Alexander Smith

LONDON — Even before the extraordinary Oval Office bust-up between presidents Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy, relations between Washington and Europe were fraying dramatically. Now — after Friday’s diplomatic implosion between Trump, Zelenskyy and Vice President JD Vance — it’s

A deal giving the United States access to Ukraine’s critical and rare-earth minerals is “at the 99 yard line with one inch to go,” a senior administration official engaged in the negotiations told NBC News. According to reports in the

BERLIN — Polls are open across Germany as the world’s third largest economy chooses a new leader to guide it through an era of febrile immigration debates and souring relations with Washington. The vote is unusually dramatic for Europe’s most

BERLIN — German elections usually pride themselves on being reliably boring. Not so this time. The world’s third largest economy goes to the polls Sunday under the shadow of unusually brusque interventions from the Trump administration in support of the

A major natural gas pipeline supplying Russian energy to Europe ran dry Wednesday after Ukraine stopped Moscow’s six-decade supply in the hopes of hurting its invader financially. The planned move marks the end of an era in which many European

“I was not surprised by Trump’s win,” he told NBC News. Around the world, “governments are being overturned on the same issue — the cost of living.” Similar forces were at work in Japan, which experienced decades of economic stagnation