Icelandic protesters clashed with police in Reykjavik Nov. 23 during a demonstration against the government’s handling of the country’s severe financial crisis. Several hundred gathered outside the city’s main police station to demand the release of a man arrested in… Read moreEcono-riots rock Iceland
In a joint operation by French and Spanish police, Miguel de Garikoitz Aspiazu Rubina AKA “Txeroki” (Cherokee)—Spain’s most wanted terror suspect and purported military head of ETA—was arrested Nov. 16 in the resort town of Cauterets in the French Pyrenees,… Read moreETA leader “Txeroki” arrested in France; EU peace process called for
Riot police beat back some 15,000 protesters attempting to block a train carrying nuclear waste from western France to a disposal center at Gorleben in Germany Nov. 9. In Germany’s largest and most violent anti-nuclear protest since 2001, activists set… Read moreGerman protesters block nuclear waste train
Unprecedented Muslim representation was seen at the Nov. 10 “Special Event Promoting Tolerance Throughout the European Continent” at the European Parliament in Brussels. Representatives of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Pakistan, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Libya, Morocco, Turkey and Malaysia, among… Read moreMuslim states to join EU Kristallnacht memorial
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev Nov. 5, the day after Barack Obama‘s election as US president, made his first state-of-the-nation address since he took office in May—and pledged to deploy a short-range missile system in Russia’s Baltic Sea enclave of Kaliningrad… Read moreObama to face new nuclear arms race in Europe
Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic refused to answer questions at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Nov. 5 at the appeals hearing of Momcilo Krajisnik. Krajisnick, a former Bosnian Serb parliamentary leader, is appealing a… Read moreKaradzic refuses testimony against former ally
Up to two million marched in Rome’s Circus Maximus Oct. 25 to protest the government of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi under the slogans “Save Italy” and “Another Italy is possible.” Walter Veltroni, leader of the center-left opposition, told the crowds… Read moreItaly: mega-march against Berlusconi
High-profile Croatian journalist Ivo Pukanic, publisher of the muckraking opposition weekly Nacional, was killed along with his marketing chief Niko Franjic in a bomb blast in central Zagreb Oct. 23. The bomb reportedly exploded under his car and was detonated… Read moreCroatia: terror blast kills journalist
Bernardino Terracciano, the Naples man who played himself in the award-winning film Gomorra about the Neapolitan mob is among seven men arrested Oct. 12 on organized crime charges. Terracciano—the burly, menacing local boss “Zi’ Bernardino” (Uncle Bernardino) in Matteo Garrone’s… Read moreNaples crime war: life imitates art imitating life
The UN’s International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) sentenced Bosnian Army Gen. Rasim Delic to three years in prison Sept. 15 for crimes committed by foreign Islamic fighters against captive Bosnian Serb soldiers during the 1992-1995 war. Gen…. Read moreBosnian war crimes defendant blames al-Qaeda
The Camorra, the Naples organized crime machine, has declared “war on the state,” Interior Minister Roberto Maroni told the Italian Senate Sept. 24, one day after the government authorized sending 500 soldiers to the Campania region in response to the… Read moreItaly: Camorra declares “war on the state”
At least six were injured and 15 arrested as far-right protesters clashed with police, threw stones and petrol bombs and damaged shops and cars along Andrassy Boulevard in Budapest Sept. 20. Police fired tear gas and water cannons on the… Read moreNeo-fascists riot in Budapest
