Latest Europe News
RSS-
NBC FBI Kills Man Linked to Boston Bombing Suspect
MIAMI -- An FBI agent shot and killed a Florida man with suspected links to the Boston Marathon bombings early on Wednesday, NBC News reported. NBC said the suspect was being questioned and was originally cooperative, but was fatally shot after attacking the agent. ...
-
Syrian Troops Show Strength Ahead of Peace Talks
AMMAN -- The Syrian government says it has made significant progress in recapturing territory from opposition forces, even as it apparently prepares to take part in planned peace talks next month. The government offensive against the former rebel stronghold Qusair comes ahead of a peace conference next month aimed at bringing both sides in the conflict to the negotiating table. Some ...
-
FBI Shooting in Florida May Be Related to Boston Bombings
The incident occurred in the city of Orlando. A local newspaper, The Orlando Sentinel, said a friend had identified the dead man as 27-year-old Ibragim Todashev. The friend told local media Todashev was being investigated as part of the Boston bombings and knew suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev because both were martial-arts fighters. The FBI said only that one of its agents was involved in a ...
More Europe News
RSS-
UEFA issues Wembley ticket warning
UEFA has issued a warning about the unauthorised and unlawful sale of tickets and hospitality packages ahead of Saturday's UEFA Champions League final at Wembley ...
-
Monaco €1 billion reclamation plan for luxury homes district
Monaco plans to reclaim six hectares of land from the Mediterranean to build a new district of luxury apartment blocks, shops and offices. Patrice Coppee / ...
-
Neymar set to become latest attraction in European soccer
Neymar of Santos waves while carrying his son Davi Lucca before his Sao Paulo state soccer league final match against Corinthians in Santos May 19, 2013. (PAULO ...
-
Russian drunk driver who killed orphans sentenced
MOSCOW -; A Russian drunk driver who sparked a nationwide debate after killing seven, including five orphan children, in a road accident last year has been sentenced to ...
-
Vienna official Looted Nazi goods returned
VIENNA -; An official for the city of Vienna says the Austrian capital has handed over nearly 6,000 valuable objects looted by the Nazis to their rightful owners or their heirs since it started taking inventory of them 14 years ...
-
European Union Leaders Meet on Tax Avoidance
BRUSSELS -- European Union leaders gathered here Wednesday for a one-day meeting focused on tax avoidance, amid mounting indignation over reports that American companies including Apple had sheltered profits in member states like ...
-
Russia’s Jewish communities say comparison of SMERSH and SS blasphemous
MOSCOW, May 22 (Itar-Tass) - The Federation of Russia’s Jewish Communities has slammed as provocative a statement by politician Leonid Gozman, who compared the Soviet Union’s World War II counter-intelligence service SMERSH (Death to Spies) and Germany’s Nazi SS. Also, it expressed extreme concern over a new spiral of confrontation in the public discussion over the results of ...
-
DFDS Loss Widens on Flat North European Cargo Markets
reported its pre-tax loss in the seasonally weak first quarter widened to 118 million kroner ($ 20.5 million) from 98 million kroner ($17 million) a year earlier, as cargo traffic stalled on its key North Sea and Baltic shipping routes.Northern Europe's ...
-
European shares off peaks
London - European shares fell from multi-year highs on Wednesday, with luxury goods stocks among the worst performers, as some investors sold in anticipation of a near-term pull-back in the ...
-
Costa Concordia shipwreck captain to face manslaughter trial
Costa Concordia flipped on its side outside the Tuscan port of Giglio in January last year after it struck rocks during a manoeuvre that brought it too close to the shore.The accident triggered a chaotic night-time evacuation of more than 4,000 passengers and crew from the 290-metre-long ship (951-ft), which still rests on a rock shelf outside the port.Captain Francesco Schettino left the ship ...
-
Jon Venables is a danger to the public - James Bolgers mum makes emotional plea to keep sons killer behind bars
Denise Fergus said Venables, 30, who had his initial parole revoked in 2010 after admitting downloading and distributing indecent images of children, remains a danger to society.Mrs Fergus addressed the parole board earlier today by videolink from Probation Service offices near her home in Merseyside.During the live, two-way video link, two-year-old James's mother made a Victim Personal ...
