Europe

Given its mesmerizing beauty, it is little wonder that Kamchatka attracts visitors, but the number that it can support is now the focus of an intense debate because a Russian tycoon wants to erect a tourist village. Sold as an “Eco-park,” it would offer summer and winter sports, including walks …

WILHELMSHAVEN, Germany — A jetty here juts out nearly a mile into the Wadden Sea from Germany’s low-lying northern coast. Now used by a chemical plant, the pier could become the site of the country’s first liquefied natural gas terminal. Wilhelmshaven, a port city of about 80,000 people founded as …

BRUSSELS — One official wore blackface. Another could not answer basic questions about his portfolio. A third has been accused of misusing public funds while in office, and is still being investigated. Disgraced politicians? Hardly. All three are likely to be in charge of major policy areas across Europe for …

The chase took them to the dark blue waters off southern Spain: three officers of the national police, pursuing four people suspected of trafficking drugs. The police were piloting a narrow boat, and their prey was an even smaller vessel, according to a statement Friday from the Guardia Civil, the …

Two decades after Kosovo was racked by war, and a decade after it declared independence from neighboring Serbia, which refuses to recognize it as a state, the small Balkans country is holding its fourth parliamentary elections. The choices are stark: Voters in the nation of 1.8 million have the option …

(Bankers cannot, though, buy dinner for Mr. McDonnell, who has protected his abstemious reputation — and the party’s anti-elite bona fides — by insisting on “tea and biscuits, nothing else,” Lord Kerslake said. That is a contrast with the “prawn cocktail offensive” that a more corporate Labour Party waged under …

LISBON — The leader of the Socialist Party in Portugal, António Costa, lost an election four years ago but ended up becoming prime minister anyway after persuading two smaller left-wing parties to back him. At the time, the alliance was ridiculed as a “geringonça,” or “contraption,” that his opponents said …

PARIS — The dozens of religious-themed text messages the killer exchanged with his wife shortly before slashing to death four colleagues at Paris Police Headquarters this week suggested he adhered to a “radical vision of Islam,” France’s antiterrorism prosecutor said on Saturday. The prosecutor, Jean-François Ricard, said at a news …

KIEV, Ukraine — As soon as he got the invitation from Rudolph W. Giuliani, President Trump’s personal lawyer, it was abundantly clear to him what Mr. Trump’s allies were after. “I understood very well what would interest them,” Yuriy Lutsenko, Ukraine’s recently fired prosecutor general, said in an extensive interview …

LONDON — Prince Harry has started legal proceedings against the owners of two British tabloids over accusations that they hacked his phones, Buckingham Palace confirmed on Friday, opening a new front in a remarkable campaign against the British press. Coming at the end of a 10-day royal tour of southern …