Four suspected members of armed Basque separatist group ETA were arrested in Bayonne, France—including military commander Mikel Kabikoitz Carrera Sarobe, Spain’s most wanted man.
The Greek Parliament passed the austerity package, with protesters gathering outside the Parliament’s doors. The deaths of three bank workers in a fire set by protesters has polarized Greece.
Police clashed in Athens May 1 with thousands of protesters marching against new austerity measures the Greek government is to adopt. A general strike is called for May 5.
Russian authorities say they suspect a North Caucasus militant group in the coordinated suicide blasts that left at least 35 dead on the Moscow metro.
In the latest in a wave of attacks on Roma families, assailants threw petrol bombs into four homes in Siófok, Hungary. The attack follows a nearly identical one days earlier in the Czech Republic.
A court in Marseilles ordered that inflammatory anti-Islamic campaign posters put up by the far-right National Front be taken down following a complaint from Algeria.
The Bosnia and Herzegovina war crimes court indicted the former Serb commander of a special police brigade for his alleged role in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.
Serbia’s Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor announced the arrest of nine individuals suspected of committing war crimes during the 1998-1999 Kosovo war.
Striking Greek workers shut down transport and tried to storm the parliament building in Athens as lawmakers passed 4.8 billion euros ($6.5 billion) in budget cuts.
Amid strikes and protests against new austerity measures imposed by the Greek government, a bomb exploded at the Athens offices of JP Morgan, causing damage but no injuries.
Russia’s foreign ministry voiced its concern at Romania’s plans to host part of a new US “missile shield” system for Europe, demanding explanations from Washington.
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Vygaudas Usackas resigned Jan. 21 in the midst of a dispute with President Dalia Grybauskaite over secret CIA secret prisons in the country.
