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New book asks Could Germany have a Jewish chancellor
By Erik Kirschbaum BERLIN (Reuters) - A new novel about a neo-Nazi plot to assassinate Germany's first Jewish candidate for Chancellor has shed a timely light on the right-wing extremist violence that has plagued the country since 1990 and was swept under the carpet for years. Political thriller "The Jewish Candidate" by British journalist David Crossland has been published ...
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Platini wants European sports police force
View Photo President of English Football Association Prince William, left, holding a football presented to him, reacts as UEFA President Michel Platini presents him ...
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UK fighter jet scrambled to divert civilian plane
LONDON (AP) -- A British fighter jet was launched to divert a civilian plane carrying nearly 300 passengers from Pakistan to England after an incident on board, British officials said ...
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Britain Scrambles Warplanes for Pakistani Airliner
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IHT Rendezvous Pictures Tell the Story of Portuguese in France
PARIS -- The seven-year-old in the black-and-white photograph bit shyly on her finger, concealing a slight smile. Maria da Conceição TinaMelhorado looked at her long and hard. "I knew it was me," Ms. Melhorado, 54, said, recalling her first encounter with the image in 2010, when a friend called her about it. "But the date in the caption was off by a year, so I had ...
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Gibraltar becomes Uefas 54th member despite Spains past objections
the Gibraltar FA won a case at the court of arbitration for sport obliging Uefa to accept the British overseas territory as a member.The Uefa president Michel Platini said that Gibraltar would be kept apart from Spain in qualifying for Euro 2016. "Gibraltar will not play qualifying matches with Spain - we also have this situation with Armenia and Azerbaijan,'' he said."This ...
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Belgium CEDA Announces Opening of WODCON XX
Dredging is essential to maintaining and improving our quality of life and economic well-being. This is achieved through creating and maintaining water-based infrastructure such as ports and navigation channels, creating new land for housing, business and recreation, providing minerals and construction materials as well as offshore oil, gas and green-energy. Not many people know that dredging ...
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Russias oldest rights group fights foreign agent tag
Russia's oldest rights group began a legal battle on Friday to avoid being branded a "foreign agent" under a new law it sees as a tool of repression by ...
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Germany must spread cost of energy shift fairly
BERLIN (AFP) - Germany must shield its consumers from paying too much of the cost of its ambitious switch from nuclear power and fossil fuels towards renewable energy, the International Energy Agency said on Friday.The IEA also said that Germany, with Europe's biggest economy, should make greater use of natural gas to smoothe the transition and reduce the use of coal so it can meet its ...
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Stockholm riots continue schools set ablaze
STOCKHOLM: More than a dozen cars were torched and schools, shops and a police station were set ablaze as riots swept through Stockholm's immigrant-dominated suburbs for the fifth straight night, police and firefighters said Friday. Police plan to call in reinforcements to help quell the riots, but parents and volunteer organisations who have patrolled the streets in recent nights have ...
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The great European Cup teams Barcelona 2009-2011 | Sid Lowe
Lionel Messi, left, and Andrs Iniesta wear their European Cup winner's medals after Barcelona beat Manchester United in 2011. Photograph: Tom Jenkins for the ...
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Chief of Austrian Bank Offers to Resign
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Sweden Fifth Night Of Rioting In Stockholm
Riots continued for a fifth night in the Swedish capital, Stockholm. Cars, schools and a police station were set alight in response to the fatal shooting of an immigrant by ...
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Italy chefs roast junior minister who snubbed national cuisine
junior minister who dismissed the country's cuisine as a poor copy of trendy French cooking, poking a sore spot in a long-held kitchen rivalry between the two nations. "I have a negative judgment of the skill of Italian ...
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Can David Cameron Achieve EU Reforms Via The Chunnel
British Prime Minister David Cameron addresses the Global Investment Conference in London on May 9, 2013. Cameron lashed out at 'pessimists' in his own party demanding immediate withdrawal from the European Union as he made an address at a global investment conference in central London. (Image credit: AFP/Getty Images via ...
