Greek riot police attack protesting school teachers in the capital Athens on the eve of Independence Day celebrations, making 29 arrests.
Thu Mar 22, 2012 11:41PM
Portuguese police have attacked demonstrators protesting nationwide against the government’s austerity measures.
Thu Mar 22, 2012 6:43AM
Portuguese workers have staged protest rallies in the capital Lisbon as the country is bracing for a new general strike against the government’s austerity measures.
Tue Mar 20, 2012 2:31AM
The Polish police say they have confiscated counterfeit US treasury bonds worth 100 million dollars.
Mon Mar 19, 2012 12:29AM
A bus carrying a sports club’s youth team has collided with a car in central Poland, injuring at least 17 of the passengers.
Sun Mar 18, 2012 11:48PM
The Greek seamen’s federation has announced a two-day-long strike to demand the state to continue funding its members’ pensions and collective labor agreements throughout 2012.
Sat Mar 17, 2012 6:50PM
Standard & Poor's credit rating agency has lowered its outlook for Ukraine from stable to negative after Kiev asked the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to postpone repayments of its bailout, Press TV reports.
Sat Mar 17, 2012 12:5AM
Spain has approved an application for oil exploration by the Spanish oil and gas company Repsol YPF off the coast of the autonomous Canary Islands.
Wed Mar 14, 2012 7:25AM
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A bus accident in the southwestern Swiss town of Sierre has claimed the lives of 28 Belgian tourists, 22 of whom were children.
Tue Mar 13, 2012 2:13AM
The imam of a mosque in Brussels has been killed in an arson attack on the house of worship, according to Belgian police.
Sun Mar 11, 2012 8:26AM
Slovakia’s left-wing Smear-Social Democracy Party wins a majority in country’s parliamentary elections by securing almost 45 percent of the votes.
Sat Mar 10, 2012 7:28PM
Thousands of Hungarians have held an anti-government protest demanding greater support for the poor, a fairer tax system and the preservation of free higher education.
Sat Mar 10, 2012 3:27PM
People are voting in Slovakia's early parliamentary elections brought on by the government's collapse in a confidence vote after a major corruption scandal.
Sat Mar 10, 2012 8:15AM
Italian President Giorgio Napolitano has criticized the British government over its failure to inform Italy before launching a failed hostage rescue mission in Nigeria.
Fri Mar 9, 2012 4:0PM
Italian metal workers strike the planned changes to their contracts and labor laws.
Thousands of trade unionists have protested in Rome, on a day of strikes against planned changes to their contracts and labor laws by the government to overhaul labor market regulations.
Thu Mar 8, 2012 6:3PM
Senior British lawmakers say the UK government’s view that the new world developments have not diminished Britain’s role in global affairs is totally “unrealistic.”
Wed Mar 7, 2012 6:55PM
A Romanian lawmaker has been punished by his Party after denying the country’s late pro-Nazi leader Ion Antonescu's responsibility in the Holocaust during World War II.
Wed Mar 7, 2012 4:46PM
Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik has been indicted with committing acts of terror and voluntary homicide for slaying 77 people in a bomb and shooting rampage.
Mon Mar 5, 2012 10:53AM
Iceland’s former Prime Minister Geir Haarde is to go on trial over charges of leading the country, once proud of its oversized banking sector, to bankruptcy in 2008.
Sun Mar 4, 2012 4:36PM
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The death toll from the head-on collision between two passenger trains in Poland has raised to 16 as rescuers have been working through the night to recover bodies from the crash site.
Fri Mar 2, 2012 7:43AM
Public transport workers in Greece have launched a nationwide 24-hour-long strike in protest at the parliament’s imposition of new cuts on the health service costs in the country.
Fri Mar 2, 2012 2:55AM
Greek police have arrested an ex-employee who in anger at losing his job had shot his boss and one other worker and taken two other people hostage.
Fri Mar 2, 2012 1:2AM
European Union leaders have granted Serbia official candidate status, a move that puts the Balkan state on the long road to join the 27-nation bloc.
Thu Mar 1, 2012 8:37AM
Italian police have clashed with anti-rail protesters demonstrating against a high-speed rail link between France and Italy.
Thu Mar 1, 2012 1:11AM
Belarus has slammed the European Union's synchronized move to recall its diplomats from Minsk, saying the EU is scaremongering.
