Czech Green Party MP Olga Zubová wrote an open letter to US President-elect Barack Obama, asking him to review the US commitment to the planned military radar base on Czech soil for the proposed “missile shield.” “For the Czech Republic… Read moreCzech Green Party MP asks Obama to reconsider missile shield
On Nov. 11, Poland’s Independence Day, the extreme right group National Radical Camp (Oboz Narodowo-Radykalny-ONR) marched in Warsaw, in its second public show of strength this year. ONR also marched in June to commemorate the 1936 anti-Jewish pogrom in Myslenic…. Read moreNeo-Nazis, anti-fas clash in Warsaw
On the morning of Nov. 11, some 150 French police—including elite anti-terrorist forces—raided a farm at Tarnac in the Millevaches plateau and arrested nine young people, who ran the local grocery store. Four days later, the nine were sent before… Read moreFrance: autonomist youth targeted in Tarnac Nine case
The Czech Republic‘s Prima TV is claiming evidence that members of the security forces took part in an attempted attack on the Roma ghetto in the town of Litvinov last week. Some 500 black-masked protesters shouting racist slogans marched Nov…. Read moreCzech security forces participated in anti-Roma pogrom?
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
