Eurozone

Budget Battles

  • East Ukraine militants confirm they are detaining U.S. reporter

    By Reuters

    SLAVIANSK, Ukraine (Reuters) - Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday confirmed they are detaining a U.S. journalist working with Vice News. The self-declared separatist mayor of...

  • U.S., euro zone activity up; China decline slows

    U.S., euro zone activity up; China decline slows

    By Rodrigo Campos and Jonathan Cable, Reuters

    NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - The U.S. manufacturing sector expanded in April and the euro zone private sector started the second quarter on its strongest footing since 2011, while the pace of decline...

  • Ukraine leader urges crackdown as peace eludes east

    By Aleksandar Vasovic and Alissa de Carbonnel, Reuters

    SLAVIANSK/DONETSK, Ukraine (Reuters) - Ukraine's acting president accused Russia of aiding "terrorists" who killed a politician from his own party, urging a crackdown in the east on Tuesday that...

  • U.S. to send 600 troops to Eastern Europe to reassure allies

    By Phil Stewart and David Alexander, Reuters

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is sending about 600 soldiers to Poland and the three Baltic states for infantry exercises, the Pentagon said on Tuesday, one of its highest-profile steps yet...

  • Ukraine forces kill up to five rebels; Russia starts drill near border

    Ukraine forces kill up to five rebels; Russia starts drill near border

    By Aleksandar Vasovic and Alexei Anishchuk, Reuters

    SLAVIANSK, Ukraine/ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Ukrainian forces killed up to five pro-Moscow rebels on Thursday as they closed in on the separatists' military stronghold in the east, and Russia...