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Ruby says her sworn testimony was lies
Karima el Mahroug appeared for a second day of testimony Friday at the trial of three former Berlusconi aides charged with procuring prostitutes for the media mogul's infamous `'bunga bunga" parties. The trial is separate from the one charging Berlusconi with having paid for sex with a minor - el Mahroug - and then trying to cover it ...
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UN nuke agencys Iran probe driven by US-led intel
VIENNA (AP) -- The U.N. nuclear agency responsible for probing whether Iran has worked on a nuclear bomb depends on the United States and its allies for most of its intelligence, complicating the agency's efforts to produce findings that can be widely accepted by the international ...
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EU risks too big to cooperate bank supervision
Former Bank of France and IMF director Jacques de Larosiere, whose recommendations to tighten financial supervision in Europe were largely endorsed by the European Commission, reacts to the G20 Pittsburgh summit outcome during an interview with Reuters in Paris September 28, ...
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Letter from Europe Qatari Hopes for Paris Saint-Germain Meet Reality
On May 12, the Paris Saint-Germain soccer team clinched its first French championship in 19 years to the wild delight of its players, its fans and its owners, Qatar Sports ...
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IHT Rendezvous Riots Dent Image of Sweden’s Classless Social Model
Five straight nights of rioting in the suburbs of Stockholm, the Swedish capital, have dented the country's international image as a haven of tolerance, prosperity and tranquility. As the unrest spread from the outlying district of Husby, where it was apparently triggered on Sunday by the fatal police shooting of a local man wielding a knife, gangs of youths have torched schools and other ...
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EUROPE MARKETS Europe Stocks Fall With U.S. Futures Ahead Of Data
LONDON – European stock markets dropped on Friday, adding to the prior day's sharp losses, as investors looked to the U.S., where stock futures pointed to a lower open ahead of durable-goods orders data that are expected to show little improvement.The Stoxx Europe 600 index lost 0.5% to 302.41, after sinking 2.1% on Thursday.Shares of BT Group PLC dropped 2%, after J.P. Morgan ...
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NPP Acid Victim Undergoes Successful Operation In Germany
Reports from Germany in indicate that Mr. Peter Mensah, the Techiman North Constituency Organiser of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), who endured an acid attack on October 21, 2012, is doing well. The 27 year-old communicator of the NPP, and student of the Valley View University, was attacked by unknown persons after he represented the NPP at apeace programme organised by the local Ebenezer ...
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Russia welcomes North Koreas readiness for dialogue
North Korea's declaration of readiness to return to talks with world powers, a senior Russian diplomat was cited by the Interfax news agency as saying on Friday. "The fact that Pyongyang has declared its readiness and desire to return to the negotiating tabledeserves a positive assessment," Interfax quoted Russian Foreign Ministry special envoy Grigory Logvinov as saying. A ...
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Austria urges EU to maintain Syrian arms embargo may withdraw UN peacekeepers otherwise
VIENNA - Austria is urging an extension of the EU arms embargo for Syria, saying it may rethink its U.N. peacekeeping role in the region otherwise. Austria's 377 soldiers make up the largest continent of the approximately 900 U.N. peacekeepers posted to the Golan Heights separating Syria and Israel. Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger said Friday they could be targeted by Syrian ...
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Sweden riots Cops seek help US citizens warned
By Simon Johnson and Patrick Lannin, Reuters STOCKHOLM - Police in the Swedish capital are to seek reinforcements after youths again set cars ablaze and threw stones at police for a fifth night running, officials said on Friday.The unrest has led the United States embassy to warn U.S. citizens this week not to go to areas hit by rioting."I can confirm we have sent out a Warden ...
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US nuclear missles in Europe remain poised for a war that will never come
The United States and Russia recently signed a new landmark nuclear non-proliferation treaty called START in March and the US in early May followed up its non-proliferation goals by making the unprecedented step of publicly declaring how many nuclear weapons it had – just over 5,113 in total, though many of them are in storage and would take time to be deployed.
That is a vast reduction compared to the total arsenal the country possessed at the height of the Cold War in 1967, the number at that time was 31,225, according to reports by European news media. Read more
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