-
Most expensive coffee in the world – silver pot expected to sell for $6m at auction
Paul Casciato - 22 May 2013 AN 18th century silver Rococo coffee pot is expected to become the most valuable piece of English silver ever sold at auction when it goes up for sale in July, auction house Christie's ...
-
Dutch face highest bills in Europe for mobile internet
The Netherlands is the most expensive market in the EU for mobile broadband internet services, according to new Finnish research. For example, the report, by consultancy ...
-
Russia Steps Up Missile Sales to Syria
JERUSALEM, Israel -- Not only will Russia make good on delivering advanced S-300 anti-missile batteries and surface-to-air missiles to Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime, it has also provided anti-ship cruise missiles with advanced guidance systems, ...
-
Russia luxury car tax seen as another step towards social justice
Russian economy Russia's luxury tax - a campaign pledge by President Vladimir Putin - is taking shape. Though attaining social equality through taxing the rich has proven tough, the Russian parliament has outlined legislation to sharply raise taxes on luxury cars. Driving quick as the wind on a car worth over $160,000 on Moscow streets, which sees its fair share of expensive German cars, ...
-
Russia’s Q1 Gold Production Up 4
MOSCOW, May 22 (RIA Novosti) – Russia refined 35.235 metric tons of gold in January-March 2013, up 4.37 percent from a year earlier, the Russian Gold Industrialists Union said on Wednesday. That included gold extracted by gold miners and gold from the associated output of non-ferrous metals. Gold extraction grew by 6.34 percent to 29.33 tons, while gold output from scrap and waste ...
-
Stockholm riots spread to districts after fatal police shooting
Gangs of youths have smashed shop windows, set cars ablaze and burnt down a cultural center as riots that started in one Stockholm suburb after a fatal police shooting spread to other low-income areas of the Swedish ...
-
European Union Sacrifices Serb Self-Determination—Again
The Balkans Wars ended years ago, but ethnic divisions remain strong, promoted, unfortunately, by the European Union. The latest example of geopolitical malpractice is the EU-brokered agreement for Serbia's de facto recognition of Kosovo's independence. Two decades of America's and Europe's toxic mix of diplomacy and war-making followed one consistent policy: the Serbs ...
-
SocGen says Russia unit CEOs duties to be terminated
MOSCOW | Wed May 22, 2013 10:12am EDT MOSCOW May 22 (Reuters) - Societe Generale's Russian unit CEO Vladimir Golubkov's duties will be terminated, the bank and its unit, Rosbank, said in a joint statement on Wednesday. For details please see (Reporting by Katya ...
-
UK Denmark eyes visas for Afghan interpreters
LONDON (AP) -- Britain and Denmark are proposing to give hundreds of Afghan interpreters who worked alongside their troops the right to settle in the U.K. and Denmark in recognition of the risks to their personal ...
-
Kurdish crude sales to rise as exports reach second Turkish port
Wed May 22, 2013 10:08am EDT * Taq Taq crude exports to reach about 60,000 bpd by end June * Kurdistan to start deliveries to second terminal in Turkey * Crude in steady stream to Northern Europe By Julia Payne and Peg Mackey LONDON, May 22 (Reuters) - Iraqi Kurdistan's crude oil sales to world markets, deemed illegal by Baghdad, are set to rise by nearly 50 percent next month as trucks ...
-
Asian Gold Premiums Hit New Highs as Europe Urged to Start Agressive QE
London Gold Market ReportBULLION prices rose throughout Asian and early London trade on Wednesday morning, touching $1398 per ounce for the third time this week and recovering 4.4% from Monday's one-month low.Silver rose more steadily, and was capped below $22.80 as energy prices slipped and agricultural commodities held flat.Tuesday's retreat in the gold price today ...
Italy Digest
-
Italy heavily involved in multi billion euro South Stream project
Italy’s natural gas company ENI is a major investor in the South Stream natural gas pipeline project, but the infrastructure development is being held up by a number of trans-national issues, which the Italian government believes is detrimental to the country’s energy security.
South Stream is the name of the transit pipeline that is intended to transport natural gas from Russia to Southern Europe, bypassing Belarus and the Ukraine. It has been highlighted by Prime Minister Berlusconi as important for the energy needs of Italy as it will eliminate the so-called ‘middle man’ and enhance the security of our energy supply, an issue that was underscored in 2005 when ongoing business disputes between Russia and the Ukraine spilled over into trans-national political issues. Read more
News from around our Network
