Provides the latest RSS feeds for Europe News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Europe News.net http://www.europenews.net/index.php/cat/88176adfdf246af5/ en-us Mon, 20 May 2013 16:48:40 -0400 Mon, 20 May 2013 16:48:40 -0400 30 White men and women of European descent inherit common foot disorders, such as bunions (hallux valgus) and lesser toe deformities, including hammer or claw toe, a new study has revealed. Findings from the Framingham Foot Study is the first to estimate the heritability of foot disorders in humans. Previous studies show that as many as 60 percent of older adults have foot disorders which may ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214626787/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 04:40:03 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214626787/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Former World Cup winner and Real Madrid star Roberto Carlos has agreed to coach Turkish Super League's Sivasspor club. Sivasspor officials announced that they had offered the coaching job to the Brazilian after former coach Riza Calimbay called it quits, reports Xinhua. Carlos, 40, reportedly accepted the offer after consulting with friends from his time with Fenerbahce. Carlos is currently the ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214624025/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 01:30:01 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214624025/scat/88176adfdf246af5 To promote India as a " Filming Destination", Union Tourism Minister K Chiranjeevi will inaugurate incredible India exhibition at the 66th Cannes film festival in France today. The joint participation of the Ministry of Tourism and Ministry of Information and Broadcasting at the festival is consequent to their entering into a Memorandum of Understanding to promote Cinema of India as a sub brand ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214623806/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 01:20:01 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214623806/scat/88176adfdf246af5 The European Union (EU) has appealed to Russia not to introduce a law banning so-called "gay propaganda" . Russia's lower house of parliament, the State Duma, intends to pass a law by the end of the current session (mid-July) banning dissemination of information among minors promoting homosexuality. Amendments will be made May 26-27, after which a working group will compile the draft law along ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214622673/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Sun, 19 May 2013 23:00:01 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214622673/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Tunisian authorities say a street battle between radical Islamists and police has killed one Islamist protester on the outskirts of the capital, Tunis. Authorities said the man, in his late 20s, died of injuries sustained in Sunday's fighting in the Etadhamen district. The radical activists, also known as Salafists, threw stones at Tunisian police to protest a government ban on their annual ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214619477/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Sun, 19 May 2013 18:15:03 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214619477/scat/88176adfdf246af5 The United States said the right to global religious freedom was challenged last year, with governments often creating a "climate of intolerance" leading to hatred and violence. In an annual report, the State Department said Monday government officials worldwide are often allowed to act with impunity while violating the religious rights of their countrymen. It said there often is ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214639867/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 15:17:46 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214639867/scat/88176adfdf246af5 NAIROBI -- Police in Uganda's capital have closed down the offices of the Daily Monitor. According to the Daily Monitor's senior correspondent, police have declared the premises of their publication a crime scene and are doing a thorough search of the building. Earlier this month, the Daily Monitor published a series of stories about Uganda's coordinator of intelligence ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214639994/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 15:17:46 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214639994/scat/88176adfdf246af5 MOSCOW -- Russian billionaire Alexander Lebedev has pleaded not guilty to charges of hooliganism motivated by political hatred. Lebedev says that he is being targeted by Russian President Vladimir Putin because Putin believes he is funding the opposition. Alexander Lebedev, co-owner of Novaya Gazeta, Russia's leading opposition newspaper, went on trial Monday in a Moscow court. Lebedev ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214640210/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 15:17:46 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214640210/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Zach Champion walks through the rubble of his mobile home looking for his belongings, in the Steelman Estates Mobile Home Park, destroyed in Sunday's tornado, near Shawnee, Oklahoma, May 20, ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214640212/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 15:17:45 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214640212/scat/88176adfdf246af5 The protracted fighting in Syria is not happening within a bubble, amid reports of clandestine support for the Bashar al Assad regime from Hezbollah, Iran and Russia, and an ongoing effort to establish an international peace ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214640234/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 15:16:46 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214640234/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Jos Mourinho will leave Real Madrid CF at the end of the season after a three-year tenure that brought a record-breaking Liga campaign and three UEFA Champions League ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214640235/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 15:16:21 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214640235/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Reuters © European Energy Commissioner Gunther Oettinger addresses a news conference at the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels June 6, 2012. REUTERS/Laurent ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214640236/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 15:16:19 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214640236/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Cameron Hanley returned to the Grand Prix winner's podium in Germany after a near two-year absence caused by a freak accident to his knee that resulted in a total of 17 operations. Competing at the five-star Riders' Tour Grand Prix in Wiesbaden, the Mayo-born rider and the 10-year-old gelding Antello Z collected €19,000 after seeing off a strong international challenge in the ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214640237/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 15:12:52 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214640237/scat/88176adfdf246af5 MOSCOW--At least eight people were killed and more than a dozen injured on Monday in twin car blasts outside a court building in the southern Russian city of Makhachkala in the restless region of ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214640238/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 15:03:13 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214640238/scat/88176adfdf246af5 MADRID--Many duped savers at Spanish lender Bankia are shunning a state-supervised compensation scheme in favor of expensive lawsuits, prolonging a misselling scandal and complicating efforts to restore faith in the banking ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214639978/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 15:03:07 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214639978/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Corporate event planner ITE Group PLC reported a 15-percent fall in first-half profit, hurt by rising overhead costs and the absence of two key biennial events in ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214640239/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 15:03:05 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214640239/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Violence Rioters took to the streets of a Stockholm neighborhood on Sunday, torching cars and throwing stones at police. Officers reportedly called residents "monkeys" and other derogatory terms as they protested against a recent police shooting. Between 60 to 100 people - most of them young men - took part in the riots which began around 10pm local time in the Stockholm district of ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214640005/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 14:57:53 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214640005/scat/88176adfdf246af5 MOSCOW, May 20 (R-Sport) - Anzhi Makhachkala cemented a best-ever third place in the Russian Premier League on Monday after Samuel Eto'o's goal gave Guus Hiddink's side a 2-1 win over Lokomotiv Moscow. The Cameroonian forward nodded home at the back post on 74 minutes to give the billionaire-backed side three points that take them out of range of Spartak Moscow and FC Kuban, the ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214640240/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 14:55:44 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214640240/scat/88176adfdf246af5 A divorced British father with a history of drunkenness and domestic violence was formally accused of the murder of his two children, who were found with their throats cut in his apartment in southern ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214639809/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 14:55:24 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214639809/scat/88176adfdf246af5 series of 56 images shortly thereafter. NASA stitched the pictures together into one long strip, which you can tour in the video above. As always, satellite images testify to the wonder of the biosphere. This particular set of pictures, though, is a simple meditation on the diversity of conditions on Earth, and the mark that humanity has left on the ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214640223/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 14:45:52 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214640223/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Pope Francis met on May 18 with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, for a discussion of European political, economic, and especially religious affairs. A brief Vatican statement released after the meeting said that special emphasis had been placed on "the protection of human rights, the persecution of Christians, religious freedom, and international collaboration for the promotion of ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214640243/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 14:44:31 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214640243/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Annual Turkish Day Parade and Festival organized in New York NEW YORK - Turkish flag was raised at Wall Street in New York within the scope of annual Turkish Day organized by Federation of Turkish American Associations (FTAA).Turkey's United Nations (UN) Permanent Representative Halit Cevik, Turkish Consul General in New York