- Friday, April 24, 2015 from World News - Breaking international news and headlines | Sky NewsAuthorities fear that up to 920 migrants died when the ship carrying them sunk in waters between Libya and Italy.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from IrishExaminer.com - IrelandA provisional liquidator has been appointed by the High Court to the operators of a private third level college.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from IrishExaminer.com - WorldWhen a woman in Texas claimed that Alondra Luna Nunez was her long-lost daughter, the girl’s real parents in Mexico say they presented more than a dozen documents from baptismal records and a copy of her birth certificate to family...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from BBC News - WorldHuman rights groups say new measures agreed by the EU to tackle the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean do not go far enough.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from BBC News - WorldA former assistant to US artist Jasper Johns has been sentenced to 18 months in prison after admitting he stole artworks from Johns' Connecticut studio.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from World News - Breaking international news and headlines | Sky NewsAbout 50 people were walking along the tracks in Macedonia when the group was hit by a speeding train.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from BBC News - WorldCeremonies are under way in Armenia to mark the centenary of the start of mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from IrishExaminer.com - WorldThe parents of Britain’s youngest organ donor said knowing their newborn son saved someone’s life had given them a great deal of comfort.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from euronewsRemembering the Armenians killed by Ottoman Turks in 1915. World leaders, including the presidents of Russia, France and Serbia, have gathered in…
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from IrishExaminer.com - WorldA first attempt to create genetically modified (GM) human embryos has been made by Chinese scientists in a move that has prompted a call for a worldwide ban on the creation of ‘designer babies’.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from BBC News - EuropeCommemorations are under way in Armenia to mark the centenary of the start of killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from IrishExaminer.com - IrelandA 70-year-old widow is preparing to embark on a gruelling 2,500km cycle to raise much-needed funding for children with a congenital heart defect.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from IrishExaminer.com - IrelandCommercial confidentiality was used to hide deals involving the former Anglo Irish Bank which caused grave concern to civil servants, the Dáil heard.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from World: BreakingNews.ieMore than a dozen pupils have been injured, one of them critically, after a stage collapsed during a performance at an Indiana high school.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from IrishExaminer.com - IrelandThe former chairman of AIB has claimed the bank had no role in drafting the bank guarantee and that no bank could have stopped the bubble.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Ireland: BreakingNews.iePresident Michael D Higgins is in Turkey today to join commemorations to mark 100 years since the disastrous Gallipoli campaign.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from IrishExaminer.com - IrelandYouTube — it’s a weird and wonderful place, full of crazy cat videos and thought-provoking Ted Talks, celebrity gaffes and hard-hitting documentaries.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from IrishExaminer.com - IrelandThe Bell family have been serving and protecting the public for 150 years, and yesterday two more members of the family’s fourth generation graduated as gardaí.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from - World RSS FeedAs commemorations for the thousands of men who died in the infamous First World War Gallipoli campaign begin around the world, drone footage has captured the beauty of the peninsula today.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from IrishExaminer.com - IrelandA judge yesterday quoted a British rock star as he imposed five-and-a-half-year suspended jail sentences on two men caught with €35,000 at Blackpool shopping centre in Cork.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from RTÉ News - IrelandThe Supreme Court will decide this morning whether the 2012 Children's Referendum should be re-run.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from BBC News - EuropeEurogroup head Jeroen Dijsselboem warns "time is running is out" for a Greek debt deal as eurozone finance ministers prepare to meet Greek officials.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from IrishExaminer.com - WorldStaff at a Chinese car dealership spent six hours counting bank notes after a customer paid for a new BMW with banknotes worth about 14 cent each.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from The Irish Times - NewsTalks will center on the economy, agriculture, the British EU exit and Greece
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Ireland: BreakingNews.ieFianna Fáil's honorary secretary has said the party "isn't afraid of anyone" as it prepares for the next election.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from BBC News - UKHealth Minister Jim Wells apologises for remarks he made during a gay marriage discussion at an event ahead of the 7 May general election.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from BBC News - WorldProposals for "English votes for English laws" would be in place for the first Budget of a Conservative government, David Cameron is to say.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from IrishExaminer.com - IrelandAlmost 9,000 patients were left on trolleys in hospitals around the country following admission last month, making it the worst March for a decade in terms of patient-trolley numbers.