on Wednesday. (Gavriil Grigorov/AP) Listen 5 min Share ...
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at a news conference in Brussels on April 3. (Omar Havana/Getty...
As a form of protest, farmers unload potatoes outside the European Council building in Brussels on Tuesday. (Harry Nakos/AP) Listen 4...
Dmitry Muratov, then-editor of Novaya Gazeta, sits in Moscow City Court during an appeal of a ruling against the newspaper on Feb. 7, 2023. (AP) (AP) ...
Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Guyana President Irfaan Ali at an emergency meeting on Haiti in Kingston, Jamaica, on Monday. (Andrew...
French President Emmanuel Macron, next to Germany Chancellor Olaf Scholz, left, speaks at a conference on Ukraine in Paris on Feb. 26. (Gonzalo...
Opinion France’s lionized, and reviled, guillotine terminator By Lee Hockstader Columnist, European Affairs | Follow...
The Olympic flag is seen at the Élysée Palace on Monday in Paris. (Aurelien Morissard/AP) Listen 5 min Share ...
A journalist works in a newsroom of TV Rain in Moscow in 2021. (Denis Kaminev/AP) Listen 4 min Share Comment on this...
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo at the Hotel des Invalides on Jan. 5. (Ludovic Marin/AFP/Getty Images) Listen 5 min Share ...
Firefighters work in a destroyed building hit by recent shelling in a residential area in Donetsk, Russian-controlled Ukraine, Jan. 29. (AFP via Getty...
British soldiers on a Jackal 2 high-mobility weapons platform on Jan. 26 near Oakham, England. (Leon Neal/Getty Images) Listen 5 min ...
Prime Minister Mark Rutte of the Netherlands during a session at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 17. (Fabrice...
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk speaks in Gdansk on Jan. 13. (Lukasz Glowala/REUTERS) Listen 4 min Share Comment...
Newly appointed French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal arrives for his first weekly cabinet meeting at the Élysée Palace in Paris on Friday following a...
Protesters urge the German government to supply Ukraine with Taurus missiles in Berlin on Saturday. (Omer Messinger/Getty Images) ...
French President Emmanuel Macron is seen on a television screen during an interview on Dec. 20. (Ludovic Marin/AFP/Getty Images) Listen...
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Brussels on Dec. 14. (Virginia Mayo/AP) Listen 5 min Share Comment on this...
A boat carrying migrants arrives on the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, in southern Italy, on Sept. 16. (Ciro Fusco/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock) ...
A worker checks Krispy Kreme doughnuts during a media preview before the opening of the first Krispy Kreme restaurant in Paris. (Dimitar...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. (Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock) Listen 4 min Share ...
Geert Wilders, leader of the far-right Freedom Party, in The Hague on Nov. 24. (Peter Dejong/AP) Listen 5 min Share ...
Members of the 436th Aerial Port Squadron use a forklift to move 155mm shells ultimately bound for Ukraine in April 2022 at Dover Air Force Base in...
Protesters hold signs reading in Polish "women's strike" as they block a crossing in downtown Warsaw on Nov. 9, 2020, in the 12th straight day of...
A military parade in Warsaw on Aug. 15 celebrated Polish Army Day, commemorating the 1920 battle in which Polish troops defeated advancing Bolshevik...
Students at the University of Barcelona protest on Tuesday Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's deal to provide amnesty for supporters of Catalan's illegal...
Opposition leader Donald Tusk speaks at his party's headquarters in Warsaw on Oct. 15 after the arrival of the first exit poll results in Poland's...
Russian President Vladimir Putin visits Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on Oct. 12. (Pavel Bednyakov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP) Listen...
A gravedigger pauses while preparing the ground for a funeral at a cemetery on April 20, 2022, in Irpin, Ukraine. The first several rows contain the...
Military vehicles drive past damaged buildings on Oct. 21 in in Kupyansk, Ukraine. (Ed Ram/For The Washington Post) Listen 5 min ...
People fleeing gang violence take shelter at a sports arena in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Sept. 1. (Ralph Tedy Erol/Reuters) Listen 5...
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at a White House news conference in February 2022. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post) Listen 5 min ...
Opinion Why Paris is bugging out over ‘punaises de lit’ By Lee Hockstader Columnist, European Affairs October 11, 2023...
Election campaign posters in Bitterfeld-Wolfen, Germany, on Sept. 30. (Clemens Bilan/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock) Listen 6 min ...
Lt. Gen. Andreas Marlow, head of the German Elements MN Corps/Basic Military Organization at Strausberg, speaks next to a Leopard 1A5 main battle tank...