A day after 8 CRPF troopers were killed in a landmine blast by Maoists in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district, a top police official said the guerrillas have massively mined the state's forested areas and it was difficult to de-mine the vast stretches.

• May 9, 2010

British air passengers may face yet more misery as a volcanic ash cloud continues to threaten European flight schedules.

• May 9, 2010

Weak prospects for opening even one new chapter in Turkey's EU accession talks are souring the festive atmosphere surrounding Europe Day.

• May 9, 2010

President Obama is "very concerned" about Greece's economic crisis, sees mounting threats against the United States from non-state actors and wants to resolve the dispute with Russia over adoptions, he said in an interview released Saturday by the White House.

• May 9, 2010

Victory Day in World War II. Arguably, it is not a parade of NATO troops but rather of Russia's erstwhile allies in the coalition against Adolf Hitler. Nor are parades necessarily the stuff of real politics or the harbingers of military alliances. Yet,

• May 9, 2010

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych responded coolly Thursday to a Russian proposal to merge the two countries' gas companies, saying even his Kremlin-friendly administration might ignore the idea.

• May 8, 2010

No agreement on a new government is likely by Monday morning, a U.K. Conservative party spokesman said Saturday, as Liberal Democrats leader Nick Clegg met with his party to discuss a possible deal with the Conservatives.

• May 8, 2010

In the space of a few weeks, Ukraine has executed a stunning geopolitical pirouette.

• May 8, 2010