The White House says President Joe Biden is ordering new sanctions after Russia moved to recognize separatist eastern Ukraine regions. The Biden administration calls Monday’s announcement by Russian President Vladimir Putin a “blatant violation of Russia’s international commitments.”...

BRUSSELS, Feb 21 (Reuters) - The main political grouping in the European Parliament called on Monday for a review of Switzerland's banking practices and for the country's possible inclusion in the EU's dirty-money blacklist after leaks of Credit Suisse (CSGN.S) documents. Media outlets...

In northeast Syria, the country’s historic breadbasket, the drought's effects have been compounded by more than a decade of war, a devastated economy, damaged infrastructure and increasing poverty. At a government bakery in Hasaka, Syria, a faded image of former President Hafez...

MUNICH (AP) — Moscow would have its access to financial markets and high-tech goods limited under Western sanctions being prepared in case Russia attacks Ukraine, a top European Union official said Saturday. The comments from Ursula von der Leyen, head of the EU's Executive Commission,...