Eastern Europe

Here is everything you should know about Orthodox Easter, the holiday observed by Eastern Orthodox countries that usually falls after Catholic Easter.

As the fighting in Ukraine enters its sixth week, Ukrainians are rushing to leave their home country for Poland and other eastern European countries.

“Nobody is under any illusions anymore,” Fatih Birol, the IEA’s executive director, said in a statement Thursday.

It comes as tensions between Russia and Ukraine have pushed discussions about energy independence to the fore.

UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee just named 34 sites to the prestigious World Heritage List, representing two years’ worth of site nominations.

The importance of ports to the sector was illustrated by a number of announcements this week.

Germany marked the 30th anniversary Saturday of the opening of the Berlin Wall, a pivotal moment in the events that brought down Communism in eastern Europe. Leaders from Germany, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic attended a ceremony at Bernauer Strasse — where one of the last parts of the Berlin Wall remains — before placing roses in the...

Jeremy Irvine, the star of USA’s “Treadstone,” talks about the new show, the timeline and what to expect from the new series.

House Democrats subpoenaed Energy Secretary Rick Perry on Thursday as part of their impeachment investigation into President Donald Trump’s dealings with Ukraine. The chairmen of the House Intelligence, Foreign Affairs and Oversight committees sent Perry a subpoena asking him to provide documents related to a Ukrainian state-owned energy company as well as his involvement in a July call between Trump...

A new report says more than one-third of women in four low-income countries in Africa and Asia were slapped, mocked, forcibly treated or otherwise abused during childbirth in health centers and suggests that such mistreatment occurs worldwide. The study published Wednesday in The Lancet medical journal says women in Nigeria, Myanmar, Ghana and Guinea also experienced high rates of cesarean...

Facebook says it has removed hundreds of Russia-linked pages, groups and accounts that it says were part of two big disinformation operations, in its latest effort to fight fake news. The social media company said Thursday it took action after finding two networks “that engaged in coordinated inauthentic behavior” on its Facebook and Instagram platforms. Facebook’s head of cybersecurity policy,...

The U.S. Justice Department charged eight people Tuesday in connection with the takedown of two international cybercriminal rings that cost advertisers tens of millions of dollars. “As alleged in court filings, the defendants in this case used sophisticated computer programming and infrastructure around the world to exploit the digital advertising industry through fraud,” said U.S. Attorney Richard Donoghue.

GuideLive Entertainment Editor Sarah Blaskovich has ideas on what to do this weekend, including where to watch the World Cup, go to the National Fantasy Football Convention and where to pick blueberries.

It took five years, but a North Texas woman has finally been cured of an infection that antibiotics couldn’t kill. She traveled halfway around the world to find the cure in the form of a virus.

She’s lived with urinary tract infections for more than five years and has tried multiple rounds and combinations of antibiotics with no luck. Now, a Rowlett grandmother is hoping a decades-old therapy in Eastern Europe will do what medicine can’t.

She’s lived with urinary tract infections for more than five years and has tried multiple rounds and combinations of antibiotics with no luck. Now, a Rowlett grandmother is hoping a decades-old therapy in Eastern Europe will do what medicine can’t.

You could argue I had already grown out of Toys R Us by the time I first set foot in one. It was 1991. I was 13, a Hungarian immigrant, new to America. New to breakfast cereal, to dozens of channels on the TV and to big stores with endless shelves of toys. Now that it might be nearly gone,...

With his tuxedo loosened and her dress slightly askew, the couple unwinding with cocktails in a new U.S. ad for Bacardi’s Havana Club evokes the openness and decadence of pre-revolution Cuba that many exiles have longed for.

Hundreds of mourners, including law enforcement officers from around the country, are gathering in Scranton, Pennsylvania, for the funeral of a state trooper amid a mood of grief and fear as a manhunt continues 40 miles away for the killer, identified as a self-taught survivalist who hates police.