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The World in Photos This Week

An  ex-president is convicted, England celebrates, and Angela Merkel feeds a penguin.

JUNE 1, 2012

Grexit? Spexit? Let's Call the Whole Thing Off

Everyone wants southern Europe's troubled economies to go their own way, except for the people who live there.

BY EDWARD HUGH | MAY 31, 2012

Don't Fear the Grexit

Greece is not Lehman Brothers, and the global economy will be just fine if it drops out of the eurozone.

BY THOMAS OATLEY, KINDRED WINECOFF | MAY 23, 2012

5 Easy Ways to Solve the Greek Crisis

If, that is, the economists were in charge.

BY DANIEL ALTMAN | MAY 17, 2012

A Tale of Two Inaugurations

Whose inauguration had more bling -- Russian President Vladimir Putin's or French President François Hollande's?

MAY 15, 2012

A Land Without a Rudder

Greeks are clearly relieved to have crushed a corroded old political system, but now there's nothing workable to replace it.

BY JOANNA KAKISSIS | MAY 9, 2012

Only Germany Can Save Europe

The euro crisis is back with a vengeance -- and only Berlin can pull the continent from its economic doldrums.

BY HELEEN MEES | APRIL 24, 2012

The World in Photos This Week

The Pope dons a sombrero, French police hunt suspected Islamists, and a Tongan king is laid to rest.

MARCH 30, 2012

Help Wanted

Five things that are making it more difficult to get advanced economies back to work.

BY BYRON AUGUSTE, SUSAN LUND, AND JAMES MANYIKA | MARCH 16, 2012

Greece Fire

Shocking images of the sacking of Athens, as angry demonstrators destroyed historic ruins and local businesses.

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

From Paris with Love

Dear Mitt: What's this European socialist nightmare you're so afraid of? Trust me, la belle vie ain't that bad.

BY ERIC PAPE | JANUARY 13, 2012

The LWOT: Senate, House edit detainee provision in defense bill

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BY JENNIFER ROWLAND | DECEMBER 14, 2011

The Merkelization of Europe

A European Germany has become a German Europe -- and it's all downhill from here.

BY PAUL HOCKENOS | DECEMBER 9, 2011

The LWOT: AP report describes secret CIA prison in Romania

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BY JENNIFER ROWLAND | DECEMBER 9, 2011

Continental Divide

Do Europeans believe in the European Union enough to save it?

BY JAMES TRAUB | NOVEMBER 25, 2011

The LWOT: NYC "al-Qaeda sympathizer" faces terrorism charges

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BY JENNIFER ROWLAND | NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Merkozy, a Beautiful Friendship

As Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel team up to conquer the eurozone crisis, we imagine what it's like on the inside of Europe's most enviable friendship.

OCTOBER 27, 2011

From Berlin to Athens

As Greece's debt crisis continues to spiral downward, the leaders of Germany and Greece grapple with restive publics and the massive task of restoring the eurozone.

BY KEDAR PAVGI | SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The Icarus Zone

Never before has a monetary union been so full of anticipation and hype. Should we have known that the euro would buckle?

BY DAVID MARSH | SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Don't Call It a Comeback

Four reasons why Libya doesn't equal success for NATO.

BY KURT VOLKER | AUGUST 23, 2011

The Lost Lessons of Freedom

The march toward openness and democracy in the Soviet Union began under my great-grandfather, Nikita Khrushchev, flowered under Mikhail Gorbachev, and has nearly been erased in Vladimir Putin's Russia.

BY NINA L. KHRUSHCHEVA | AUGUST 19, 2011

Europe's Conservative Confusion

Nearly every government on the continent is center-right. So why can't they get along and figure out how to save the EU economies?

BY TYSON BARKER | AUGUST 12, 2011

The LWOT: Alleged Ft. Hood plotter indicted

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BY JENNIFER ROWLAND AND ANDREW LEBOVICH | AUGUST 12, 2011

All the World's Traders and All the World's Yen…

Traders react to the plummeting market on trading-room floors around the world.

AUGUST 8, 2011

Who's to Blame if We Double-Dip?

Five people, places, and things everyone's wagging their fists at as the markets crash.

BY CAMERON ABADI | AUGUST 5, 2011

Rise of the Radical Right

Anders Behring Breivik is not alone. In fact, Europe has many more dangerous extremists than anyone thinks.

BY JAMIE BARTLETT, JONATHAN BIRDWELL | JULY 25, 2011

Europe's Economic Meltdown: How Did We Get Here?

A look back at the missteps and bailouts, in pictures.

BY CAMERON ABADI | JULY 20, 2011

A Continent, Sinking

Europe's financial crisis is a Titanic moment, threatening to bring down not only the EU's major economies, but its political raison d'être. Is it too late to save the ship?

BY STEVEN ERLANGER | JULY 20, 2011

The LWOT: Somali indicted after secret arrest, interrogation

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BY ANDREW LEBOVICH | JULY 8, 2011

Frau Flip-Flop

How Angela Merkel went from pro-nukes to no-nukes.

BY PAUL HOCKENOS | JUNE 1, 2011