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Europe's $100 Billion Fighter Jet Dies, Killed Not by Washington but by Its Own Founders

PARIS, June 9 -- The fighter jet was supposed to be the proof. Proof that Europe could build its own sixth-generation warplane, free of American engines and American permission, a flying symbol of the... Read More


EU's Chief Election Observer Calls Armenia Vote Well-Organised as Moscow Disputes Legitimacy

YEREVAN, June 8 -- What the European Parliament's chief election observer saw on June 7 was an orderly process carried out with meticulousness. What Moscow saw was something to be dismissed before the... Read More


EU Readies Economic Support Package for Armenia as Pashinyan Secures New Mandate

New Delhi, June 8 -- The vote had barely been counted when Brussels answered. Speaking before EU defence ministers gathered in Cyprus on Monday, European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas confirm... Read More


Woman, 19, Shot Dead at North London Home as Murder Hunt Begins

LONDON, June 8 -- The call came in at 12:15 in the morning. Paramedics from the London Ambulance Service arrived at a house on Dale Grove, a quiet residential street in Finchley, North London, and fou... Read More


EU Set to Transfer $10.5 Billion to Ukraine in June, With Most Earmarked for Defense

New Delhi, June 8 -- Ukraine is days away from receiving the most concentrated financial transfer in its wartime history, and the majority of it will not go to schools or salaries. It will go to weapo... Read More


E3 Powers Write Ukraine's Peace Template - Without Washington in the Room

New Delhi, June 8 -- The document that came out of Downing Street on Sunday evening was modest in length, five numbered points and the usual pledges of unwavering support. What it represented was some... Read More


France Says Europe Is Ready to Play a Bigger Role in Ukraine Peace Talks

LONDON, June 7 -- For months, Europe has watched the push to end the war in Ukraine proceed on terms it had little hand in setting. The Americans held meetings in Anchorage and Miami. The Turks offere... Read More


Montenegro Put on Track for EU by 2028 as Brussels Races Russia and China

TIVAT, June 7 -- The smallest country at the table was handed the biggest promise. Montenegro, a nation of fewer than a million people on the Adriatic coast, left a gathering of European leaders this ... Read More


UK Deploys Sanctions as a Deterrent Against New Israeli West Bank Settlement

LONDON, June 7 -- The British government is treating its sanctions regime against Israeli settlers and ministers not merely as a response to past abuses but as a deterrent designed to head off new one... Read More


Armenia Closes Polls as Vote Count Begins, Turnout Nears Record High Amid Moscow's Legitimacy Challenge

YEREVAN, June 7 -- The last polling stations in Armenia shuttered at 8:00 p.m. on Sunday, handing ballot-counters a question that Kremlin officials had already decided to answer before the first tally... Read More