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.
Spain’s National Court convicted five people for their involvement in the 2004 Madrid train bombings on charges of supporting terrorist groups that planned attacks.
Spanish Judge Fernando Grande-Marlaska ruled that Basque separatist group ETA had tried three times to assassinate former Spanish prime minister José Maria Aznar in 2001.
Jean-Francois Cope, leader of France’s conservative party, introduced legislation that would ban wearing of the burqa in public and make it punishable by 750 euros.
More than a thousand African immigrants were put aboard buses and trains in southern Italy and shipped out to detention centers, following an outbreak of violence in the town of Rosarno.