Levent Bilgen, FTAA Director Ali Cinar, as well as politicians ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214640244/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 14:38:57 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214640244/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Turkey's EU Minister Egemen Bagis said Turkish parade was a cultural show of power NEW YORK - Turkey's EU Minister and Chief Negotiator Egemen Bagis said, " Turkish Day Parade is a signal of Turkey's power, a cultural show of power." Federation of Turkish American Associations (FTAA) organized the 32thTurkish Day Parade in New York.Addressing the crowd after the parade, ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214640074/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 14:38:57 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214640074/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Turkish Minister of Youth and Sports Kilic gives unity message at Anitkabir ANKARA - Turkish Minister of Youth and Sports Suat Kilic visited the Founder of the Republic of Turkey Mustafa Kemal Ataturk's Mausoleum-Anitkabir on the occasion of May 19 Commemoration of Ataturk,Youth and Sports Day.Kilic laid a wreath on Ataturk's Mausoleum, and observed a minute of silence in his ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214640245/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 14:38:55 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214640245/scat/88176adfdf246af5 About 100 vehicles were set ablaze in a riot in a suburb of Stockholm, Sweden, in what a group claims was a reaction to the police shooting of an elderly man. A car set on fire in a nearby garage caused about 50 people to be evacuated from their apartment building, the Swedish news agency TT reported Monday. Police said they were met by about 50 to 60 youths throwing stones when they responded ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214639940/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 14:36:08 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214639940/scat/88176adfdf246af5 The relationship between France and Germany undergirds postwar Europe - and some worry the countries' increased sniping over economic woes is threatening the EU's ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214640190/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 14:33:25 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214640190/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Russian officials said Monday that security forces killed two suspected militants and detained another, in a special operation near Moscow that thwarted a terrorist attack on the ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214638886/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 14:02:21 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214638886/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Coffee lovers have another reason to rejoice as a new study claims that regular consumption of the popular beverage can reduce the risk of a rare but serious liver disease. According ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214638865/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 14:02:21 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214638865/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON -- Turkey and the United States have conducted a review of defense and military cooperation. The two countries discussed existing and new projects during a meeting in Washington on May 17 between Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and his Turkish counterpart, Defense Minister Ismet Yilmaz. Officials said the meeting was dominated by the war in Syria, ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214638896/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 14:02:04 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214638896/scat/88176adfdf246af5 BERLIN ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214640241/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 14:00:48 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214640241/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Milan Vilotic struck the decisive penalty in the Swiss Cup final after FC Basel 1983 had twice struck the woodwork as Grasshopper Club ended a ten-year wait for a ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214638897/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 14:00:26 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214638897/scat/88176adfdf246af5 MAKHACHKALA, Russia -; Two bombs exploded outside a court building in Russia's restive province of Dagestan on Monday, killing at least four people and wounding dozens of others, officials ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214638834/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 13:57:34 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214638834/scat/88176adfdf246af5 The three racism incidents have underlined Italy's serious problem with discrimination in football, which shows no sign of being eradicated despite renewed efforts from the ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214638898/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 13:56:55 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214638898/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Moscow, May 20 (Prensa Latina) Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev, discounted an economic crisis in Russia similar to that of 2008, due to the world economic situation, but called for overcoming the stagnation of recent months by pushing for increased growth. Medvedev expressed his certainty that the country will avoid an economic recession like the one that took place from 2008 to 2009, when ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214638899/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 13:56:00 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214638899/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Hong Kong -- The Obama administration and the European Union have decided to negotiate settlements with China in the world's largest anti-dumping and anti-subsidy trade cases involving China's roughly $30 billion a year in solar panel shipments to the West, officials and trade advisers in Beijing, Brussels and Washington ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214638536/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 13:54:42 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214638536/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Russia's Levada Center, an independent polling agency, has been forced to stop work unless it registers as a "foreign agent" as required by a restrictive new law aimed at non-governmental organizations ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214638901/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 13:49:56 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214638901/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Russian security services said Monday they had foiled a terror attack on Moscow, killing two of the plotters and arresting another. The National Anti-Terror Committee said all three of the men were ethnic Russians. ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214638902/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 13:49:47 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214638902/scat/88176adfdf246af5 A hot-air balloon flying over Cappadocia, a tourist destination in central Turkey, crashed after colliding with another balloon on Monday, killing a Brazilian passenger and injuring 24 other people, the Anatolian news agency said. ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214638903/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 13:49:46 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214638903/scat/88176adfdf246af5 MOSCOW, May 20 (RIA Novosti) - Russia has delivered a first batch of 450 Lada cars to Venezuela, said Sergei Goreslavsky, head of Russian Technologies (Rostec) high-tech state corporation's international economic cooperation department. Russia's biggest automaker AvtoVAZ, which is part of Rostec, agreed a deal with Venezuela in April 2010 for construction of a Lada assembly plant there ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214638606/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 13:42:03 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214638606/scat/88176adfdf246af5 news ) outperforms, IBEX lags on technical signals * Miners drag as metal prices weaken By Alistair Smout LONDON, May 20 (Reuters) - European shares reached new five-year peaks on Monday, supported by strength in the autos and travel sector, where budget airline Ryanair's stock hit a record high on the back of strong earnings. Travel and leisure stocks gained 1.1 percent, led by a ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214638904/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 13:39:42 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214638904/scat/88176adfdf246af5 The European Commission is poised to launch an anti-dumping probe against Chinese mobile companies Huawei and ZTE, opening a second front in its escalating trade clash with ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214638905/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 13:39:40 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214638905/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Kosovo if the nations show progress in implementing their April 19 political agreement. It's important "that an implementation agreement is found and that the first achievable implementation steps are made," German Foreign ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214638906/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 13:39:39 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214638906/scat/88176adfdf246af5 There are at least two fail-safe ways to get yourself kicked out of Russia, apparently. One way is getting caught spying on Russia. The other way is being asked to ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214638907/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 13:36:53 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214638907/scat/88176adfdf246af5 By Alexandra Sandacz Impunity Watch Reporter, Europe MOSCOW, Russia - On Monday, two car bombs, which occurred in Russia’s North Caucasus region, killed eight people and left 20 injured. Officials believe the incident was aimed towards law enforcement officers because the explosion occurred outside a local marshal’s ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214638912/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 13:31:44 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214638912/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Turkish dailies covered on Monday the celebrations of May 19, the Commemoration of Ataturk Youth and Sports Day, Turkish PM`s visit to Silicon Valley and the death of an air cameraman Ozturk during an airshow ANKARA - The Anadolu Agency does not verify these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.All Turkish dailies covered the celebrations of May 19, the beginning of Turkish War of ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214638913/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 13:25:29 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214638913/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Turkey has begun 5th Mavi Marmara flotilla trial of 4 top Israeli commanders blamed for a deadly 2010 clash on a Turkish flotilla ship carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza ISTANBUL - A Turkish court has launched on Monday fifth trial of Mavi Marmara flotilla trial of four top Israeli commanders accused of a deadly 2010 raid on a Turkish flotilla ship carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza.The accused ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214638697/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 13:25:29 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214638697/scat/88176adfdf246af5 * FTSEurofirst 300 up 0.3 percent* Travel and autos the top sectoral gainers* DAX outperforms, IBEX lags on technical signals* Miners drag as metal prices weakenBy Alistair SmoutLONDON, May 20 (Reuters) - European shares reached ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214638850/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 13:23:14 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214638850/scat/88176adfdf246af5 (Reuters) - AS Roma and Inter Milan have been fined 50,000 euros after fans chanted racist abuse on the final day of Serie A on Sunday, hours before Fiorentina supporters heckled AC Milan's black striker Mario Balotelli. The three racism incidents have underlined Italy's serious problem with discrimination in football, which shows no sign of being eradicated despite renewed efforts from ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214638900/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 13:17:35 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214638900/scat/88176adfdf246af5 A BRITISH man is to face charges over the killing of his two children in France, prosecutors say. The 48-year-old man admitted to having slit the throats of his daughter, aged five and his 10-year-old son, the prosecutors said, adding there was currently no evidence of premeditated murder. The man's ex-wife found him covered in blood on the street when she went to pick up the children from ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214638910/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 13:08:13 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214638910/scat/88176adfdf246af5 MOSCOW ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214638477/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 13:06:04 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214638477/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon May 20, 2013 1:04pm EDT By Carlos Ruano MADRID May 20 (Reuters) - Spanish department store El Corte Ingles, the country's largest privately held company, said on Monday it had started talks to restructure debt totalling 5 billion euros ($6.43 billion). El Corte Ingles, one of Spain's largest employers and most venerable retailers, has been hit by a tough economic downturn and been ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214639601/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 13:04:27 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214639601/scat/88176adfdf246af5 A Pakistani court has granted bail to former military ruler Pervez Musharraf in a case related to the murder of former prime minister Benazir ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214637456/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:55:47 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214637456/scat/88176adfdf246af5 President Barack Obama's invitation to his Burmese counterpart to meet at the White House marks a rapid diplomatic boost for Thein Sein, whom the United States removed from a blacklist of foreign officials denied entry to the country only last year. Mr. Obama also rewarded Burma's reform efforts by making the first visit to that nation by a sitting U.S. president last November. ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214637457/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:55:47 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214637457/scat/88176adfdf246af5 An armored vehicle of of the Congolese army, part of the Central African Multinational Force is parked in front of a bank in central Bangui on April 3, ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214637458/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:55:46 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214637458/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Scientists say a new geologic epoch has begun whereby humans are causing major damage to global water systems. They warn of a planetary transformation comparable to the retreat of the glaciers more than 11-thousand years ago. Scientists are meeting in Bonn, Germany this week (5/21-24) to discuss what can be done about it. to De Capua report on Anthropocene epoch While some still debate ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214637109/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:55:45 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214637109/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Germany's federal reserve Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann stands beside the door of a giant safe as he poses for a photograph at the money museum next to the Bundesbank headquarters, in Frankfurt, Germany, May 17, ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214637197/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:55:44 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214637197/scat/88176adfdf246af5 The National Anti-Terrorist Committee said Monday in a statement that one of its special forces was lightly wounded in the operation in the Moscow suburb of Orekhovo-Zuevo.It said the militants were Russian citizens who had received training in Pakistan.It was not clear when the operation took place and no further information was immediately available.Russian special forces regularly announce ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214637505/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:55:14 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214637505/scat/88176adfdf246af5 A SWEDISH co-founder of file-sharing website The Pirate Bay has gone on trial, charged with hacking and stealing data from an IT services company with ties to the Swedish tax authority and other government agencies. Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and a 36-year-old man from central Sweden denied the charges of stealing data from Logica, a company that handled classified personal records for the ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214638911/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:52:13 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214638911/scat/88176adfdf246af5 * No crude extraction tax, fuel oil export duty increase * Excise tax rise lower than proposed By Darya Korsunskaya MOSCOW, May 20 (Reuters) - Russia's Finance Ministry has decided not to push forward a proposal to increase a tax on crude oil production, Deputy Minister Sergei Shatalov said, after oil companies protested that higher taxes would lead to a drop in output. He also said the ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214638908/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:51:14 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214638908/scat/88176adfdf246af5 MADRID -; Spain's Defense Ministry says three soldiers have died and two others have been injured in an explosion at an army bomb disposal unit in southern ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214637415/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:51:10 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214637415/scat/88176adfdf246af5 MOSCOW -; Russia's counter-terrorism agency says it killed two militants it believes were planning a terrorist act in Moscow and detained a ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214637417/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:51:07 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214637417/scat/88176adfdf246af5 United Nations, May 20 (Prensa Latina) The United Nations (UN) Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues begins its 12th session today, analyzing the political, economic, social and cultural problems that affect those communities. The agenda of this year's meeting of the organization created in June, 2000 by the UN Economic and Social Council, will devote special attention to the situation of ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214637507/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:49:34 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214637507/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Moscow, May 20 (Prensa Latina) Security forces keep surrounded the Majashkalá zone, autonomous Russian republic of Dagestan, North Caucasus, where the explosion of two car bombs today left a preliminary balance of eight dead and 30 injured, officials said. The detonation of the first vehicle, apparently, was a trap to lure law enforcement representatives, and after their arrival on the ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214637506/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:49:34 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214637506/scat/88176adfdf246af5 The restoration of statehood and the economy in Bulgaria are the two top priorities defined for the country's new parliament by liberal Movement for Rights and Freedoms party, said leader Lyutvi Mestan. "After restoring statehood and democracy in Bulgaria, the priority of priorities is to turn the state from a racketeer into a partner of the business sector," said Mestan at the ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214637508/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:48:14 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214637508/scat/88176adfdf246af5 will increase the frequency of its services to Liverpool, England, in June.The Jork Ruler and Doris Schepers vessels will join the Margareta B to provide an express twice-weekly connection between Rotterdam and Liverpool. The Jork Ruler service will also service Dublin, while the Doris Schepers and Margareta B will serve Belfast, Ireland.The upgrade comes a year after BG Freight launched its ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214637330/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:45:49 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214637330/scat/88176adfdf246af5 May 20 - Zena Wooldridge, former chair of England Squash, has been elected as the new President of the European Squash Federation (ESF) to become the second female leader in the continental governing body's 40-year history. Wooldridge (pictured top), who is also the sport's technical delegate at the International University Sports Federation (FISU), was the youngest female England ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214637509/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:45:11 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214637509/scat/88176adfdf246af5 "China is more concerned about the peace and security of the Pacific Ocean than any other country in the world. And turning it into a 'peaceful' ocean constitutes China's greatest hope."Peng Guangqian, an expert on Chinese military and strategic issues,commenting on the Pacific security situation at the Chahar China-Europe Dialogue, quoted by People.com.cn on ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214637418/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:44:17 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214637418/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Politics Aleksey Kudrin, addressing the State Duma, stated that the development of Russia's political system is "lagging behind the challenges of the time and doesn't provide the mechanisms to build up the country's modernization." According to the former financial minister "even if we roll up our sleeves right now, we'll have to sweat our guts out for three ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214637130/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:36:58 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214637130/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Russia 