Tiny Latvia, home to 2 million inhabitants, inherits the rotating presidency of the European Union on Jan. 1, 2015 — one year after adopting the euro as its official currency.
As Typhoon Hagupit closed in on the Philippines in early December with maximum sustained winds of 160 miles per hour, it was an eerie déjà vu for Jose L. Cuisia
To help repel the territorial advances of the so-called Islamic State, the United States has sought out an old ally in Saudi Arabia. But analysts say Riyadh and Washington see
It was two years ago that Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law a ban on the adoption of Russian children by U.S. citizens, a prohibition that remains in effect
AFGHANISTAN April 28: Victory of Mujahideen ANDORRA April 3: Good Friday April 5: Easter April 6: Easter Monday ANGOLA April 24: Peace and National Reconciliation Day ANTIGUA and BARBUDA April
Foreign embassies in Washington are often adorned with statues, monuments and memorials honoring their countries’ most important heroes, and now the German Embassy has one too: a three-ton, original concrete
January 2015 There were no appointments this month.