Wed Feb 29, 2012 12:49AM
The Greek parliament has passed a new set of budget cuts to secure a eurozone bailout, which it needs to avoid a catastrophic default next month.
Sun Feb 26, 2012 10:35AM
Spanish King Juan Carlos’ son-in-law has been questioned in a courthouse over money laundry and corruption allegations in one of Spain’s longest-running corruption scandals.
Thu Feb 23, 2012 12:18AM
Thousands of Spaniards have poured onto the streets in the city of Valencia to protest against police brutality and education spending cuts.
Sat Feb 18, 2012 10:14AM
Belarus has condemned a recent resolution by the European Parliament against Minsk over practicing capital punishment, describing the move as a serious “interference” in its internal affairs.
Sat Feb 18, 2012 3:28AM
Italy’s anti-mafia prosecutors, in a joint operation with Swiss and US agents, have seized $6 trillion in fake US Treasury bonds stored in safe deposit boxes in Switzerland.
Thu Feb 16, 2012 2:19AM
Italy has reentered into a recessionary period following a series of severe budget cuts as the eurozone's third largest economy braces for even worse economic woes in 2012.
Wed Feb 15, 2012 10:2PM
Italian prosecutors have demanded a court in Milan to give a five-year-long jail term to the country’s former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi for bribery.
Mon Feb 13, 2012 4:7PM
Serbs in northern Kosovo are going ahead with a referendum this week, in which citizens voice their opinion as to whether they accept the institutions of the so-called Republic of Kosovo.
Mon Feb 13, 2012 2:32AM
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The Greek parliament has approved a controversial bill, which includes a new round of austerity cuts, despite days of protests against the prospect.
Mon Feb 13, 2012 1:4AM
A massive avalanche in a village in southern Kosovo has killed at least nine people and flattened seven houses.
Sun Feb 12, 2012 11:13PM
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Violence has flared up in the Greek capital of Athens as anti-austerity protesters set several buildings ablaze and storm a weaponry outlet after clashing with the riot police, Press TV reports.
Sun Feb 12, 2012 8:24AM
Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of the Austrian capital Vienna to voice their opposition to the multi-national Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), Press TV reports.
Sat Feb 11, 2012 7:28AM
Police forces in Spain have clashed with anti-austerity demonstrators protesting against the conservative government’s Labor Reform law.
Fri Feb 10, 2012 9:53AM
The death toll from a nearly-two-week-long cold spell in Europe has exceeded 500 and caused the continent’s busiest waterway, the Danube, to freeze.
Thu Feb 9, 2012 11:22AM
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Greece's two largest unions have announced a 48-hour strike over the new austerity measures endorsed by the government in return for bailout loans.
Thu Feb 9, 2012 2:14AM
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Coalition leaders in Greece have failed to reach a full agreement on new sets of cuts necessary for securing a new bailout to avoid default on the country’s public debt.
Wed Feb 8, 2012 1:58PM
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Spain’s newly-elected Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has warned that the near 23 percent unemployment rate in the country will rise even further this year.
Wed Feb 8, 2012 12:10AM
Thousands of people have taken to the streets in the Spanish capital Madrid, protesting against the conservative government’s austerity policies and planned social spending cuts.
Tue Feb 7, 2012 3:26AM
A Norwegian court has rejected a demand by the country’s mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik that he be released immediately.
Mon Feb 6, 2012 2:52AM
The leader of far-right Greek opposition party, LAOS, has dismissed calls from international lenders to implement harsher austerity cuts to secure a bailout, saying it would backfire on Europe.
Mon Feb 6, 2012 12:39AM
Sauli Niinisto of Finland’s conservative and pro-European National Coalition Party has won the second round of voting in the country’s presidential election.
Sun Feb 5, 2012 9:57PM
Severe cold weather sweeping across Europe has claimed more victims, raising the death toll to at least 300 as countries from Italy to Ukraine struggle to cope with the record low temperature.
Sun Feb 5, 2012 6:48PM
The Bulgarian Foreign Minister says US military bases in the country will not be used for a potential US strike on Iran over Tehran’s peaceful nuclear program.
Fri Feb 3, 2012 11:15AM
Freezing temperatures in Europe have pushed the continent's death toll from the latest cold spell to 218 amid dire forecasts of further winter chills, Press TV reports.
Thu Feb 2, 2012 6:27AM
Public transportation workers in Portugal have staged a one-day strike in protest against the government's efforts to downsize the sector.