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from IrishExaminer.com - WorldENGLAND: A number of bingo hall toilets in the UK have tested positive for cocaine, according to a newspaper investigation, amid concerns that increasing numbers of older people are turning to the drug.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from IrishExaminer.com - WorldA former SS sergeant has described in chilling detail how cattle cars full of Jews were brought to the Auschwitz death camp, the people stripped of their belongings, and then most led directly into gas chambers.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from RTÉ News - WorldWorld leaders, including French President Francois Hollande and Russian leader Vladimir Putin, have held a minute's silence in Yerevan to mark 100 years since the start of the World War I massacres of Armenians.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from RTÉ News - WorldA volcano erupted overnight in Costa Rica, shooting up a column of ash that forced the closure of the airport in the capital city San Jose.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from IrishExaminer.com - IrelandAn assistant garda commissioner has claimed he was asked by Garda commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan during interviews for the position of deputy commisisoner about his views on “left-wing political extremism in Ire...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from mirror - World newsThe man, clad in a leather jacket, was accused of being gay by the terror group that has carved a swathe of terror across Syria and Iraq. Another man shared his fate
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from IrishExaminer.com - IrelandA High Court judge has reserved his decision on an action by former minister for justice Alan Shatter aimed at quashing certain parts of a report concerning his handling of allegations made by Garda whistleblower Sergeant Maurice McCabe.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from IrishExaminer.com - IrelandDavid Agnew and estranged wife Adele King, otherwise known as Twink, face a bid by Bank of Scotland to re-possess a house, a mortgage for which remains in both their names.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from IrishExaminer.com - IrelandAn off-duty detective witnessed an assault in the middle of a busy roundabout shortly before lunchtime where the attacker tried to stab the victim in the head with a scissors.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from BBC News - WorldResidents and emergency workers in southern Chile clear ash that has rained down on towns near the Calbuco volcano.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from World news and comment from the Guardian | theguardian.comIn a military disaster 100 years ago, about 58,000 allied soldiers died. What was the plan, exactly what went wrong, and what is Gallipoli’s legacy? Continue reading...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from BBC News - WorldPolice in Macedonia say at least 14 migrants were killed by an express train as they followed a well-trodden route to western Europe.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from - World RSS FeedJihadists have been posing as gay men in a bid to trap victims, a report has claimed, as Isis released pictures purporting to show two allegedly homosexual men being embraced by militants before they are brutally stoned to death in public.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from IrishExaminer.com - IrelandNew drugs minister Aodhán Ó Ríordáin said Ireland needed to “think differently” about how it approached the problem — and people with an addiction should be dealt with by the health service, ...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from IrishExaminer.com - IrelandDiscussions and policies around how to meet the sexual needs of people with dementia who are in residential care need to be put on the agenda to afford them the same rights and entitlements as everyone else.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Reuters: World NewsTOKYO (Reuters) - Authorities in the Japanese capital have cordoned off a playground where high levels of radiation were detected this week, reviving concerns about nuclear contamination four years after the Fukushima disaster.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from IrishExaminer.com - IrelandThe man accused of murdering Cork nurse Karen Buckley is due to appear in court in Scotland again today.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from RTÉ News - WorldA Co Antrim man who punched his younger brother outside a pub in Sydney, leaving him critically injured, has been given a 13-month suspended sentence.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from IrishExaminer.com - WorldHillary Clinton’s family’s charities are refiling at least five annual tax returns after a review found errors in how they reported donations from governments, and said they may audit other Clinton Foundation returns in case ...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from RTÉ News - IrelandA hundred new jobs are to be generated in Co Waterford over three years by a US publishing group.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from World News - Breaking international news and headlines | Sky NewsThe highly-anticipated clash at the MGM-Grand in Las Vegas is being billed as the fight of the century.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from BBC News - WorldA stage at a school in Indiana, US, has collapsed during a musical performance, injuring dozens of people.
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Uploads by euronews (in English)EU agrees to triple rescue funding for Mediterranean migrants EU leaders are to triple funding for the search and rescue of migrants at risk of drowning in the Mediterranean. European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said funds f...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Uploads by euronews (in English)Italy: 220 migrants rescued off Libyan coast As EU leaders met in Brussels to discuss the growing numbers of migrant deaths in the Mediterranean, more than 200 migrants have been rescued by the Italian Coast Guard, in what is becoming......
