BEIJING (Reuters) - China allowed a blind legal activist, Chen Guangcheng, to leave a hospital in Beijing on Saturday and board a plane bound for the United States, a move that could signal the end of a diplomatic standoff between the two countries. ... [Full Article]
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's president will ask politicians on Tuesday to stand aside and let a government of technocrats steer the nation away from bankruptcy, but leftists have already rejected the proposal and look set to force a new election ... [Full Article]
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's radical leftist leader spurned an invitation from the president for a final round of coalition talks on Monday, all but ensuring a new election that he is poised to win. Greece's political landscape has been in d... [Full Article]
ATHENS (Reuters) - The leaders of Greece's once-dominant conservative and socialist parties made a push on Friday to avert new elections and prevent a victory by a radical leftist who has promised to tear up its international bailout deal. The m... [Full Article]
Greece drew closer to holding repeat elections next month after Radical Left leader Alexis Tsipras said Wednesday he has failed to forge a coalition that would end the financially struggling country's political deadlock. (Source: Associated Pres... [Full Article]
ATHENS (Reuters) - Radical leftist Alexis Tsipras meets the leaders of Greece's mainstream parties on Wednesday, with little chance of clinching a deal on a coalition government after he set tearing up an EU/IMF bailout deal as a condition. A ne... [Full Article]
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's Left Coalition party will get an historic chance on Tuesday to form a government opposed to the country's EU/IMF bailout, after the mainstream conservatives failed to cobble together a coalition following shock e... [Full Article]
Romanian lawmakers have approved a new left-leaning Cabinet that is expected to continue a slate of economic reforms. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
PARIS (Reuters) - Giddy revellers thronged Paris's Bastille square on Sunday as Socialist Francois Hollande swept to a presidential election victory, erupting into cheers and rejoicing not seen since the party's only other elected president... [Full Article]