As heads of state arrive at the NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, CNBC speaks to Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, Prime Minister of Lithuania Krišjānis Kariņš, President of Poland Andrzej Duda, ...

Belarus under Lukashenko has become embroiled in the battle between NATO-backed Western Europe and Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Meanwhile, Belarus’ record on human rights – and its complicity in Russia’s ...

President Donald Trump said NATO countries must sharply increase their defense spending, demanding member states push beyond current benchmarks that many of them already struggle to hit.

Less than 24 hours after U.S. President Donald Trump was sworn into office on Monday, new Secretary of State Marco Rubio met foreign minister counterparts from America’s closest allies in the ...

The extremely active position of Paris regarding the need to ensure Kiev's "strong position" in the negotiation process with Moscow, voiced a few days earlier by Emmanuel Macron in an appeal to the ...

Belarus is holding a presidential election on Sunday that will secure another five-year mandate for Alexander Lukashenko, who has been in power for over three decades and crushed all opposition.

A horrifying video by researchers at Princeton University simulates how a nuclear war between the US and Russia might unfold, estimating that tens of millions would perish in the first 24 hours alone.

For Europe, Trump’s second term is the harshest of wake-up calls. The fairy tale of transatlantic partnership, where the U.S. was the benevolent big brother, is officially dead and buried. What’s left ...

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Belarusians vote on Sunday in a presidential election to extend Alexander Lukashenko's 30-year stranglehold on power in which ...

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Russia’s hybrid warfare spreads across Europe, recruiting locals for espionage and sabotage, weakening support for Ukraine ...