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Uploads by DW (English)Exhibition shows how far Germany has come since WW2 | Journal The lessons of World War 2 still loom large over Germany, as the country prepares to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of the Nazi terror. A new exhibition in Berlin shows ...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Radio Free Europe / Radio LibertyU.S. instructors gave Ukrainian National Guard forces firing drills, using armored vehicles and automatic weapons, at a military base in the west of Ukraine on April 23. Some 300 U.S. paratroops are in Ukraine to improve the fighting cap...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE - WorldAt least 14 migrants from Somalia and Afghanistan were killed near the central city of Veles in Macedonia. They were hit by a train as they walked through a canyon, trying to reach western Europe.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from France 24 - Live newsAlthough Turkey does not officially recognise the genocide of Armenians, many of the country’s residents are working for the recognition of the massacre, and hope for peace between the two states.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from NL Times » NetherlandsThe debate on the flight MH17 disaster in eastern Ukraine had to be paused on Thursday after a portion of the podium platform collapsed. The post Podium collapses during parliament debate appeared first on NL Times .
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Uploads by euronews (in English)Ex-commander and CIA director David Petraeus sentenced in military leak case The former US military commander in Iraq and Afghanistan and director of the CIA, David Petraeus, has been fined $100000 (92000 euros) and sentenced to two year...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Uploads by euronews (in English)Iraq: UN team visits camp for families who have fled Ramadi fighting A senior UN delegation has visited camps in Baghdad for Iraq's internally-displaced people - 2.7 million of whom have fled their homes since January last year. Lise...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from France 24 - Live newsGoogle's latest Internet revolution this week saw the web giant modify its search algorithm to favour mobile-friendly sites, in a bid to upstage Apple that US media branded a "mobilegeddon". US technology website WIRED described Tuesday'...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Radio Free Europe / Radio LibertyKremlin-connected ideologue Aleksandr Dugin is teaming up with a U.S. white supremacist for an online lecture at a Texas university, outraging Ukrainian-Americans.
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Uploads by Sky NewsActor Brian Cox sets explains why he left Labour for the SNP Actor Brian Cox explains why he moved to the SNP, and discusses how UK politics appears to be changing. From: Sky News Views: 26 2 ratings Time: 04:35 More in News & Politics
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Uploads by Sky NewsScottish political commentators discuss the SNP's rise in the polls Robin McAlpine of the Common Weal and Catherine Macleod, former adviser to Alistair Darling, discuss the growth of the Scottish National Party. From: Sky News Views:...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Uploads by AFPPride and obscurity: the history-making crew of Vietnam's 'Tank 390' Keep up-to-date with the latest news, subscribe here: http://bit.ly/AFP-subscribe When Tank 390 crashed through the gates of Saigon's presidential palac...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from France 24 - Live newsApple has won an appeal in China over patent rights to voice recognition software such as the iPhone's "Siri", with a court overruling an earlier decision that had gone against the US technology giant. The legal battle begun in 2012 when...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from France 24 - Live newsThe South Korean government struggled Friday to prevent company managers conceding to North Korean wage rise demands for workers in their joint industrial zone in Kaesong. The Unification Ministry admitted that around a dozen South Korea...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Inter Press ServiceOn Thursday, the United Nations and the government of Turkey launched a new Istanbul Regional Hub, which provides support to the countries and territories in which the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) works in Europe and the C...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from France 24 - Live newsTurkey on Friday hosts world leaders to commemorate the centenary of the World War I battle of Gallipoli, sending out a message of reconciliation -- and patriotic pride over one of the most dramatic Ottoman victories of the war.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE - WorldArmenians worldwide are commemorating the 100th anniversary of an Ottoman massacre of up to 1.5 million people. The presidents of Russia and France are expected to be among hundreds of thousands of mourners in Yerevan.
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from NewsPortugal's Supreme Court last night turned down yet another appeal of 'habeas corpus' to release the former Prime Minister José Sócrates. The former Socialist leader has been held since November 2014 on charges of tax evasion and money l...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from France 24 - Live newsLoretta Lynch won Senate approval as US attorney general on Thursday, becoming the first black woman to occupy the post at a time when deadly altercations between white police and unarmed black men are making headlines.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from France 24 - Live newsThai wildlife officials began a headcount Friday of nearly 150 tigers kept by monks at a temple which has become the centre of a dispute over the welfare of the animals. Wat Pha Luang Ta Bua in Thailand's western Kanchanaburi province --...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from NewsAverage unemployment in Portugal stands at 14% which was pretty much the same throughout the land. The lowest rate was in the centre of the country and the highest on the Azores (see chart below).
