Europe

Ukraine opens new nuclear waste site at Chernobyl

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KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine's president on Monday unveiled a new nuclear waste repository at Chernobyl, the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster that...

Albania: Preliminary poll results show Socialists ahead

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<p>TIRANA, Albania &mdash; Preliminary results on Monday showed the ruling Socialist Party ahead in Albania’s parliamentary election.</p> ...

Swiss indict 3 over scheme to avert fees on CO2 emissions

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GENEVA — Swiss prosecutors announced a criminal indictment Monday against a former official with the federal roads office and two co-conspirators over an alleged...

UK leader denies saying 1000s of bodies better than lockdown

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<p>LONDON &mdash; British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday denied a press report which quoted him as allegedly saying he would rather see “bodies...

Virus wave, lack of parts hold back German business optimism

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FRANKFURT, Germany — A closely watched indicator of German business outlooks barely rose in April as the third wave of coronavirus infections held back...

France’s Macron presses Putin over Navalny, Ukraine

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<p>PARIS &mdash; French President Emmanuel Macron urged Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday to cool tensions with Ukraine, and expressed “grave concern” about the...

German held after racist attack on Syrian caught on video

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BERLIN — A 39-year-old German man has been arrested in connection with a racist attack on a teenage refugee in the eastern city of...

108 on trial in Turkey for 2014 Kobani protests

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<p>ISTANBUL &mdash; More than 100 people linked to a pro-Kurdish party are to go on trial Monday in Turkey’s capital, Ankara, for their alleged...

Mexico’s Zapatistas to visit Spain 500 years after conquest

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ALTAMIRANO, Mexico — The Indigenous rebels of the Zapatista movement said Monday that they are planning to send a delegation by canoes on a...

Turks demonstrate against Biden’s Armenian genocide decision

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<p>ISTANBUL &mdash; A small group of Turkish protestors gathered outside the American consulate in Istanbul Monday to protest U.S. President Joe Biden’s decision to...