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.
Bosnia war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic refused to enter pleas to charges of genocide and crimes against humanity in a hearing of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
Arguments began in the new trial of former Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, accused of embezzling and laundering nearly $20 billion from Yukos Oil.
Supporters of outlawed Basque parties say that without the banning of their slate, they would be the majority in the regional parliament, with more than 100,000 voting for the banned candidates.
Former Serbian President Milan Milutinovic was acquitted of war crimes charges by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia—although five co-defendants were convicted.