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from European VoiceThis election marks the latest act in a 20-year long personal drama among three men who have dedicated their lives to getting Britain out of the EU.
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Uploads by Sky NewsWhat is behind the SNP's rise ahead of the general election? Tom Costley and Janey Godley discuss the party's rise. From: Sky News Views: 23 2 ratings Time: 04:17 More in News & Politics
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from France 24 - Live newsFrench police are questioning a 25-year-old woman allegedly linked to Sid Ahmed Ghlam, the main suspect in a foiled church attack plot, according to French media reports.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from NewsCompanies have been invited to submit tenders for the controversial air service between Bragança and Portimão. The new route will serve Vila Real, Viseu and Cascais from bases in the north and in the Algarve at the municipal aerodrome at...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from France 24 - Live newsCash-strapped Greece has not made enough progress in crunch debt talks with its European partners to unlock sorely-needed funds as part of its massive EU-IMF bailout, the bloc's Commissioner for the Euro Valdis Dombrovskis said on Friday...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from www.efe.com - English edition
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from GazzettaDelSudNaples, April 23 - Carabinieri military police are seeking a man who battered his estranged wife while she was on her way to see a divorce lawyer, sources said Thursday. The 35-year-old victim was attacked and beaten in front of her two ...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE - WorldSaudi-led warplanes have launched more airstrikes in Yemen, as both sides call for talks but press on with military action. The World Health Organization has said the death toll since March has topped 1,000.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from European Voice
by Ryan Heath @PoliticoRyan | rheath@politico.eu MISSED THE POLITICO PRINT EDITION? HERE’S THE 32-PAGE PDF: http://bit.ly/1d3nWxh DRIVING THE DAY >>> WILL WE EVER SEE PROGRESS ON GREECE? WHY DOES TODAY MATTER? BEGINNING ... - Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Uploads by AFPEx-CIA chief Petraeus fined, gets probation for info leak Keep up-to-date with the latest news, subscribe here: http://bit.ly/AFP-subscribe Former CIA chief David Petraeus was given two years' probation and fined $100000 for providin...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from France 24 - Live newsIOC supremo Thomas Bach will meet India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday amid growing expectations that one of the Olympics' perennial underachievers may make its first bid to host the Games. Even if hosting the Olympics in 2024 ...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Uploads by AFPResidents near Chile's Calbuco volcano clean up Keep up-to-date with the latest news, subscribe here: http://bit.ly/AFP-subscribe Residents clear ash off the streets and from their houses as smoke rises from Calbuco volcano following...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from European VoiceAt EU summit, 'conversations will allow us to continue our discussions.'
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from NewsThe share of persons aged between 30 and 34 in the EU who have completed tertiary education has been constantly increasing. In 2002, 24% accomplished it and this grew to 38% by 2014.
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Uploads by AFPIn Yemen's Aden, residents struggle to get by as clashes rage Keep up-to-date with the latest news, subscribe here: http://bit.ly/AFP-subscribe Saudi-led coalition warplanes launched new strikes in Yemen on Thursday despite a demand ...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from European VoiceThe European Parliament's president not expecting a breakthrough on stemming the flow of migrants and of a rapid resolution to Greek crisis.
