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European Union chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier speaks during a media conference after Brexit trade talks between the EU and the UK, in Brussels, Friday, Aug. 21, 2020. (Yves Herman, Pool Photo via AP)

EU-UK deadlock on trade talks goes on with time running out

By RAF CASERT - Associated Press

A women holds a rainbow flags as she stands in front of a police line during a protest against a demonstration of far-right activists in Warsaw, Poland, Sunday, Aug. 16, 2020. The far-right activists protest against LGBT rights. Tensions over LGBT rights have been growing in Poland after an increasingly visible gay rights movement has been met by an angry backlash from the church and the government. (Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Artists, academics defend LGBT rights in Poland

Associated Press

Belarusian opposition supporters gather for a protest rally in front of the government building at Independent Square in Minsk, Belarus, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020. Workers at more state-controlled companies and factories took part in the strike that began the day before and has encompassed several truck and tractor factories, a huge potash factory that accounts for a fifth of the world's potash fertilizer output and is the nation's top cash earner, state television and the country's most prominent theater. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)

Trump pressed on Belarus protests against Lukashenko

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Tunisian Interior and Prime Minister designate Hichem Mechichi, right, greets Italian Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese at Tunis Carthage airport in Tunis, Monday, Aug, 17, 2020. Top Italian and EU officials are holding talks in Tunisia on Monday to try to stem the growing numbers of migrants crossing from this North African country to Europe. (AP Photo/Riadh Dridi)

Italy, EU pledge support for Tunisian jobs to slow migration

By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA - Associated Press

This photo provided Friday Aug.14, 2020 by the French Defense Ministry shows the French Tonnerre helicopter carrier, center, escorted by Greek and French military vessels during a maritime exercise in the Eastern Mediterranean, Thursday, Aug. 13, 2020. Greece's prime minister warmly thanked France Thursday for boosting its military presence in the eastern Mediterranean, where Greek and Turkish warships are closely shadowing each other over a Turkish energy exploration bid in waters Athens claims as its own. (French Defense Ministry via AP)

EU holding urgent talks on Greece-Turkey energy dispute

By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS and SUZAN FRASER - Associated Press

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson arrives at the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service HQ during his visit to Belfast, Thursday, Aug. 13, 2020. (Brian Lawless/PA via AP)

UK’s Johnson seeks to quell Brexit fears in Northern Ireland

By PAN PYLAS - Associated Press

EU slaps duties on Cambodia exports over rights concerns

Associated Press

A man wearing a face mask amid the COVID-19 pandemic passes a mural of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, July 22, 2020. Analysts say that in recent months the pandemic has helped suck away the opposition’s scanty momentum and bolster Maduro’s already strong hand. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

EU refuses to monitor Venezuelan election, urges delay

Associated Press

Palestinians carry posters showing Mahmoud Nawajaa, a leading coordinator of the Palestinian-led boycott movement against Israel, BDS, during a protest calling for the EU to press for his release, in front of the German Representative Office, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020. The activist was arrested on July 30, remains in Israeli custody and has not been charged. Israel says the arrest is not connected to his boycott activities, and that he is is suspected of unspecified “security offenses,&quot; but boycott activists accuse Israel of fabricating the case in order to justify the arrest. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Palestinian protesters urge Israel to free boycott activist

Associated Press

Piotr Grabarczyk and his boyfriend Kamil Pawlik, right, from Poland, wait for a taxi outside the airport after Grabarczyk arrived in Barcelona, Spain, early Wednesday, July 29, 2020. Like them, many LGBT people are choosing to leave Poland amid rising homophobia promoted by President Andrzej Duda and other right-wing populist politicians in power. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Polish LGBT people leaving as post-vote mood grows hostile

By Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

F|ILE - In this file photo dated Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020, the British Union flag, right, and the EU flag, seen inside the atrium at the Europa building in Brussels. The number of Britons moving to live in European Union countries has soared since the Brexit vote in 2016, a U.K.-German study has revealed Tuesday Aug. 4, 2020.(AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, FILE)

Researchers say UK faces a Brexit brain drain to the EU

Associated Press

Albania amends constitution aimed at holding better election

By LLAZAR SEMINI - Associated Press

First-ever EU cyber sanctions hit Russian, Chinese, NKoreans

By LORNE COOK - Associated Press

EU prolongs North Korea nuclear sanctions for a year

Associated Press

Cyprus: Putin ‘to help ease’ gas search tensions with Turkey

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS - Associated Press

EU keeps LGBT-hostile Polish towns out of local fund program

Associated Press

Western Balkan leaders discuss virus impacts, EU membership

By LLAZAR SEMINI - Associated Press

In this Friday, May 15, 2020, file photo, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban listens to a question during a press conference after a meeting with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic in Belgrade, Serbia. Hungary's prime minister says that his country won a “very important battle” at the European Union summit this week, where national leaders of the 27-member bloc decided on a seven-year budget and economic recovery package to counter the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)

Hungarian PM claims EU win but rule-of-law dispute not over

By Pablo Gorondi - Associated Press

European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson listens to a question during an online news conference with European Commissioner for Promoting our European Way of Life Margaritas Schinas at the EU headquarters in Brussels, Friday, July 24, 2020. The European Commission unveiled plans Friday to create a European center to prevent child sexual abuse amid a spike in mistreatment in recent years and during the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, Pool)

EU unveils plans to step up fight against child sexual abuse

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN - Associated Press

Albania’s parliament approves electoral reforms sought by EU

By LLAZAR SEMINI - Associated Press