Police intervened against a march by the far-right Slovak Brotherhood in front of the castle in Bratislava, amid a controversy about fascist symbols in a new statue of Prince Svatopluk on the castle grounds.
In a move protested by rights groups, French President Nicolas Sarkozy will evict some 300 squatter camps in a sweeping crackdown on Roma immigrants and “travellers.”
The Hague’s ruling that Kosova’s declaration of independence was not illegal is predictably applauded by the US and Kosova and protested by Russia and Serbia—yet it resolves nothing.
World leaders commemorated the 1995 Srebrenica massacre July 11, and genocide convictions have been handed down—but the accused massacre mastermind Ratko Mladic remains at large.
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.
