Europe News - AP

MOSCOW - European Union monitors will deploy to regions surrounding South Ossetia and Abkhazia by next month and Russian troops will pull out after that, President Dmitry Medvedev said Monday.

MOSCOW - Russia said Monday it will send a naval squadron and long-range patrol planes to Venezuela this year for a joint military exercise in the Caribbean, an announcement made at a time of increasingly tense relations with the United States.

KIEV, Ukraine - Ukraine's prime minister was summoned by prosecutors for questioning, officials said Monday, in the latest chapter of a power struggle with the president.

LONDON - Prime Minister Gordon Brown held the first Cabinet meeting outside London in nearly 90 years on Monday, seeking to revive his flagging political fortunes amid a steepening economic downtown.

MADRID, Spain - African immigrants clashed with Spanish police in a second night of violence triggered by the killing of a Senegalese man in an apparent drug dispute, the Interior Ministry said Monday.

LONDON - Parts of Britain are mopping up after a weekend of storms and flooding that has been blamed for six deaths.

GENEVA - It has been called an Alice in Wonderland investigation into the makeup of the universe — or dangerous tampering with nature that could spell doomsday.

PARIS - He's not known for his diplomatic graces, but blunt-talking French President Nicolas Sarkozy looks like Europe's best bet for making peace between Russia and Georgia.

HAMBURG, Germany - For Peter Tamm, the passion that launched a thousand ships — and Hamburg's newest museum along the port city's old docks — began with a gift from his mother in 1934.

CERNOBBIO, Italy - Vice President Dick Cheney renewed his call for cooperation between Europe and Washington over the Georgia crisis, Italy's foreign minister said Sunday.

MADRID, Spain - Spain's labor minister has backtracked from a much criticized proposal to drastically slash the number of work visas available to migrant workers.

VIENNA, Austria - Nations that supply nuclear material and technology overcame fierce obstacles Saturday and approved a landmark U.S. plan to engage in atomic trade with India — a deal that reverses more than three decades of American policy.

MOSCOW - President Dmitry Medvedev said Saturday the war with Georgia has shown the world that "Russia is a nation to be reckoned with" — his most aggressive comments to date on the conflict with Russia's southern neighbor.

UNITED NATIONS - A key Czech leader said Friday that a resurgent Russia has begun testing the West and warned that Ukraine's strategic Crimea peninsula could become a target.

DARMSTADT, Germany - The Rosetta deep space probe successfully passed close to an asteroid 250 million miles from Earth, the European Space Agency said Friday night.

ABOARD A HIGH-SPEED TRAIN, France - The chilled champagne flowed before midday on a high-speed train that whisked the cream of Europe's diplomats to a two-day brainstorming session in the south of France.

MADRID, Spain - Spanish police have arrested a suspected Colombian drug trafficker listed among the most wanted by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, the police force said in a statement Friday.

Issues dividing neighbors Armenia and Turkey:

ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey and Armenia are hoping soccer diplomacy will help them overcome decades of antagonism rooted in Ottoman-era massacres of Armenians that many historians call a genocide.

MINSK, Belarus - The U.S. administration has suspended some economic sanctions against this former Soviet nation, the U.S. Embassy said Friday.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Iran has reportedly sentenced four female activists to six months in prison for writings demanding equality for women, a move denounced Friday by Sweden, which awarded a human rights prize to one of the activists earlier this year.

AVIGNON, France - European Union nations called for an international probe Friday to find out which country should shoulder responsibility for starting the conflict between Georgia and Russia.

ROME - The world will mark the first anniversary of the death of Luciano Pavarotti with a series of concerts, an exhibit and other events, organizers and his family announced Friday.

ROME - Mila Schoen, an Italian designer of elegant, impeccably tailored clothes, died early Friday at her villa in northern Italy at the age of 91.

CERNOBBIO, Italy - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas pledged Friday to try to reach a final status peace agreement with Israel by the end of the year — but he admitted the goal, set by U.S. President George W. Bush, might not be achieved.

EDINBURGH, Scotland - The sound of bagpipes has fallen victim to frosty relations between the West and Russia. British officials have banned three military bands from attending a musical parade in Moscow.

KIEV, Ukraine - U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney has pledged U.S. support for Ukraine following last month's war between neighboring Russia and Georgia.

MOSCOW - The Russian Foreign Ministry says Russia plans no military actions in response to the increased presence of U.S. ships in the Black Sea.