2008-06-13

Finland, Estonia and Greece have all ratified the European Union’s Treaty of Lisbon, also known as the Reform Treaty. This brings the total number of ratifications by member states to 18, with all 27 required to do so if the treaty is to come into effect.
The treaty, so named because the initial signing by the [...]

After the proposed EU Constitution was soundly defeated by the people of Europe in 2005, promoters repackaged it as the Lisbon Treaty. This extraordinary anti-democratic move was intended to secure passage without public referenda. The Irish Constitution however, provided requirements that led to a referendum on the renamed constitution anyway. Not surprisingly, the proposed constitution [...]

2008-05-31

A Warsaw court has sentenced a communist-era policeman to four years in prison for the 1983 killing of a young dissident, overturning a history of four acquittals in the same case over the years.
Ireneusz Kościuk, a former member of communist Poland’s infamous ZOMO riot police units, was found guilty of the fatal beating of 19-year [...]

2008-05-29

During a one-day visit to Warsaw on Tuesday French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced that his country would lift job restrictions on the citizens of some of the European Union’s former communist states. He also promised a deal aimed at bringing Ukraine closer to the bloc but seemed to play down its chances of membership.
France was [...]

2008-05-26

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EARLY CHILDHOOD SCREENING PREDICTS LATER BEHAVIORAL PROBLEMS
Significant emotional or behavioral problems are [...]

2008-05-24

A bus crash in France’s Loire Valley has left seven of the Moroccan passengers dead. 22 of the 32 on board were injured, four critically, after the bus smashed into a concrete pillar on the A10 near Blois in the small hours of yesterday morning.
The bus had departed Tiznit in South Morocco on Wednesday and [...]

2008-05-22

Two Swedish men that were arrested for being suspected of sabotaging the Oskarshamn Nuclear Power Plant in Sweden, have been released from police custody. Both men were arrested on Wednesday after traces of Acetone Peroxide, or TATP were found on a plastic bag. TATP is also an organic peroxide which is sometimes used in making [...]

2008-05-21

A man in Sweden was arrested after security officials at the Oskarshamn Nuclear Power Plant discovered traces of an explosive material on his bag. Oskarshamnsverkets Kraftgrupp OKG operates the plant, which is one of three nuclear power plants in Sweden.
Reports say that on the outside of his bag was Acetone peroxide, or TATP, primarily used [...]

2008-05-20

A court in the central Polish city of Łódź on May 19 sentenced the first of three politicians accused in the sex-for-jobs scandal that helped bring down Poland’s last coalition government. The verdict signals that there may be trouble ahead for two of the party’s leaders who are also on trial.
Samoobrona (Self-defense) rural protest party [...]

2008-05-19

Thirty-eight individuals with ties to international organized crime have been charged in two separate indictments involving computer and credit card fraud schemes, Deputy Attorney General Mark R. Filip, Romanian Prosecutor General Laura Codruta Kovesi, U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California Thomas P. O’Brien and Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut Nora [...]

2008-05-18

A man who hijacked a domestic flight over Afghanistan has been found to be working for British Airways.
34-year-old Nazamuddin Mohammidy was one of nine men who forced the Ariana Airlines airliner to divert to the United Kingdom’s Stansted Airport in 2000. A standoff followed for the next 70 hours with the men, who had guns [...]

2008-05-17

A Warsaw court threw out an indictment against nine persons accused of illegally imposing martial law in communist Poland in December 1981. In handing the case back to National Remembrance Institute (IPN) prosecutors it pointed out “significant shortcomings” in the underlying investigation and requesting testimony from several world leaders from that time, including British Prime [...]

2008-05-14

A car bomb car exploded today at 3:00 AM CEST (UTC+2) in the Basque town of Legutiano, near the barracks of the Spanish paramilitary police Guardia Civil. A policeman died and 4 more were injured. The Basque separatist group ETA was blamed for this attack by authorities, but no one has claimed responsibility yet.
The dead [...]

2008-05-05

Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager, the last surviving member of a cabal that on July 20, 1944 attempted to kill Adolf Hitler with a briefcase bomb, has died at the age of 90, according to a statement released Friday by the German Bundeswehr.
Von Boeselager, then a Major in the German Wehrmacht, was one of a number [...]

2008-04-22

Abkhaz rebels shot down a Georgian spy plane recently, according to the foreign ministry of Russia. Georgian officials have blamed Russia for the incident. Putin, the Russian President, said that he was bewildered by the Georgian government’s alleged move of sending a spy plane into that area.
Russia has denied any involvement with the shooting. International [...]

2008-04-20

A bus accident near the Spanish coastal resort town of Benalmádena has killed nine passengers and injured 35, all of whom were Finnish, police said Saturday night.
The bus collided with a sport utility vehicle on a highway along the Spanish coast, causing the bus to veer off the road and overturn. The driver of the [...]

2008-04-18

A man was arrested in Bristol, United Kingdom on suspicion of terrorism Friday. There has also been a controlled explosion. Parts of the city were evacuated. The person who was arrested is believed to be 19 years old.
Assistant chief constable for Avon and Somerset police commented on the incident. “During yesterday and overnight, Avon and [...]

Indonesian officials have expressed displeasure with a decision by the European Union to leave all 51 of the nation’s air carriers on the list of air carriers banned in the EU. State-owned flag carrier Garuda Indonesia had hoped to begin flights to Europe imminently and has ordered ten new jetliners to serve routes there and [...]

2008-04-12

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero was today sworn in for his second term as Prime Minister of Spain. He also announced his new cabinet, which for the first time includes more women than men.
Zapatero was sworn in at a brief ceremony in Zarzuela Palace. He took the oath of office with his hand upon a copy [...]

2008-04-11

According to reports, authorities in Belgium have seized documents, financial records and computer equipment form the local branch of the Church of Scientology and then sealed off the building.
According to reports, the Church in Belgium is being investigated for extortion and fraud after posting false job openings in newspapers then attempting to get those who [...]