The Polish government signed a deal Aug. 14 to host a 10 interceptor missiles at a site along Poland‘s Baltic Sea coast as a part of the US “missile shield” plan. The site, staffed by US forces, would complement a… Read morePoland signs US “missile shield” deal; Russia pledges “punishment”
Misha Glenny writes for the New Statesman, July 24: Looking a little like God in a Cecil B DeMille film, Radovan Karadzic was genuinely unrecognisable when he was arrested on a Belgrade bus last Monday evening. Yet even more astonishing… Read moreRadovan Karadzic: Sensitive New Age Guy
In the third incident this month at a French nuclear plant, 100 employees were “slightly contaminated” July 23 at the Tricastin plant in the southern Vaucluse region, according to the EDF power company. EDF insisted the exposure was well below… Read moreFrench nuclear industry shaken by string of accidents
Wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was detained July 21 in Serbia, government sources in Belgrade report. He has been wanted by international authorities since 1996 on genocide charges. A statement by Serbia’s National Security Council, headed by President Boris… Read moreSerbia: Radovan Karadzic reported arrested
The European Parliament approved 336-220 a resolution branding Italy’s fingerprinting members of the country’s Roma community a direct act of racial discrimination, and called on Rome to bring the program to an immediate halt. Italy’s Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said… Read moreEU raps Italy on Roma fingerprint program
An Italian court July 15 found 15 officials guilty of brutalizing protesters at the Genoa G8 summit in 2001. Sentences ranged from five months to five years. The accused include police, prison officials and two doctors. Another 30 were cleared… Read moreItaly: cops convicted in Genoa G8 repression
Belgian Prime Minister Yves Leterme submitted his resignation July 14, citing the inability of his coalition government to successfully divide powers between the Flemish and French-speaking communities. Leterme had set a deadline of July 15 for the four-month-old coalition to… Read moreSplitsville for Belgium?
On July 10—one day before the 13th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre—a Dutch court ruled it has no jurisdiction in a civil suit against the United Nations by genocide survivors from the eastern Bosnian town. Survivors’ association Mothers of Srebrenica… Read moreSrebrenica 13 years later: still no justice
Neo-Nazis fired tear gas at the rally following the June 28 Queer Parade at Svobody Square in the Czech city of Brno, sparking a 45-minute melee. Paramedics treated around ten people. Police said 15 anti-gay protesters were arrested. As the… Read moreCzech Republic: neo-Nazis attack gay pride march
Serbs in Kosova inaugurated their own assembly June 28 at the divided city of Mitrovica—in defiance of the Albanian-led government and the UN. Forty-five members were elected in May during Serbia’s general and municipal elections. The ballot was declared illegal… Read moreKosova can’t get unstuck in time
On June 18 the European Union (EU) Parliament passed guidelines that would allow member countries to hold immigrants in special detention centers for up to 18 months before being deported. The guidelines are meant to standardize the way EU members… Read moreLatin America: anger at EU immigration measure
Spanish police and Civil Guards cracked down on striking truckers June 11, with 25,000 deployed to clear blocked highways, arresting dozens. Catalan provincial police joined with French law enforcement to clear an eight-kilometer line of trucks that had closed a… Read moreSpanish police break truckers’ strike