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from NewsJosé Guilherme, the man who gave Ricardo Salgado €14 million out of the goodness of his heart after some informal investment advice, now is formally being investigated by Portugal’s prosecutors. José Guilherme 'did not feel well e...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from France 24 - Live newsAt least 14 immigrants from Somalia and Afghanistan were killed in central Macedonia when they were hit by an international passenger train, officials said on Friday. The train driver reported seeing several dozen people sitting on or ne...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from GazzettaDelSudBrussels, April 23 - European Union leaders met Thursday to discuss the Mediterranean migrant crisis at an emergency summit that Italian Premier Matteo Renzi pressed for following last weekend's boat disaster in which over 700 people are...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from France 24 - Live newsPromoters of the Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather mega fight have taken the unusual step of charging for the weigh-in after a limited number of tickets for the fight were snapped up almost immediately on Thursday. Tickets for the May 1 we...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Uploads by euronews (in English)Hubble Space Telescope: NASA releases 25th birthday snapshot It is an anniversary image that is out of this world! For the 25th birthday of the Hubble Space Telescope, NASA has released a celestial snapshot captured by the orbiting obser...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE - EuropeAmid tensions over Turkey's refusal to call Ottoman forces' killings of Armenians genocide, the Armenian Church declared the victims to be saints. The canonization was held ahead of centennial commemorations.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from France 24 - Live newsDefending champion Lydia Ko shot a five-under 67 to seize the early lead at the LPGA Tour's Swinging Skirts Classic tournament. The world number one from New Zealand looked confident and comfortable in the first round much like she did l...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from France 24 - Live newsOne of Greece's largest banks says it will wipe away the debts of clients who owe up to 20,000 euros ($21,600) in a one-off gesture to ease the burden on its crisis-hit customers. The Bank of Piraeus decided to write off or restructure d...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE - WorldIn less than six months, Indonesia is going to be the Guest of Honour Country at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Goenawan Mohamad, chairman of the National Committee, talks to DW about his hopes and the major drawbacks so far.
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Uploads by DW (English)Flight and return | Journal What happens to people from Africa who try to find a better life in Europe but get sent back home? We meet a man in Nigeria whose asylum application was rejected and is now back in Lagos, trying... From: DW (E...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from GazzettaDelSudRome, April 23 - Italian hostage Giovanni Lo Porto was killed in a CIA drone strike in January targeting al-Qaeda in an area along the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan, the White House said on Thursday. An American hostage, Warren...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from TASS: RussiaMOSCOW, April 23. /TASS/. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov and UN Deputy Special Envoy for Syria Ezzelddin Ramzy have confirmed that Russia and the United Nations are focused on coordination of efforts aimed at resolving t...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from News RSSThe Russian Defense Ministry said the US military instructors have been spotted in the combat zone in eastern Ukraine, training the country’s National Guard in the field, despite promises to hold the exercises at a remote range in Lvov. ...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from TASS: WorldVIENNA, April 23. /TASS/. Russia is viewing a possibility of nuclear material withdrawal from Iran to Russia upon an agreement with the world six powers (comprising five UN permanent member countries - Russia, the United States, United K...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from TASS: WorldMOSCOW, April 23. /TASS/. The falsification of history in Latvia has long become a deliberate policy, says a Russian Foreign Ministry report titled "Neo-Nazism - a Dangerous Challenge to Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law" dedic...
- The Armenian Apostolic Church on April 23 made saints of up to 1.5 million Armenians at an open-air ceremony to commemorate their killing by Ottoman Turks a century ago.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from TASS: WorldVIENNA, April 23. /TASS/. There is no risk of a disruption of talks between Iran and the countries united in the P 5+1 format and many problem issues still remain unresolved, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said answering ...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from News RSSGermany's BND intelligence agency spied on European politicians and companies for the NSA for over a decade, Spiegel Online revealed. But an internal probe showed that at least 40,000 of those spying requests were against German and EU i...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from InformNapalm.org (English)Kremlin needs dead bodies in Ukraine. A lot of them. It needs this not because of cruelty, but because of pragmatism. Kremlin has been talking about Fascist terror in Kyiv for more than a year, but it has no proofs. In Siberia, which is ...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from TASS: Russia/TASS/. Russia's Interior Ministry considers Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov's statement on "shooting to kill" at law enforcement officers inadmissible. "The Russian Interior Ministry believes it inadmissible for the leader of the Chechen ...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from News RSSRussia's major Channel One correspondent covering massive wildfires in Siberia is accused of setting dry grass ablaze for a nice shot for his report. Read Full Article at RT.com
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from EUROMAIDAN PRESSRussia is continually testing NATO and the European Union by now – be it with constant military activities (especially in the Baltic Sea) or in maintaining political relations with many European politicians and states with the goal to sp...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from EUROMAIDAN PRESSIn the European Union the first intergovernmental standard governing archival policies and practices was passed fifteen years ago. Ukraine is also moving towards standardizing policies on archival materials of former regimes. On 9 April ...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from News RSSYemen’s Shiite Houthi rebels have threatened to launch an attack on Saudi Arabia if the bombings in Yemen do not stop. The Zaidi group has sent the warning to Riyadh and demanded that UN-brokered political dialogue be resumed in Yemen. R...
