Italian lawmakers rejected a bid to triple the amount of time undocumented immigrants
can be detained, in a rare defeat for Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s ruling coalition.
Amnesty International is calling on Greek authorities to to address long-standing problems in policing in the wake of this year’s youth uprising .
Police used tear gas and arrested some 100 protesters in Strasbourg, France, on the eve of a two-day summit marking the 60th anniversary of the NATO alliance.
Anti-G-20 protesters clashed with riot police in central London, overwhelming police lines, vandalizing the Bank of England and smashing windows at the Royal Bank of Scotland.
Italy’s ruling right-wing parties—the Forza Italia and National Alliance, a direct descendant of Mussolini’s Fascist party—announced they will merge into a new “People of Freedom” bloc.
Some 130 were arrested at NATO’s headquarters in Brussels and Nieuw Milligen air base in the Netherlands in protests prompted by the upcoming 60th anniversary of the alliance’s founding.
In a setback for Pentagon plans to install a US military radar base in the Czech Republic, the Prague government temporarily withdrew its proposal to ratify an agreement on the installation.
Workers at a Sony plant in Pontonx-sur-l’Adour, France, took hostage the chief executive of the Japanese group’s French arm to press their demands for better severance terms.
A bomb exploded at a Citibank in Athens, gutting the ground floor of the building. Authorities suspect Revolutionary Struggle, a militant group that fired a grenade at the US embassy in 2007.
The “Real IRA” claimed responsibility for an attack that left two soldiers dead and four others, including civilians, seriously injured at the British army’s Massereene Barracks in Antrim.
The CIA submitted a classified document to The Hague listing former Serbian intelligence chief Jovica Stanisic’s collaboration with the US spy agency’s intelligence activities in the ex-Yugoslavia.
An EU court for Kosova reached its first verdict, sentencing ethnic Albanian Gani Gashi to 17 years for guilty of crimes committed during the Kosovo-Serbian conflict in 1998-1999.
