It will be harder for the terror group Islamic State (IS) to launch massive terror attacks in the U. S. than in Europe amid the rising terror threat worldwide, a U.S. expert has said.
U.S. State Department issued a travel alert Tuesday, warning Americans about the risk of potential terrorist attacks this summer in Europe.
"The large number of tourists visiting Europe in the summer months will present greater targets for terrorists," the State Department said.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande marked the 100-year anniversary of the Battle of Verdun side-by-side on Sunday, laying a wreath at a cemetery in northeastern France for the 300,000 soldiers killed.
A small town in Belgium that spent a century living outside the map of Europe's great power system celebrates the 200th anniversary of the quirky autonomy it secured in the wake of the Napoleonic wars.
Spending on luxury goods by Chinese shoppers abroad fell last month for the first time since such records began in 2010, leading to the worst ever monthly result for the luxury goods industry’s tourist sales, retail tax-refund services company Global Blue says.
Caravans of camels carrying silk, jewels and spices along the Silk Road are long gone, but cargo trains linking Chinese cities with Europe are taking the ancient road into a brand-new future.
Terrorism represents a universal threat, and the only way to put an end to it is through joint efforts of all countries, Russian experts said Wednesday.
Less than five months after bloody terrorist attacks rocked Paris last November, Brussels, the capital of the European Union, also suffered from multiple deadly bomb attacks on Tuesday morning, killing at least 34 people and injuring 170 more.
Last fall, soccer fans celebrated refugee children at a legendary Munich stadium; today, European voters are boosting anti-immigrant political parties and governments are closing their gates to new arrivals. The refrain of Europe's migrant crisis has changed from "welcome" to "enough already."
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Thursday that Turkey abides by the joint refugee action plan it signed with the European Union (EU) and will continue to fulfill its part.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday defended her open-door policy for migrants, rejecting any limit on the number of refugees allowed into her country despite divisions within her government.
The European Parliament's political group leaders here on Wednesday debated on the latest deal between the European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom (UK) on EU's reforms, and they held that both sides will be better off with Britain in the bloc.
European countries must stop forced evictions of Roma people, Nils Muiznieks, the Council of Europe (CoE)'s human rights commissioner said Tuesday.
Bavaria, the southern state of Germany, the main entrance to the largest economic power of the European Union (EU) for immigrants coming from the Middle East, has greeted since last summer thousands of hundreds of refugees who fled their homeland conflict.
The migration crisis seems still out of control three weeks after the European Union (EU) signalled its open borders Schengen might be suspended for two years unless the flow of refugees slows down soon.
The debate held here on Wednesday at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE)'s winter session made it clear that the new battle underway in Europe turns around the question of the number and the origins of refugees in a context generally growing more hostile toward migrants.
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