MOSCOW, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- Sanctions against Russia over its recent military actions in Georgia would harm the European Union more than they would Russia, a Russian ambassador said.

BERLIN, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- Leaders in Europe are concerned that Russia's military campaign in Georgia may be repeated in other countries of the region.

PARIS, Aug. 20 (UPI) -- The extraordinary meeting of NATO's foreign ministers Tuesday reached an uneasy and unsatisfactory compromise over their response to Russia's military incursion into Georgia.

BERLIN, July 24 (UPI) -- Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama in a major speech in Germany urged Europe to stand closer by America's side to win the war in Afghanistan and help solve security issues around the world.

BERLIN, July 22 (UPI) -- German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier says he's optimistic Ireland will find "a way forward" after a vote to ratify the Treaty of Lisbon.

ISTANBUL, Turkey, July 20 (UPI) -- Three German mountain climbers abducted in Turkey by a Kurdish rebel group have been safely released, Turkish officials said Sunday.

MOSCOW, July 19 (UPI) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says that for peace talks to work, Georgia must remove its troops from Abkhazia's upper Kodori Gorge.

BERLIN, July 14 (UPI) -- Not everyone wants presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama to speak in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. Even the Obama team now seems ready to change plans after a dispute inside the German government began to damage the senator's campaign.

BERLIN, June 16 (UPI) -- EU leaders Monday were picking through the wreckage of the body's constitutional reform but failed to come up with an easy fix for the crisis sparked by the Irish "No" vote to the Lisbon Treaty.