'Golden parachutes' for senior managers of state corporations and companies with state participation may be significantly cut as soon as in August, 2013. President Putin earlier requested that the government come up with new legislation on the matter. However, MPs from the United Russia party beat the government to it, and are already expected to make amendments to ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214637511/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:36:56 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214637511/scat/88176adfdf246af5 North Korea's latest missile tests and hopes that a meeting of intermediaries on the North Korean nuclear issue settlement will be held in the nearest future, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday. South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported earlier in the day that North Korea launched another two short-range missiles into the Sea of Japan on Monday, marking the third ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214637512/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:35:31 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214637512/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Russia has applied to Interpol to monitor the travel and whereabouts of a British hedge fund boss wanted by Moscow who is at the heart of a diplomatic stand-off over the alleged killing of whistle-blowing lawyer Sergei ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214636856/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:35:06 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214636856/scat/88176adfdf246af5 MAKHACHKALA, Russia -- An official says two explosions have occurred outside a court building in Russia's restive province of Dagestan, killing at least three people and wounding about a dozen.The first was caused by a car bomb and the second occurred after police arrived on the scene in Makhachakala, the provincial capital, according to Interior Ministry spokesman Vyacheslav Gasanov.He says ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214637513/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:34:14 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214637513/scat/88176adfdf246af5 European stock markets rose in muted holiday trading on Monday amid weak Italian economic data despite a strong start to the new week for Asian equity prices. London's FTSE 100 index of leading shares added 0.48 percent to 6,755.63 points, while in Frankfurt the DAX 30 index set a fresh record high close after climbing 0.69 percent to 8,455.83 points, and in Paris the CAC 40 rose 0.54 ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214637514/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:32:56 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214637514/scat/88176adfdf246af5 EU Battle Heats Up: '50% Chance UK Out in 5 Years' ) "I was concerned with the lessons of history where a persistence of economic weakness forces people to find scapegoats - even, for example, to the rise of ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214637515/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:32:52 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214637515/scat/88176adfdf246af5 LONDON (AP) -- A retired Church of England priest was jailed for 10 years Monday after a jury found him guilty of 36 separate sex offenses against children in the 1960s and ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214637516/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:30:35 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214637516/scat/88176adfdf246af5 EUROPE'S leading stock markets have closed higher, with London's FTSE 100 index of leading shares adding 0.48 per cent to 6755.63 ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214637102/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:27:49 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214637102/scat/88176adfdf246af5 right now in Japan and in Europe. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has embarked on aggressive measures to stimulate Japan's long-moribund economy since he took office in December, and the result so far has been strong growth -- and, perhaps, liftoff after a triple-dip recession. Europe, on the other hand, remains mired in the muck of austerity and economic contraction. To briefly recap ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214637226/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:26:20 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214637226/scat/88176adfdf246af5 MAKHACHKALA, Russia – Two people are dead and at least 20 are injured after two car bombs exploded Monday in Dagestan, in Russia's North Caucasus region, where armed militias are leading an Islamist insurgency. Both blasts were near the headquarters of the court bailiffs and appeared to have been detonated by remote control, a Russian state agency told Reuters. Police cordoned ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214637519/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:26:11 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214637519/scat/88176adfdf246af5 The European Union is to look more closely at hydraulic fracturing – or fracking – and the environmental concerns surrounding the practice, according to the EU’s energy commissioner. Guenther Oettinger told the German newspaper Die Welt it would be ';absolutely right'; to protect areas where there is drinking and ground water. Fracking has taken place in some ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214637453/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:24:50 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214637453/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Russia (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday it is crucial for Syrian opposition envoys to engage in peace talks without setting preconditions, apparently referring to demands for ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214637520/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:24:10 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214637520/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon May 20, 2013 11:58am EDT (Adds CEO comment, background) * Q1 profit boosted by 3.41 bln euro goodwill gain * Non-performing loan ratio up to 31 pct, pre-tax loss at 336 mln eur (Recasts lead, adds detail on Greek economy, company comment) ATHENS, May 20 (Reuters) - Greece's Piraeus Bank said profit surged in the first quarter after a one-off gain on the book value of its Cypriot bank ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214637518/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 11:58:14 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214637518/scat/88176adfdf246af5 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN -- A Pakistani court on Monday granted bail to former army chief and president Pervez Musharraf who has been under house arrest on charges of failing to provide adequate security for former prime minister Benazir Bhutto before her 2007 assassination. Musharraf, who took power in a 1999 coup, returned to Pakistan in March to contest a May 11 general election after nearly ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214635918/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 11:50:26 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214635918/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his visiting Chinese counterpart have agreed to resolve a border dispute and other tensions, as Premier Li Keqiang continues his first trip abroad since taking ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214635920/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 11:50:24 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214635920/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Verena Faisst will miss Thursday's final against Olympique Lyonnais after being diagnosed with glandular fever, "a massive loss" said VfL Wolfsburg coach Ralf ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214635953/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 11:49:02 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214635953/scat/88176adfdf246af5 From a lack of investment to an underdeveloped renewable energy sector, plus competition from American coal: the domestic energy market faces a slew of obstacles. This is driving concerned European groups begin to put the EU under ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214635808/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 11:45:15 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214635808/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Moscow, May 20 (Prensa Latina) Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Serguei Lavrov affirmed today that interference to the country's domestic affairs must not be part of any initiative related to a possible resolution of the Syrian conflict. The matter concerning the future of President Bashar al-Assad and other issues must be resolved by the Syrian people, the minister told the Rossiskaya ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214635954/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 11:44:52 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214635954/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Robert Mueller - 20 May 2013 RAIL passengers searching for love in the Czech capital need look no further than the daily commute as the city makes plans to designate carriages on its underground trains for ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214635956/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 11:40:26 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214635956/scat/88176adfdf246af5 IDG News Service - After being accused of a lack of transparency by an independent watchdog, the European Privacy Association (EPA) has confirmed that Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are backers. The Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), which works to expose privileged access in E.U. policy making, said in a complaint Thursday that the European Privacy Association is working to represent industry ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214635619/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 11:37:05 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214635619/scat/88176adfdf246af5 LONDON | Mon May 20, 2013 11:33am EDT LONDON May 20 (Reuters) - European shares edged to fresh five-year highs on Monday, boosted by strength in German stocks and a travel sector lifted by a surge in Ryanair. Travel and leisure stocks gained 1.1 percent, led by a 6.9 percent jump in Ryanair after it reported expectation-beating earnings for the past year, lifting its shares to a record ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214637517/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 11:33:04 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214637517/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Russia and Peru will sign a contract to upgrade Lima's fleet of Mikoyan MiG-29 Fulcrum fighters by the end of May, Konstantin Biryulin, deputy head of Russia’s Federal Military-Technical Cooperation Service, said on Monday. Belarus sold around twenty of the fighter jets to Peru in 1997. According to defenseindustrydaily.com, Peru signed a contract in 2008 for Russia's UAC MiG to ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214635957/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 11:31:02 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214635957/scat/88176adfdf246af5 NEW YORK and LONDON, May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Monarch Alternative Capital LP, a leading distressed debt investment firm based in New York, today announced the opening of an