LUHANSKE, Ukraine — Intense artillery exchanges between Ukrainian government forces and Russian-backed separatists are persisting around a strategic town in eastern Ukraine — fighting that threatens to dash a cease-fire deal brokered by European leaders last week. 

DENMARK-SHOOTINGS

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Two men suspected of helping the gunman behind the deadly attacks in Copenhagen are facing a court hearing as Danes mourn the victims of a shooting spree that authorities said may have been inspired by last month's terror attacks in Paris. 

EUROPE-UKRAINE-RUSSIA

BRUSSELS— The European Union has added 19 more individuals, including a Russian deputy minister of defense, on its sanctions list for their actions linked to the fighting in eastern Ukraine. 

EUROPE-JEWS

PARIS — Faced with images of overturned tombstones and yet another deadly attack at a European Jewish site, French leaders are countering calls from the Israeli prime minister for a mass immigration with their own plea to the Jewish community. 

GREECE-BAILOUT

BRUSSELS — Greece's radical left government and its European creditors are heading into new talks on the debt-heavy country's stuttering bailout program, but expectations are low despite a fast-approaching deadline for some kind of deal. 

FRANCE-STRAUSS-KAHN

PARIS — Dominique Strauss-Kahn has testified to having orgies while he was managing the world financial crisis, to being "rough" with his sexual "conquests," and to needing sex with exceptional frequency. But no obvious evidence has emerged during a prostitution trial in northern France that he did anything illegal. As the trial enters its third and final week, it is looking increasingly likely that the onetime presidential contender will walk away with a clean criminal record.