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Mar. 11, 2024, 10:54 AM ET (AP)
Spanish and European officials mark the 20th anniversary of the Madrid train bombings in 2004
Mar. 11, 2024, 10:22 AM ET (AP)
The first-ever European climate risk assessment finds a continent unprepared for growing extremes
Mar. 10, 2024, 10:37 PM ET (AP)
Portugal is in suspense after an election produces no clear winner and a surging populist party
Mar. 9, 2024, 7:55 AM ET (AP)
Poland's foreign minister says the presence of NATO troops in Ukraine is 'not unthinkable'
Mar. 8, 2024, 4:43 PM ET (AP)
France enshrines abortion as a constitutional right as the world marks International Women's Day
Europe, second smallest of the world’s continents, composed of the westward-projecting peninsulas of Eurasia (the great landmass that it shares with Asia) and occupying nearly one-fifteenth of the world’s total land area. It is bordered on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the west by the Atlantic Ocean, and on the south (west to east) by the Mediterranean Sea, the Black Sea, the Kuma-Manych Depression, and the Caspian Sea. The continent’s eastern boundary (north to south) runs along the Ural Mountains and then roughly southwest along the Emba (Zhem) River, terminating at the northern Caspian coast. Europe’s largest islands ...(100 of 20355 words)