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U.S. President Barack Obama walks away from the podium following the end of his news conference at the G20 Summit in Brisbane, Australia on Sunday. Obama left Australia back for Washington on Monday. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

China, Australia strike major free-trade deal after Obama leaves

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Border policemen stand guard at Bulgarian-Turkish border where many of the illegal immigrants enter in 2013. Bulgarian authorities built a 20-mile fence on its border with Turkey to prevent illegal entry. (Associated Press)

Syrian refugees unwelcome in Bulgaria

By John Dyer - SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES

This Saturday, Nov. 8, 2014 photo shows the entrance to the office of World Health Organization in Yangon, Myanmar. The World Health Organization's office, surrounded by an eight-foot high fence and an iron gate, says it is paying around $80,000 a month for its office in this garish mansion in Myanmar's crumbling old capital. With the lifting of most sanctions and the easing of diplomatic pressure after the former pariah state began its transition to democracy, foreign donors, international aid organizations and multinational companies started flooding into the country. That has pushed rents sky-high, some organizations putting up to a $1 million dollars a year into the pockets of former and current generals and cronies. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)

Aid groups in Myanmar trip over links to elite

By ROBIN McDOWELL - Associated Press

Fighting has continued in eastern Ukraine despite a September cease-fire agreement forged with Russia. (Associated Press)

Russia pushes into Ukraine, prompting Obama rebuke but no new sanctions

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Sweden's Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom speaks during a news conference Thursday, Oct. 30, 2014, at the government building Rosenbad, in Stockholm, after Sweden's new government officially recognized a Palestinian state. (AP Photo/Annika af Klercker)

Sweden recognizes Palestinian state; Israel upset

By Karl Ritter - Associated Press

Greek Public Order Minister Vassilis Kikilias pushed back against media reports that Greece has detected six Islamic State recruits traveling through. "We've been monitoring a lot of guys that pass by. But there was no arrest of jihadists in Greece," he said. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

Terror issues loom large in Greek official Kikilias’ Washington visit

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Emissions pour from The Corus steel plant in the Netherlands. The European Union’s cap-and-trade emissions trading scheme, while more affordable than the carbon tax, has run into problems of its own, as the early “market” for polluting rights proved badly out of whack, sending designers back to the drawing board. (Associated Press)

Emissions drop puts EU just shy of 2020 goal

Associated Press

U.S. President Barack Obama addresses the Climate Summit at United Nations headquarters, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) **FILE**

C. BOYDEN GRAY: Obama’s empty promises, go-it-alone policies won’t fight climate change

By C. Boyden Gray

French President Francois Hollande, right, speaks with European Council President Herman Van Rompuy during a group photo at an EU summit in Brussels, on Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014. EU leaders gathered Thursday for a two-day summit in which they will discuss Ebola, climate change and the economy. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

EU agrees to 40 percent cut in greenhouse gas emissions

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Image: Facebook, Norwegian Air International

EU to meet with U.S. over embattled Norwegian airline; carrier wants low-cost fare for Americans

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

EU Commissioner for competition Joaquin Almunia addresses the media at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, on Wednesday Oct. 8, 2014. The European Union's competition watchdog has accepted Britain's bid to heavily subsidize the construction and operation of a new 16-billion pound (dollars 26 billion) nuclear power plant. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)

UK cleared to heavily subsidize $39B nuclear plant

By Juergen Baetz - Associated Press

European Commissioner for Competition Joaquin Almunia addresses the media at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2014. The European Union’s competition authority is opening a formal investigation of Amazon’s European corporate income tax practices. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)

EU broadens corporate tax crackdown to Amazon

By JUERGEN BAETZ - Associated Press

refugees: Nearly 1,600 migrants fleeing lands controlled by the Islamic State have died in transit to Europe in the past three months alone. (associated press)

Migrant deaths underscore EU’s immigration problem

By Janelle Dumalaon — Special to The Washington Times

The quantum cascade laser developed at Fraunhofer IAF detects dangerous materials from a distance. (Image: Fraunhofer IAF)

Laser bomb-detecting technology can blanket cities, find urban terrorists

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Rosneft opened a field of super-light oil in the Kara Sea, where the deposits reportedly exceed 750 million barrels. Its partnership with Exxon Mobil Corp., however, is put on hold because of U.S. sanctions against Russia over its military aggression in Ukraine. (Rosneft Press Service via Associated Press)

U.S. sanctions against Russia stymie Western oil companies’ Arctic aspirations

By Patrice Hill - The Washington Times

In this March 4, 2014 file photo, a monument to Ukrainian poet and writer Taras Shevchenko is silhouetted against an apartment building with a sign advertising Russia's natural gas giant Gazprom, in Moscow, Russia. A senior administration official said Tuesday that Russia's largest banks could be the next targets of sweeping sanctions if Moscow further invades Ukraine. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, file)

Russia, Ukraine in talks on gas as winter looms

Associated Press

Sweden's Annika Sorenstam tees off from the 18th during a Pro Am event ahead of the Women's British Open golf tournament at the Old Course at the Royal and Ancient Golf Club in St Andrews, Scotland, in this Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2007, file photo. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)

Scotland minus EU equals higher whiskey prices: bank report

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Former president Bill Clinton speaks at a student conference for the Clinton Global Initiative University at Arizona State University, in this March 21, 2014, file photo taken in Tempe, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Bill Clinton tries to save the queen, begs Scotland to stay

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko speaks to lawmakers in parliament in Kiev, Ukraine Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014. Ukraine's parliament ratified an agreement to deepen economic and political ties with the European Union on Tuesday, and passed legislation to grant autonomy to the rebellious east as part of a peace deal. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Ukraine parliament ratifies EU pact

By Laura Mills - Associated Press