Three Turkish soldiers killed in PKK clash
Three Turkish soldiers were killed in clashes with Kurdish rebels near the Syrian border in southern Turkey on Thursday, the provincial governor’s office said. Separately, a provincial leader of Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling AK Party was shot dead late on Wednesday outside his home in Sirnak, near the frontier with Iraq, an official More...
Mladic trial suspended over dispute
The Hague, Netherlands - The war crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic was suspended until further notice Thursday over the prosecution’s failure to disclose some evidence against Mladic, More...
Hollande taps old hands, new faces for French government
French President Francois Hollande named a government dominated by moderate left-wingers on Wednesday after Socialist Party boss Martine Aubry, overlooked for the post of prime minister, said she no longer wanted More...
French PM Jean-Marc Ayrault names new government
France’s new Socialist Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault has named his government, a day after Francois Hollande was inaugurated as president. Hollande campaign chief Pierre Moscovici has been given the role More...
Turkey villagers see Israeli spy in migratory bird
A migratory bird has caused alarm in a village in south-eastern Turkey after locals mistook it for an Israeli spy. Villagers’ suspicions were aroused when the bird, a common European bee-eater, was found dead More...
Greece struggles to steer a path
Greece is now heading along a path which President Karolos Papoulias, the socialist Pasok party and the conservative New Democracy party – and a significant proportion of the population – had all hoped More...
Mladic’s Bosnia war crimes trial opens
From the day of his capture, Ratko Mladic has been as combative in custody as he was as a battlefield commander during the bloody civil war that ripped apart Yugoslavia two decades ago and saw the worst slaughter More...
Hollande and Merkel hold euro talks in Berlin
Newly inaugurated French President Francois Hollande has pledged to work with Germany to resolve the EU’s economic crisis. He was speaking in Berlin following talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, hours More...