- The Ukrainian Defense Ministry presented information about the use of Russian-made weapons in Luhansk and Donetsk Oblasts to foreign military attaches on April 23, the ministry press service said in a report.
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Sputnik InternationalAn explosion of a fireworks store in the Russian city of Orel has resulted in the death of two and left 19 injured.
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from TASS: WorldVIENNA, April 23. /TASS/. Six world powers (comprising five permanent UN member states - Russia, the United States, Great Britain, France and China - and Germany) have revealed different approaches to how the UN Security Council can re-i...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from EUROMAIDAN PRESSNadiya Savchenko’s mother and sister are traveling the world in a campaign to seek global help for the release of the kidnapped Ukrainian pilot held for more than 300 days in Russian custody. “I’m a desperate mother who...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from TASS: WorldWASHINGTON, April 23. /TASS/. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has urged Russia to stay committed to provisions of the Minsk accords on peace settlement in war-torn eastern Ukraine, the U.S. Department of State said in a press release ...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from TASS: WorldHOLY ETCHMIADZIN, Armenia, April 24. /TASS/. Armenia’s Apostolic Church has declared canonisation of 1.5 million people of Armenian ethnicity annihilated in amassed ethnic purges in the Ottoman Empire in 1915 during a campaign that has b...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from News RSSA senior Dutch forensic expert involved into the investigation of the MH17 plane crash has been dismissed, with further sanctions against him considered after he showed images of plane crash victims to his students. Read Full Article at...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Censor.NET - NewsThe Verkhovna Rada amended the controversial items of the law prohibiting the Communist and Nazi propaganda Thursday, April 23.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from EUROMAIDAN PRESSThe new century brought a tremendous amount of unity and connectedness to the artists worldwide. Many of the world’s famous artists are uniting their efforts against xenophobia, racism, hatred and bullying. However there are regrettable ...
- Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has told his security forces to fire on Russian federal troops if they operate in Chechnya without his permission. His comments follow the killing of a man in the Chechen capital this week by security forces...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from TASS: WorldYEREVAN, April 24. /TASS/. French President Francois Hollande expressed hope on Friday that relations between Turkey and Armenia would get back to normal. "I would like to see the border between these countries open, so that these two so...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from TASS: WorldBISHKEK, April 24. /TASS/. Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member-countries should be ready to counter threats together, Kyrgyzstan’s General Staff deputy head Zakir Tilenov said on Friday. "A very difficult situation is developi...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Radio Prague - Latest articlesIn ice hockey, Litvínov has claimed its first domestic Extraliga title in its history, after beating Třinec 2:0 in the seventh, deciding match of the playoff final series at Třinec’s arena on Thursday night. The tight match was goalless ...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Radio Prague - Latest articlesMusic is life. Life is music. Is music life? And because of all that, we have today I Know That Melody, where we compare Czech songs that have a foreign origin with their foreign counterpart. And today it will be American Pie by Don McLe...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Radio Prague - Latest articlesThe Czech Republic has offered some 60 experts and about ten million crowns to the EU Frontex agency, the Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka said on Thursday after arriving in Brussels to attend the EU emergency summit on the migrant ...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from InternationalLeaders from European Union countries have been called for an extraordinary meeting to discuss the immigration crisis in the Mediterranean sea.
