Europe

The Trump administration’s push for direct negotiations with Russia without Ukraine’s involvement leaves the European allies with no clear role.

By Andrew E. Kramer

President Trump’s approach to foreign policy deals is reviving a bygone imperial approach that may backfire, experts say.

By Mark Landler

In the Netherlands, doctors and dementia patients must negotiate a fine line: Assisted death for those without capacity is legal, but doctors won’t do it.

By Stephanie Nolen

Remarks by Vice President JD Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are fueling concerns that the U.S. will move away from Europe and align with Moscow.

By Paul Sonne

A woman who runs a pro-Ukraine group has been accused by Prime Minister Robert Fico of Slovakia of plotting to topple him as part of his campaign against organizations he says are funded from abroad.

By Andrew Higgins

President Volodymyr Zelensky publicly faulted the American proposal because it did not include security guarantees.

By Constant Méheut, Andrew E. Kramer, David E. Sanger and Eve Sampson

At the Munich Security Conference, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz rebuked U.S. Vice President JD Vance’s call for German leaders to allow the hard-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD, to enter their government.

By The Associated Press

The couple last posted online from Iran in early January. Britain’s foreign office confirmed their detention after Iranian reports about British nationals accused of “security crimes.”

By Lynsey Chutel

Vice President JD Vance and Elon Musk have challenged decades-long approaches to political extremism that were designed to prevent another Hitler.

By Jim Tankersley

After years of the U.S. trying to isolate Russia’s closest ally, a meeting with Belarus’s president points to better relations, raising hopes of loosening his repression and his embrace of Moscow.

By Andrew Higgins and Tomas Dapkus