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A central fund for feeding the poor of Europe has been cut back, because of a legal ruling on how it should operate … while a survey of the EU population finds that rich or poor, European people are highly concerned about Mother Earth. … Read More »
All votes tallied; Italians on Sunday (12.6.11) voted down referendum proposals from the Berlusconi government in a strong turnout (57%), and by very wide margins – around 95%. … Read More »
Russian investigators have charged the suspect detained a week ago in Chechnya, Rustam Makhmudov, with the murder of the investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya (picture). … Read More »
Another fugitive linked to wholesale political murders, the Serb military figure Ratko Mladic, has been caught (at a village in Northern Serbia, 26.5.11) , three weeks after the death of the terrorist Osama Bin Laden.
Mladic had been wanted by the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia, at The Hague, for 16 years. … Read More »
A seemingly odd group of ten countries, one of them Australia, has launched a fresh move to try to curtail nuclear armament, at a gathering of their Foreign Ministers in Berlin.
Around the corner, in the German capital, protesters were gearing up for their annual May Day parades, along with counterparts in many other German cities; some fighting had already started in Hamburg between left-wing and extreme right groups; and the police grabbed three men, at Dusseldorf and Bochum, charging them with preparing a terrorist attack. … Read More »
Over 50000 protesters were out on Saturday in Belgrade, backing demands from the nationalist opposition for an early resignation by the Serbian government.
Similar large numbers were appearing on the streets of Zagreb in Croatia, decrying the conviction of two former Generals at The Hague, for war crimes. … Read More »
Fifty years after a man first went into space, science was battling with the danger of a busted nuclear plant; thoughts of terror still lurked in Northern Ireland; bans were imposed on burkas, and the country of Iran; accusations followed in the awful aftermath of the subway bombing in Minsk, and one of London’s most egregiously intrusive tabloid newspapers, has had to say “sorry”.