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Czech HappeningsBrussels - The Czech Republic has offered some 60 experts and about ten million crowns to the EU Frontex agency, Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka told reporters today, after the arrival in Brussels...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from The Slovak SpectatorTHE STATE railway company Železnice SR (ŽSR) is not responsible for derailment of RegioJet train on March 16, spokeswoman Martina Pavliková told the TASR newswire on April 23.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Politics - BBJ on the web - BBJ.huThe borders of the European Union must be protected from immigrants and the Hungarian government will soon launch a national consultation on the matter, Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said this morning in his fortnightly interview...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from The Slovak SpectatorTHE GOVERNMENT is to start two new national projects to help people better navigate the job market -- the National System of Occupations (NSP) and the National System of Qualifications (NSK) -- Prime Minister Robert Fico announced at a p...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Radio Prague - Latest articlesThe Tabor Zoo which was facing bankruptcy has been sold to a new owner for 16.2 million crowns and should reopen on June 30th ,the ctk news agency reported. The zoo closed to the public at the beginning of the year although its past owne...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Daily News HungaryBudapest (MTI) – The economy ministry has launched a scheme to entice young Hungarians back home from abroad. The first round of funding totals 100 million forints (EUR 333,000) for relocating 50 young Hungarians based mainly in Lo...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Radio Prague - Latest articlesWith the start of the tourist season in April hundreds of castles and chateaus around the Czech Republic open their doors to visitors. In addition to their historical value these sites have become cultural hubs, providing a wonderful bac...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from NationalA 29-year-old man has died after being shot by police in Kutno, central Poland, following a heated clash after being taken in for questioning by authorities.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from The Slovak SpectatorTHE SOS Bratislavský hrad civic organisation held a concert in Bratislava to point at excavation and construction plans around Bratislava Castle on April 22.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Politics - BBJ on the web - BBJ.huThe Hungarian government has put forward a request to the European Commission for information regarding a HUF 1.5 bln contract given to Altus, a company owned by former Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány, the current leader of the Democrati...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from NationalThe ruling Civic Platform has topped a survey undertaken by CBOS pollsters, although a drop in support puts the party merely six percentage points ahead of closest rivals, the United Right coalition.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Politics - BBJ on the web - BBJ.huMagyarLeaks anti-corruption website operator atlatszo.hu launched the whistleblower protection service beved.hu in cooperation with Átlátszónet Alapítvány, K-Monitor and Transparency International.
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from The Slovak SpectatorVALÉRIA came to Trnava hospital in April 2013 with chronic appendicitis. When she woke up after surgery she felt excruciating pain in her leg. In effort to discover what is wrong with her she asked for video from the surgery that took 95...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from The Slovak SpectatorIF a general election had been held in mid April, the governing Smer party would still win with 34.7 percent of the vote, but this is down slightly from the month before according to the latest opinion poll carried out by Focus polling a...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Radio Prague - Latest articlesAn Internet petition launched by the Open Doors initiative is calling for a ban on the Night Wolves motorcycle rally marking the 70th anniversary of the end of WWII. The gang, which has close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin, wan...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Free Hungary - Breaking news about Hungary .::. TAX, Orbán, Gyurcsány, Matolcsi, Fidesz, CommentsHungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has addressed the 2016 budget currently in preparation, the brokerage fraud scandal, the cabinet's agreement with local banks, immigration, and the planned VAT reduction in his regular interview with...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Politics - BBJ on the web - BBJ.huMore than 3,000 people signed up for a demonstration scheduled for 4.00 pm on April 26 against proposed and already executed changes to Hungary’s education system by the Hungarian government, according to the Facebook page of Szabad Okta...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from InternationalDefence Ministers of the Visegrad countries – Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary – have called for a more significant role of the regional group within the structures of NATO and the European Union.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from The Slovak SpectatorEMPLOYEES of the Regulatory Authority for Electronic Communications and Postal Services (RÚ) experience funny situations due to various odd requirements and statements from both citizens and operators – and not just on April Fools’ Day.
