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Rescuers work at the scene of a building damaged by Russian rocket attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrii Marienko)

Hungary opposes billions in new EU aid for Ukraine. A new summit will try to change that

By Samuel Petrequin - Associated Press

A bell tower of the Saint Sophia Cathedral is seen through the destroyed Russian artillery cannon in downtown Kyiv, Ukraine, on Monday, Jan. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

EU leaders exhort allies to do more for Ukraine as ministers debate ways to fill its ammunition gap

By Lorne Cook - Associated Press

Tractors face military vehicles on a blocked highway, Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024 in Chilly-Mazarin, south of Paris. Farmers have captured France's attention by showering government offices with manure and besieging Paris with traffic-snarling barricades of tractors and hay bales. Protesters say it's becoming harder than ever to make a decent living from their fields, greenhouses and herds. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Traffic-blocking farmers now closing in on EU capital in a protest seeking better market conditions

By Raf Casert - Associated Press

CORRECTS CITY TO KHAN YOUNIS, INSTEAD OF RAFAH - Palestinians flee from the city of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza after an Israeli ground and air offensive on Monday, Jan. 29, 2024. Israel has expanded its offensive in Khan Younis, saying the city is a stronghold of the Hamas militant group. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Live updates | 150 people are killed in Gaza in 24 hours, Health Ministry says

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Farmers relax by a bonfire as they block a highway Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024 in Jossigny, east of Paris. With protesting farmers camped out at barricades around Paris, France's government hoped to calm their anger with more concessions Tuesday to their complaints that growing and rearing food has become too difficult and not sufficiently lucrative. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Protesting farmers have France’s government in a bind

By John Leicester - Associated Press

A bell tower of the Saint Sophia Cathedral is seen through the destroyed Russian artillery cannon in downtown Kyiv, Ukraine, on Monday, Jan. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

EU moves toward using profits from frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine, but slowly

By Raf Casert - Associated Press

Anti-death penalty activists place signs along the road heading to Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Ala., ahead of the scheduled execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith on Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024. The state plans to put Smith to death with nitrogen gas, the first time the new method has been used in the United States. (AP Photo/Kim Chandler)

EU, U.N. Human Rights Office express regret over execution of a man using nitrogen gas in Alabama

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Israel's Foreign Minister Israel Katz, right, arrives for a meeting of EU foreign ministers at the European Council building in Brussels, Monday, Jan. 22, 2024. European Union Foreign Affairs Ministers meet in Brussels on Monday to discuss the situation in the Middle East and in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

EU pushes for Palestinian statehood, rejecting Israeli leader’s insistence it’s off the table

By Lorne Cook - Associated Press

A customs agent works with a drug sniffer dog in the Port of Antwerp on Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022. Customs seized another record amount of cocaine in the port of Antwerp in 2023, with 116 tons intercepted, Belgian authorities said on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)

Belgian customs seized record amount of cocaine as EU faces rise in drug-related violence

By Samuel Petrequin - Associated Press

Microsoft allows cloud users to keep personal data within Europe to ease privacy fears

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European Commissioner for Home Affairs, Ylva Johansson, speaks at a panel discussion on migration in Athens, Greece, on Monday, Jan. 8, 2024. Johansson and Greek officials discussed details of a preliminary EU agreement on migration management reached last month following years of tough negotiations. (AP Photo/Michael Varaklas)

The EU loses about a million workers per year due to aging. Migration official urges legal options

By Lefteris Pitarakis and Derek Gatopoulos - Associated Press

Border and immigration issues in Europe

Border and immigration concerns are deciding elections in Europe

By Simon Hankinson and Ian Cruz

France's former European commission president Jacques Delors delivers his speech in support of French socialist presidential candidate Segolene Royal at a campaign meeting in Lille, northern France, on May 3, 2007. Delors, a Paris bank messenger’s son who became the visionary and builder of a more unified Europe in his momentous decade as chief executive of the European Union, has died in Paris, his daughter Martine Aubry said Wednesday Dec. 27, 2023. He was 98. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)

Jacques Delors, ‘Mr. Europe,’ dies aged 98

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Poland President Andrzej Duda speaks at an event supporting tripling global nuclear capacity by 2050 during the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit, Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Poland’s president says he intends to veto a spending bill that includes money for public media and raises for teachers, dealing a blow to the new pro-European Union government of Prime Minister Donald Tusk. President Andrzej Duda said Saturday, Dec. 23 he would veto the bill that includes 3 billion zlotys ($762 million) for public media and would propose a bill of his own. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

Polish president defies new government in battle over control of state media

Maria Zelenchuk prays in the kitchen of her house before Christmas dinner in Kryvorivnia village, Ukraine, Sunday, Dec. 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Christmas barrage: Ukraine says it foiled massive Russian drone assault

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin appears at an event at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Dec. 18, 2023. Putin seems to be hoping that relentless military pressure, combined with changing Western political dynamics and a global focus on the Israeli-Hamas war, will drain support for Ukraine in the nearly 2-year-old war and force Kyiv to yield to Moscow's demands. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

What a difference a year makes: Putin confident, Ukraine on the defensive as 2024 looms

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

A Federal Police officer speaks into his radio as he and a colleague track down a group of migrants who have illegally crossed the border from Poland into Germany, while on patrol in a forest near Forst southeast of Berlin, Germany, on Oct. 11, 2023. European Union leaders and top officials hailed on Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2023, a major breakthrough in talks on new rules to control migration, but critics said the reforms will weaken the rights of asylum-seekers and encourage more morally dubious deals with countries that people leave to get to Europe. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

EU hails a migration deal breakthrough after years of talks. Critics worry about rights abuses

By Lorne Cook - Associated Press

FILE - An Air France jumbo jet rolls behind the tail of a KLM Royal Dutch airliner at Charles de Gaulle airport in Roissy, north of Paris. On Sept. 30, 2003. Low-cost carriers Ryanair and Malta Air won a European court case Wednesday Dec.20 2023 against the EU's decision to approve billions of euros of state aid by the French government to holding company Air France-KLM during the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere, File)

EU court annuls approval of French pandemic aid to Air France and Air France-KLM

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Biden economy illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

Biden’s failures mean he gets little credit for the positive state of the economy

By Peter Morici

European Union flags wave in the wind as pedestrians walk by EU headquarters in Brussels, on Sept. 20, 2023. The European Union said Monday Dec. 18, 2023 that it has imposed fresh sanctions on Russia over its war against Ukraine, targeting the lucrative diamonds industry, more than 140 officials and organizations, and closing loopholes that Moscow has used to bypass previous punitive measures. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)

European Union targets Russia’s diamond industry in its latest round of Ukraine war sanctions

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