More Reasons to Hate Europe

Bush urged Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi as an old ally on Thursday to take a tougher stand over Iran’s nuclear program and expand Italy’s military role in Afghanistan. Bush, on the third stop of a week-long farewell tour of European ...

President Bush is urging Europe to work with the United States on issues with global reach. He says they should focus on more than just trans-Atlantic issues, and work together to help bring peace to the Middle East, curb Islamic extremism, and deal ...

Bush visited one of his most rock-steady European supporters on Thursday: Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. But serious problems back home intruded in a high-profile way on Bush's weeklong trip to Europe. Tornadoes that killed four at an ...

While The Netherlands opened their group C campaign with a 3-0 demolition of world champions Italy with a fluency as potent as the total football they invented in the 1970s, France had just one shot on target in a dull 0-0 draw with Romania. A draw ...

Bush praised Italy Thursday for moving to take a broader security role in Afghanistan and said he was open to a wider diplomatic role for Rome in the Iran nuclear standoff. And in excerpts of a speech he was to give in Paris on Friday, he predicted ...

AP Photo/Jacques Brinon) French President Nicolas Sarkozy, left, greets Afghan President Hamid Karzai at the the Elysee Palace in Paris, Thursday June 12, 2008. Karzai is in Paris to attend an Afghanistan fundraising conference where he will present ...

The Paris donors' conference that opened June 12 provides a pivotal opportunity to correct past mistakes in Afghanistan's reconstruction effort. Already, Afghanistan's supporters have pledged additional billions in development assistance. But to ...

President Bush said Thursday that he probably would send a high-level aide — rather than go himself — to an oil summit in Saudi Arabia this month. "It's an interesting idea. I need to go home and study it," Bush said of the summit. "We'll send ...

Army Military Police escort a detainee to his cell in Camp X-Ray at Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. DC -- President Bush on Thursday strongly disagreed with a Supreme Court ruling that clears foreign terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay to ...

President Bush is urging Europe to more aggressively partner with the United States to look beyond trans-Atlantic issues and focus on global problems such as Mideast peace, curtailing the rise of radical Islamic terrorists and keeping regimes such ...