office in London by its subsidiary Monarch Alternative Capital (Europe) LLP to bolster its investment activities in Europe. Monarch and its portfolio managers have a long history of involvement in Europe, beginning twenty ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214635958/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 11:28:51 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214635958/scat/88176adfdf246af5 PRAGUE (AP) -- Czech President Milos Zeman is being criticized for refusing to grant a university professorship - the nation's top academic title - to a critic of his, allegedly because the man is also a gay rights ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214635960/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 11:26:21 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214635960/scat/88176adfdf246af5 MOSCOW (AP) -- A court in Azerbaijan has convicted and sentenced 10 people for breaching public order following a violent protest against a ban on wearing headscarves in ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214635959/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 11:26:21 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214635959/scat/88176adfdf246af5 HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - The European Union threw its weight behind developing Afghanistan's small but promising private sector this week, in the hope that business can usher in stability and peace once foreign troops leave by the end of next ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214635648/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 11:25:31 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214635648/scat/88176adfdf246af5 I've studied ethics as a branch of philosophy - it's fun. The theory, that is. But it is also vacuous. Worthwhile ethics can only be done with real people in front of you. You only know you've got it right when you would be happy to apply your theory to those you love.Notionally, I was convinced that a loving and compassionate God would not demand of a person extreme and prolonged ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214635916/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 11:22:34 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214635916/scat/88176adfdf246af5 , KSM took German-speaking Europe, Anchor Bay picked up the film for Australia and New Zealand and IPA bought Japanese rights. "We are receiving offers every day" said ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214635848/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 11:22:11 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214635848/scat/88176adfdf246af5 First it was rebel members of parliament, now business leaders have waded into the debate over Britain’s membership of the European Union. Top industry figures have signed a letter in the British Independent newspaper, saying the economic case to stay in Europe is ';overwhelming.'; Virgin founder Richard Branson is among them.The leaders say the UK stands to lose up to 108 ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214635899/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 11:21:08 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214635899/scat/88176adfdf246af5 MAKHACHKALA, Russia - An official says two explosions have occurred outside a court building in Russia's restive province of Dagestan, killing at least three people and wounding about a dozen. The first was caused by a car bomb and the second occurred after police arrived on the scene in Makhachakala, the provincial capital, according to Interior Ministry spokesman Vyacheslav Gasanov. He ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214635962/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 11:20:19 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214635962/scat/88176adfdf246af5 The bodies of two young Dutch brothers whose father committed suicide were found in a drainage pipe near the Rhine River, police in the Netherlands said. The boys -- Ruben, 9, and Julian, 7 -- disappeared May 7 while spending the day with their father, police said. The father, whose name was not reported, committed suicide in the woods near the town of Doorn, investigators said. Police and ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214635754/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 11:13:00 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214635754/scat/88176adfdf246af5 NICE, France ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214635955/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 10:51:39 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214635955/scat/88176adfdf246af5 ATHENS | Mon May 20, 2013 10:49am EDT ATHENS May 20 (Reuters) - Greece's biggest lender National Bank said on Monday it would sell 2.27 billion new shares at a price of 4.29 euros ($5.50) each, as part of its recapitalisation plan. The price is calculated after a 1-for-10 reverse stock split. ($1 = 0.7798 euros) (Reporting by George Georgiopoulos; writing by Harry ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214635961/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 10:49:41 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214635961/scat/88176adfdf246af5 To get best possible experience using our website we recommend that you upgrade to a newer version or other web browser. A list of the most popular web browsers can be found ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214634539/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 10:47:30 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214634539/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Moscow did not want to rush into a new international conference on Syria unprepared and risk an embarrassing failure, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday."It could be a trap to act in a hurry. On May 7 in Moscow (during a visit of US Secretary of State John Kerry), we agreed to initiate that conference only if very thorough preparations were made," Lavrov said in an interview ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214634588/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 10:36:19 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214634588/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Russia E.On Russia, the Russian subsidiary of Germany's E.On power company, will transfer 100% of the net profit the energy company made in 2012, some $583 million into dividends, marking a record for the Russian domestic electricity market. The company has recommended a dividend of 0.29 roubles per share for 2012, worth 18.3 billion roubles ($583 million), General Director Maxim Shirokov ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214634589/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 10:29:31 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214634589/scat/88176adfdf246af5 European Union , saying it was a matter of "when, not if".It is the first time he has been so definite that the negotiations over a new structure for the EU will lead to a fundamental change in the UK-EU relationship, and so require a referendum in line with the Liberal Democrat manifesto, as well as legislation passed by the coalition.Clegg's remarks also isolate Labour as the ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214634590/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 10:25:40 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214634590/scat/88176adfdf246af5 It will be at least three months before liquidity in the euro zone falls to levels at which market rates have shown a tendency to rise, according to traders polled by Reuters on ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214634270/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 10:14:13 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214634270/scat/88176adfdf246af5 WASHINGTON [MENL] -- Russia has delivered to Syria an enhanced variant of acoastal defense system meant to repel any sea-based offensive against the regimePresident Bashar Assad. Officials said the U.S. intelligence community has determined that theKremlin approved and oversaw the deliveries of an upgraded variant of theYakhont coast-to-sea missile in 2013. They said the enhanced missilecontained ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214634591/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 10:09:47 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214634591/scat/88176adfdf246af5 [Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA: In response to question from IMRA if Nitsana Darshan-Leitner plans to file a complaint herself with the police, Shurat HaDin responded that: "There are many victims of the second Intifada who would be willing to file a complaint against him, and indeed this may prove to be the case as a result of this development." ] Shurat HaDin - Israel Law Center ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214634592/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 10:04:36 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214634592/scat/88176adfdf246af5 BERLIN (AP) -- Tensions between Germany and Hungary have flared over remarks by the two countries' leaders, including references to Hitler's occupation of the eastern European country in 1944 and an irritated German government response condemning Hungary's allusion to the Nazi era as "deplorable derailment" on ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214634532/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 10:04:33 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214634532/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Investors may not be worrying quite so much about Greece at the moment but a new political party could change that. The Plan B party supports leaving the euro and returning to the drachma. Hayley Platt asks whether it's likely to do any harm to the country's ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214633411/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 09:41:34 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214633411/scat/88176adfdf246af5 This Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012, photo, shows a sign in front of Yahoo! headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif., Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012. (Marcio Jose Sanchez/The Associated ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214633952/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 09:41:21 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214633952/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Azerbaijani member of jury Fakhriya Khalafova has commented on "zero" points for Russia from Azerbaijan. The statement made by Head of the Public Television of Azerbaijan Jamil Guliyev that Russia was to get a high score from Azerbaijan has caused a great resonance. Head of the Public Television made a statement on the fact of counting votes of Azerbaijani viewers in Russia's ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214633406/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 09:37:13 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214633406/scat/88176adfdf246af5 May 20 - The International Centre for Sport Security (ICSS) has signed an agreement with The European Lotteries that will see the organisations working together to fight match-fixing and betting fraud. The European Lotteries is the umbrella organisation of national lotteries across Europe and ICSS President Mohammed Hanzab (pictured top, right) said the agreement represents a crucial step in ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214633413/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 09:34:14 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214633413/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Other News ) - The European Union has asked its citizens to brace for further economic misery. In a report on European economic prospects released on May 3, the European Commission said that further deterioration is expected to last at least until 2015. But, as every such report says, things will then get ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214633414/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 09:34:11 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214633414/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Eight people were killed by twin blasts in Russia's North Caucasus Monday, law enforcement authorities said.The blasts took place near the court bailiffs service headquarters in Makhachkala, capital city of the Dagestan republic, a spokesperson for Dagestan's top investigative agency told local media."Two cars were blown up one after another. At least eight people were killed. ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214633415/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 09:33:18 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214633415/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Samir Nasri has told French TV that he was "stupid" to have insulted a journalist at Euro 2012, provoking a near year-long exile from international football for the Manchester City ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214633117/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 09:26:35 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214633117/scat/88176adfdf246af5 The target was revealed as the budget carrier brushed off higher fuel costs to post a record annual profit of EUR569 million. The carrier wants to take customers from "legacy" rivals such as British Airways, Lufthansa and Iberia and grow its passenger numbers by more than 50 million a year by 2018. It has about 12 per cent of Europe's short-haul traffic now. Ryanair's post-tax ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214633118/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 09:24:48 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214633118/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Nicola Rizzoli may not be viewed in the same esteem as the world-renowned Pierluigi Collina, chief refereeing officer of Uefa, but the Italian selected to officiate Saturday's Champions League final between Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund has quickly become one of the most respected match officials in the world game. Rizzoli is an architect by day, but it is his reputation as a referee ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214633541/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 09:22:46 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214633541/scat/88176adfdf246af5 View Photo Reuters/Reuters - Egyptian policemen shout slogans from the gates of the main Egyptian crossing point into the Gaza Strip, which has been closed for the third day, in Rafah city, about 350 km (217 miles) ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214633507/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 09:22:37 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214633507/scat/88176adfdf246af5 map of card fraud in Europe that showed most countries experienced a rise in fraud in 2012. For the first time in years, the UK did not have the highest card fraud losses in Europe -- France took its place, with 29 percent of the region's losses, compared to the UK's 27 percent. ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214633416/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 09:22:34 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214633416/scat/88176adfdf246af5 The Euro climbed to an overnight high of 1.2877 as European policy makers talked down the risk of a euro-area breakup, and the single currency may continue to consolidate ahead of the EU meeting on May 22 as the group continues to push for greater fiscal ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214633417/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 09:22:32 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214633417/scat/88176adfdf246af5 LONDON (MarketWatch) - For months, European central bankers have been warning of dislocation between financial markets and the real economy. No one has paid much notice, with equities proceeding to new highs on hopes of ever-more central banking easing, coinciding with a continuing run of poor data confirming the miserable state of the euro-area ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214633109/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 09:16:47 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214633109/scat/88176adfdf246af5 MOSCOW - Russia's only independent polling agency said Monday it may have to close after prosecutors targeted it for "political activity" under a law spearheading President Vladimir Putin's crackdown on civil society. Levada Center published a letter, dated last week, from prosecutors who said its polls and publications are "aimed at shaping public opinion on government ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214633419/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 09:14:02 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214633419/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Russia shows accused U.S. spy heading home But there are still many questions about what he was really doing there. Five days after Russia ordered him to ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214633308/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 09:13:57 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214633308/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Serbian Radical Party supporters burn a EU flag during protest against the visit by German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle to Serbia in Belgrade, Serbia, Monday, May 20, 2013. Several dozen Serb nationalists burned EU and Kosovo flags during a protest. Westerwelle is in the country for a two-day visit. (AP Photo/Darko ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214633420/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 09:13:57 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214633420/scat/88176adfdf246af5 American Ryan Fogle, who was arrested in Russia on charges of spying for the U.S., was spotted at the Moscow airport. He is believed to be headed home. CBS News' Margaret Brennan ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214633309/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 09:13:57 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214633309/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Two hot air balloons collided and one crashed in the Cappadocia region of Turkey Monday, killing a Brazilian tourist and injuring 24 others, officials said. Officials said the balloons struck each other, then one fell the ground near the Ortahisar area of Urgup, Hurriyet Daily News reported. Cappadocia is a tourist destination in the central Turkish province of Nevsehir. Nevsehir Mayor Hasan ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214633616/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 09:07:20 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214633616/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon May 20, 2013 8:56am EDT (Adds details, effects of financial crisis on Hellenic) LONDON May 20 (Reuters) - Hellenic Petroleum, Greece's largest refiner, has issued a tender to buy an 80,000 tonne cargo of Russian Urals crude oil for early June delivery, a trading source said, the first in months as its finances improve. The tender was issued on Friday and closes today. The payment will be ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214633418/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 08:56:18 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214633418/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Fresh fighting has erupted in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo between the army and rebel group M23 -- the first clash between the sides in nearly six ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214632179/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 08:43:53 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214632179/scat/88176adfdf246af5 For many, both in Azerbaijan and in Russia, it was a surprise to see that not a single vote came from Azerbaijan to Russian contestant Dina Garipova at the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest. Azerbaijani Ambassador to Russia Polad Bulbuloglu in his interview to Vestnik Kavkaza said that in fact it is not so. Azerbaijan gave a high vote to Russia but these voices have gone missing. What exactly ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214632267/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 08:37:31 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214632267/scat/88176adfdf246af5 BARCELONA - It hardly qualifies as breaking news that Europe is in the middle of a deep and protracted economic contraction. When a story, no matter how shocking, goes on for years, the natural inclination is to let it fade to the background of our awareness. But a visit to Spain - even to one of the cities where the economic tragedy does a good job of hiding behind hordes of tourists and ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214632143/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 08:35:33 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214632143/scat/88176adfdf246af5 NEW ORLEANS, May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- GenoVive is forming worldwide partnerships and is engaged in discussions with several countries in Europe and other continents to bring its "Weight Loss Designed by Science" program internationally. Vic Castellon, PhamD. CEO and Founder of GenoVive ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214632269/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 08:35:05 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214632269/scat/88176adfdf246af5 A European Union law up for a vote on Monday will only fully shield taxpayers from bailing out troubled banks if there is a global framework as well, a top UK regulator said on Monday. Bank of England Deputy Governor Paul Tucker said the EU law on bank recovery and resolution would be a milestone towards a global system and help convince markets that governments were no longer willing to rescue ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214631943/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 08:34:37 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214631943/scat/88176adfdf246af5 20 May 2013 Two tourists died and 23 others were injured when two hot air balloons collided in mid-air during a sightseeing tour in Turkey, causing one to ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214632270/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 08:34:32 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214632270/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Illustration:Liu Rui/GT A few days ago the British-based Indian steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal, founder of the famous company ArcelorMittal, urged the EU to protect itself against China imports. According to a Financial Times article, Mittal suggested that Europe should embrace protectionist measures to stop Chinese products flooding the market with cheap goods. However, protectionism could be a ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214632144/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 08:33:36 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214632144/scat/88176adfdf246af5 A proposal to introduce more courses in English and other foreign languages at French universities is set to be debated in