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from NationalBuyers from the Netherlands are the biggest buyers of Polish land among foreigners, the Interior Ministry has said.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from Politics.huHungary will make the second largest contribution among the four Visegrád Group countries to the military battle group they plan to set up jointly by 2016, the country’s defence minister said in Tomasov, in western Slovakia. Csaba Hende ...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency)Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev called on the countries from Southeastern Europe to guarantee the stability of investors in the region. Plevneliev stated this during his meeting with Denis Zvizdic, Chairman of the Council of Ministe...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from English - AGERPRESCFR Calatori (e.n. The CFR division dedicated to passenger travel) is marking the opening of the summer season 2015 by launching the Seaside Trains to link the capital city with the Romanian seaside (Black Sea shore), in two hours, witho...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Independent Balkan News Agency
Bucharest, April 23, 2015/ Independent Balkan News Agency By Daniel Stroe The Romanian Government headed by Prime Minister Victor Ponta and the executive branch in Sofia led by Prime Minister Bojko Borissov are convening in a joint meeti... - Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Latest NewsHospital workers and pharmacists on Friday joined the growing list of those concerned about the legislative decree forcing public bodies to deposit their cash reserves at the Bank of Greece so the central government can use them to pay d...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency)The Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister for Demographic and Social Policies Ivaylo Kalfin proposed on Thursday the introduction of flexible working time. According to the proposal, employees will be allowed to be absent for up to two or thre...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Tanjug agency....Serbia and Baden-Wurttemberg will work together on drafting a project of a bio-energy village that will use biomass to produce electricity, Serbian Minister of Agriculture and Environmental Protection Snezana Bogosavljevic Boskovic told ...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Latest NewsPiraeus Bank has decided to write off debts of up to 20,000 euros stemming from consumer loans and credit cards for its clients who qualify to benefit from the government’s measures against the humanitarian crisis. The bank will also fre...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from B92 News in EnglishRussian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has invited his Serbian counterpart Aleksandar Vucic to visit Moscow. The invitation was extended to Vucic by Russian Ambassador Alexander Chepurin during a meeting in the Serbian government on Thur...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Latest NewsOptimists came out on top at the end of Thursday’s Athens bourse session, as the positive signs from the meeting between Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and German Chancellor Angela Merkel appeared to have give the negotiation process a bo...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Latest NewsA decision by Education Minister Aristides Baltas to abolish the country’s only three English-language undergraduate faculties, in spite of the fact that foreign universities have expressed strong interest in the courses, is to be discus...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from protothemanews.com » World
... for assaulting each other in a domestic abuse case outside the US city of Phoenix - Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Latest NewsAn 18-year-old man arrested trying to cross into Greece illegally from Albania was on his way to Syria to join Islamic State fighters, sources told Kathimerini Thursday.
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Latest NewsPrime Minister Alexis Tsipras and German Chancellor Angela Merkel had “constructive and positive” talks on the sidelines of an immigration summit in Brussels on Thursday, Greek government sources said, noting that there was a “convergenc...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Latest NewsAnother international container shipping company, Taiwan’s Yang Ming Lines, is about to expand its use of the installations of Piraeus Container Terminal (PCT), the local subsidiary of China’s Cosco Pacific. Yang Ming follows the example...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Latest NewsLocals know to avoid the razor-sharp rocks and strong currents near Zefyros Beach on the Greek island of Rhodes. But 93 migrants fleeing war and political chaos on another continent had no idea of the dangers.
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Tanjug agency....The sixteenth anniversary of deaths of 16 Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) employees in the 1999 NATO bombing was commemorated Thursday by families and colleagues of those killed and the laying of wreaths at the memorial erected on the d...
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from B92 News in EnglishFollowing two months of absence representatives of the Serb (Srpska) List list decided on Thursday to return to Kosovo's assembly and government. This happened as they "received assurances in discussions with coalition partners that the ...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Tanjug agency....Capital Summit 2015 is only the first step towards a closer and more efficient regional cooperation, Belgrade Mayor Sinisa Mali said on Thursday.
- Friday, April 24, 2015 from The Sofia Globe
European Union leaders meeting in special session in Brussels to discuss a response to the crisis around the series of deaths of several hundred migrants trying to reach European shores […]
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Latest NewsLaboratory inspections on a white powder found in an envelope that was mailed to the capital’s Evelpidon court complex on Wednesday, prompting a security alert, did not test positive for anthrax or other substances associated with bioter...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Latest NewsAn estimated 800 people died on Sunday when a boat packed with migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe capsized near Libya
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Tanjug agency....Serbia’s Janko Tipsarevic did not make it through to the quarterfinals of the ATP tournament in Bucharest, after losing to Frenchman Gilles Simon 7-5, 6-4 on Thursday.
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Albeu.comJournalist Sokol Balla explained everything related to video, where he appears in intimate moments in his room. In the 17:30 news in Top Channel, Balla explained that an agency in Kosovo and some others in Tirana published the video of h...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency)Bulgarian Agriculture Minister Desislava Taneva announced on Thursday that there were plans for restructuring and closure of agencies, which were under the authority of the ministry. Taneva revealed that apart from the lay-offs and the o...
- Thursday, April 23, 2015 from Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency)Hundreds of citizens and artists gathered in a protest on Thursday in front of the building of the Culture Ministry to demand the resignation of the Bulgarian Culture Minister Vezhdi Rashidov. The protest erupted after Rashidov made cont...
