Obama and Putin’s latest awkward photo

Face-to-face meetings between President Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin are fairly rare. They talk on the phone with relative frequency, but many of their previous personal meetings have been remarkably brief – and sometimes quite awkward. Here's a rundown of in-person chats between the two leaders over the years. 2009 – A two-hour meeting in Moscow In 2009, a fresh-faced […]











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Greek Prime Minister Tsipras slams Turkey on Twitter, then deletes his comments

The complexity of international diplomacy rarely spills over into the 140-character world of Twitter. On Sunday, however, observers were astonished when Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras took to the platform to harshly criticize Turkey -- only to delete the comments shortly afterward. "Fortunately our pilots are not as mercurial as yours against the Russians," Tsipras wrote, […]











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The ‘War on Christmas’ erupts in Italy

What began as one Italian school official's attempts at inclusion ended with a public rebuke from his country's top leader and the official's resignation. Concerns about a "war on Christmas" have gone global. It all began when Marco Parma, a 63-year-old Italian headmaster, decided to push his school's annual Christmas concert to January, dropping religious music from the event and renaming it a "winter […]











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Poll: Only 6 percent of would-be Syrian refugees want to move to North America

According to a new Gallup poll, a tiny fraction of would-be Syrian refugees say their desired home lies in the United States or Canada. The survey, which was conducted in January through face-to-face interviews, found that only 6 percent of Syrians who said they were contemplating leaving their country imagined North America as their chosen destination. […]











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Photos: The tattered remnants of refugees’ long journeys

In the Finnish border town of Tornio, busloads of refugees — mostly Iraqis, but also Afghans, Syrians and an array of Africans — arrived each day, their last stop on long journeys across Europe by foot, rail, bus and even ferry. Stepping off the buses, people would look around, put on jackets and light cigarettes, but […]











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