parliament from Wednesday amid concerns it will undermine the country's soul and ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214631881/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 08:31:04 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214631881/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Eight people have been killed as two car bombs exploded outside the headquarters of the court bailiffs' service in the capital of Russia's Dagestan Republic, Makhachkala. The first car loaded with explosives reportedly went off causing no fatalities or injuries. Once law enforcements got to the scene, the second bomb detonated, Interfax reported citing local investigative ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214632271/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 08:27:20 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214632271/scat/88176adfdf246af5 MOSCOW, May 20 (RIA Novosti) - A retired US diplomat and expert on the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act was banned from entering Russia earlier this month, the New York Times said on Sunday.Moscow-based Thomas Firestone, who works for Baker & McKenzie law firm, was declared persona non grata when returning to Russia from a trip abroad on May 5, the report said.No official explanation for the ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214632272/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 08:26:16 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214632272/scat/88176adfdf246af5 British officials should have voted against a "crazy" European Union ban on restaurants serving olive oil in jugs or dishes, MPs have ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214632274/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 08:22:45 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214632274/scat/88176adfdf246af5 As U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron heads to Brussels this week to discuss EU tax policies, he knows there are far more taxing questions at home regarding whether his party wants to remain within the Union. The Prime Minister is still dealing with the fallout from the United Kingdom Independence Party's (UKIP) impressive display at local elections in early May and backbench calls for a ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214632275/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 08:22:44 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214632275/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Iran 's electoral watchdog said on Monday it would bar physically feeble candidates from running for president, in an apparent hint that it could disqualify 78-year-old former ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214632381/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 08:22:31 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214632381/scat/88176adfdf246af5 By Aziz El Yaakoubi RABAT, May 20 (Reuters) - Morocco's junior government party is threatening to quit the coalition unless Islamist prime minister Abdelilah Benkirane moderates plans for sweeping cuts to subsidies on food and energy. Increased subsidies have been part of Morocco's strategy to prevent popular discontent welling up into an uprising of the kind that has toppled ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214632423/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 08:22:25 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214632423/scat/88176adfdf246af5 LONDON (MarketWatch) -- European stock markets tracked U.S. stock futures lower in choppy trade on Monday, with mining firms dropping after broad-based losses in metals ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214631957/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 08:17:06 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214631957/scat/88176adfdf246af5 European shares extended gains to set a new five-year high for a fourth straight session on Monday, with investors flocking to buy riskier assets such as equities on fresh signs of a recovery in the global economy. At 0707 GMT, the FTSEurofirst 300 index of top European shares was 0.2 percent firmer at 1,250.68 points, the highest since the middle of 2008. The index is up more than 10 percent so ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214631914/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 08:16:16 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214631914/scat/88176adfdf246af5 MAKHACHKALA, Russia (Reuters) - Two car bombs exploded in the capital of the Russian province of Dagestan on Monday, killing at least eight people and wounding about 20 others, investigators ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214631891/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 08:15:47 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214631891/scat/88176adfdf246af5 NICE, France -- Lyon cemented third place in the French league to remain on course for the final Champions League berth after a 1-1 draw against Nice despite being reduced to 10 men.Nice slipped to sixth and out of Champions League reckoning ahead of the last weekend of the season.Nice took the lead in the 47th minute when Dario Cvitanich converted from the penalty spot after the forward had been ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214632277/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 08:14:51 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214632277/scat/88176adfdf246af5 South Korean men watch a TV news program reporting missile launch conducted by North Korea, at a Seoul train station in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, May 20, 2013. North Korea fired two more short-range projectiles into its own eastern waters Monday for a third straight day of such launches, Seoul officials said, as Pyongyang threatened to retaliate against what it calls South Korean and U.S. ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214632251/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 08:14:29 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214632251/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Junior Finance Minister Brian Hayes has said that the Government may lower its savings target for public-sector wages from EUR300m this year to EUR250m."We're not going to be doctrinaire about this," he said. "What we want to see is the saving of a billion euro by 2015, and we're looking at alternative proposals in the context of those talks, which would obtain those ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214631944/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 08:14:22 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214631944/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Graeme McDowell, shown during the 2013 Masters, won the Volvo World Match Play on Sunday and moves to seventh in the men's world golf rankings. UPI/Kevin ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214631939/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 08:07:53 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214631939/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Gunther Oettinger said. The European Union in 2009 adopted a goal of getting 20 percent of its energy needs through renewable sources by 2020. Oettinger said the European Union needs to work on 2030 climate and energy goals as it addresses the long-term efforts of cutting emissions as much as 95 percent by 2050. Oettinger said targets like the 2020 measures have their advantages but simply ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214632117/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 08:07:49 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214632117/scat/88176adfdf246af5 ISTANBUL: A Brazilian and a Spanish tourist died on Monday and 23 other people were hurt after two hot-air balloons collided in a beauty spot in central Turkey, officials said. The accident occurred over Cappadocia's sculpted rock formations when one balloon collided with the basket of another balloon above and crashed to the ground, the governor of Nevsehir province, Abdurrahman Savas, told ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214632254/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 08:03:41 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214632254/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Modern geopolitics in the West has always targeted Russia since the famous thesis of Halford Mackinder. Russia is seen of course as an evil empire, also as the Heartland of Eurasia, heir of the Mongols, enjoying so the biggest and most strategic position on earth. Twice invaded and destroyed by the troops of Napoleon and Hitler, Russia is still considered the land of Asiatic invaders! As stated ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214632278/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 08:01:13 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214632278/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Reuters © The Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, Paul Tucker, addresses the International Association of Deposit Insurers Annual Conference in London October 25, 2012. REUTERS/Neil ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214630945/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 07:43:40 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214630945/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Europe is failing in the fight against youth unemployment. While the German government's efforts remain largely symbolic, Southern European leaders pander to older voters by defending the status ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214631174/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 07:41:11 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214631174/scat/88176adfdf246af5 The operations are underway on north and north-west of Azerbaijan, APA reports. It involves bodies Azerbaijani and Russian law enforcement agencies. Posts have been created in Zaqatala, residents say. The police check both outgoing and incoming cars. Though Gakh Police Department confirmed the launch of operations, it declined to provide details citing its confidentiality. Guba Police ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214631167/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 07:38:48 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214631167/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Ali Hasanov visits Astrakhan. Head of the Azerbaijani delegation arriving in Astrakhan for participation in ceremonies on occasion of the 90th jubilee of national leader, Heydar Aliyev, chief of the public policy department of the Presidential Administration of Azerbaijan Ali Hasanov met the governor of Astrakhan, Alexander Zhilkin on 20 May. Special correspondent of AzerTag, governor of the ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214631170/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 07:38:40 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214631170/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Director of the Public Television of Azerbaijan Jamil Guliyev made a statement on the calculation of Azerbaijani votes for Russia in Eurovision 2013 song contest? AzerTag reports. The statement says: "Russia is a country that has much in common with Azerbaijan-these are common interests, common human values and common history. Today, cultural and artistic ties of Azerbaijan and Russia ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214631169/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 07:38:40 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214631169/scat/88176adfdf246af5 The man, named by the Foreign Office as Julian Stevenson, was held after the bodies of his son and daughter were found by police in his flat in Saint-Priest, a suburb of Lyon. Their throats had been slit. The children have been named in local reports as Mathew, 10, and Carla, five. Stevenson – who was said to be unemployed – had been living in France for some time, possibly around ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214631175/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 07:38:21 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214631175/scat/88176adfdf246af5 'Avukat' should know that this is a question of whether the police have jurisdiction or not. It depends on what kind of laws we have in the Constitution of Malta. As far as I am aware of the police have no power to investigate his alleged crimes. Otherwise I am sure that the police would have investigated ! It would be another investigation like all others ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214631176/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 07:37:32 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214631176/scat/88176adfdf246af5 ? ????????????, ?????????????, ????????????, ??????????, ?????????? ????? ?????? ? ????. - ??????????? ????? ???????? ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214631128/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 07:36:17 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214631128/scat/88176adfdf246af5 The SK will insist that Ponomaryov be stripped of lawmaker's immunity. SK spokesman Vladimir Markin told the Izvestia that the SK would pass all the necessary documents to the Prosecutor General's Office which would request the State Duma to strip the lawmaker of ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214631178/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 07:36:16 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214631178/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Russia officially refused to join the international organization Open Government Partnership /OGP/. The membership bid was personally initiated by Dmitry Medvedev in the spring of 2012, the OGP said a report on Twitter. This will not affect the work of Russia's Open Government. "OGP confirms that Russia withdrew its letter of intent to join the Partnership," the report ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214631177/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 07:36:15 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214631177/scat/88176adfdf246af5 * FTSEurofirst 300 index steadies by midday trade * Euro Stoxx 50 flat, support seen at 2,750 points * Ryanair jumps after forecast-beating results By Atul Prakash LONDON, May 20 (Reuters) - European shares held steady on Monday after touching a new five-year high, with positive data from the United States and Japan pointing to an improving global economic outlook, boosting the market's ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214632276/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 07:35:22 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214632276/scat/88176adfdf246af5 A British man who has reportedly admitted killing his two children by slitting their throats is due to appear in court in Lyon charged with their murder."He has recognised the facts, he has given factual elements of what happened, but he has not gone into details about the motive and hasn't shown much remorse," the French prosecutors' office reportedly said.Investigators are ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214631179/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 07:34:47 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214631179/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Siena , a team who had already been relegated and whose fans might even have preferred to lose than to risk doing any favours for their Tuscan ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214631180/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 07:34:43 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214631180/scat/88176adfdf246af5 MOSCOW, May 20 (RIA Novosti) – Russia will need from three to five years to exit stagnation and build an efficient economy, former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said on Monday. "Even if we roll up our sleeves and set to work right now, we’ll need from three to five years to achieve new elements of efficiency," Kudrin said at an Open Tribune meeting held by the State Duma, ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214630873/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 07:27:00 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214630873/scat/88176adfdf246af5 LONDON — Even the most fervent supporters of the European Union would acknowledge that its bureaucrats occasionally display an unrivaled talent for shooting themselves in the foot. At a time of declining public enthusiasm for the pan-European project, Brussels has set aside time from tackling a chronic economic crisis to confront the pressing issue of how olive oil is served in the ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214631076/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 07:20:41 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214631076/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Sweden together on discovering that she was pregnant. After a short while in Sweden, they started fighting one another and their relationship has broken down. The woman, together with the child, is now being housed by A women crisis center. The man has now used his connections and wants the woman deported without the baby. The woman’s father in Kenya who gave them the go ahead to have the ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214631182/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 07:14:26 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214631182/scat/88176adfdf246af5 World No. 1 Serena Williams, shown in a file photo from the 2012 Olympics, has won a personal record 24 consecutive matches, including a run through last week's Italian Open. UPI/Hugo ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214631747/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 07:11:39 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214631747/scat/88176adfdf246af5 The European Commission cleared the way for the planned Trans Adriatic natural gas pipeline to offer Azeri natural gas to consumers, a consortium announced. The TAP pipeline said it received a third-party access exemption for an initial capacity of 350 billion cubic feet of natural gas from Azerbaijan. "The decision means that TAP can offer capacity for export of gas volumes from ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214630984/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 07:11:33 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214630984/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Despite heavy protests from Comoros, the Comoran island Mayotte soon will become a department and an integrated part of France. The move could further divide France and Comoros, or bring them closer ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214631111/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 07:07:51 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214631111/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Colonel Ghaddafi today in an interview thanked the governments of Germany, Russia and China for opposing a no-fly zone over Libya, promising new oil ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214631152/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 07:07:16 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214631152/scat/88176adfdf246af5 The U.S. suspects Russia of delivering missiles to the Syrian government. According to U.S. intelligence, Moscow intends to supply Damascus with advanced anti-ship missiles called Yakhont. Such a move, experts say, would help President Bashar al-Assad to effectively struggle with any attempts to intervene, prevent arms supplies to rebels and avoid the naval blockade of the ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214630998/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 07:04:46 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214630998/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with (clockwise, starting in top left.) U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, British Prime Minister David Cameron, next Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. REUTERS/FILES A string of leaders and senior emissaries, seeking to prevent further escalation of the Syria crisis, has headed to Moscow recently to meet with ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214632149/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 07:00:28 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214632149/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Much loved at Borussia Dortmund after scoring a memorable goal 20 seconds after coming off the bench in the 1997 UEFA Champions League final, Lars Ricken recalls that momentous ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214629851/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:46:51 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214629851/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Supporters of the Ukrainian oppositional parties take part in a rally against the current regime in Kiev, Ukraine, Saturday, May 18, 2013. The banner reads: "Freedom to Ukraine" (AP Photo/Sergei ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214629744/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:44:16 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214629744/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Pat Hurst - 20 May 2013 LIVERPOOL and England footballer Raheem Sterling had a charge of common assault dropped today after a witness failed to turn up to ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214629852/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:39:17 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214629852/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Neville Neville, 63, is accused of sexually assaulting a 46-year-old woman in March, the Crown Prosecution Service said.Nazir Afzal from the CPS said: "Greater Manchester Police has investigated an allegation of sexual assault by Neville Neville in March 2013."I have reviewed all the evidence that they have gathered and have authorised the police to charge him with one count of sexual ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214629853/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:39:16 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214629853/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Following the DAX's rise to a new record high and the FTSE's rally to its highest level in over five years, Citigroup's Jonathan Stubbs told CNBC that European equities have "rarely" been so appealing to investors. The bank's European equity strategist said on Monday that the pace of downgrades to earnings forecasts is improving which, in the past, has been very ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214629854/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:28:24 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214629854/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Following the DAX's rise to a new record high and the FTSE's rally to its highest level in over five years, Citigroup's Jonathan Stubbs told CNBC that European equities have "rarely" been so appealing to investors. The bank's European equity strategist said on Monday that the pace of downgrades to earnings forecasts is improving which, in the past, has been very ... http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214629855/scat/88176adfdf246af5 Mon, 20 May 2013 06:28:23 -0400 http://www.europenews.net/index.php/sid/214629855/scat/88176adfdf246af5