BRUSSELS, Belgium — After five years of economic headlines dominating Europe, politics could be back in 2014. The states of southern Europe will be hoping their fragile signs of recovery after years of recession will firm up in 2014, but no one’…
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30 December 2013 – Members of the United Nations Security Council said they are “outraged” by today’s terrorist attack targeting…
The eurozone is finally set to return to growth in 2014 but the single currency bloc may not have put its crisis behind it as efforts to shore up its banks could boomerang. After beating back market panic that the eurozone was set to break up, eurozone…
Shareholders of Italy’s troubled Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena — the world’s oldest bank — on Saturday voted to postpone until mid-2014 a giant capital increase needed to stave off nationalisation. Management had wanted the 3.0-billion-euro ($4.…
24 December 2013 – Two United Nations human rights experts today criticized the British Government’s decision to replace an independent…
European stock markets rose in light pre-holiday trading on the coattails of Wall Street gains on renewed confidence in the strength of the US economic recovery, with Frankfurt setting a new record high. London’s benchmark FTSE 100 index gained 1.09…
Nuremberg’s Dutch coach Gertjan Verbeek has vowed not to shave until his side pick up their first win of the season — even if he ends up looking like Santa Claus. Verbeek’s Nuremberg finish 2013 as the only team in any of Europe’s top leagues without…
• Brazil suffers record number of football violence deaths
• Ultras in eastern Europe, Russian and Italy pose huge threat
• Unrest in Africa spontaneous rather than planned
• Owen Gibson: World Cup – and outbreak of supporter violence – link Brazil and Russia
As a brand, Santa Claus has one major flaw: he is only really valuable a few weeks at the end of each year. In Finland, they’re trying to do something about this. Petri Paarnio, director of Santa Claus Licencing, the firm that holds the rights to market…
ÃÂ Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho rued over missed chances as his team continues to show lack lustrous form in England and Europe. The Stamford Bridge boss admits his side is starting to feel the pressure of the poor form his side has recorded. ÃÂ …
The European Union took a historic leap towards greater integration just hours ahead of a summit Thursday, with a deal on a banking union aimed at preventing a repeat of the eurozone’s crippling crises of the past. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, just…
18 December 2013 – The Security Council today extended the mandates of judges at the United Nations tribunal set up…
Public prosecutors on Monday called for British budget airline easyJet to be fined 70,000 euros ($96,000) for having forced a disabled woman off a flight. In one of two cases before French courts this week involving claims against easyJet from wheelchair…
13 December 2013 – The United Nations today called on all parties in Ukraine to exercise restraint amid reports of…
9 December 2013 – A United Nations human rights expert and the World Medical Association (WMA) today urged the Turkish…
8 December 2013 – With hundreds of thousands of protestors reportedly rallying anew in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, General…
5 December 2013 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today hailed the vital partnership between the United Nations and the Organization for…
2 December 2013 – Amid ongoing political protests in Ukraine, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon today appealed for restraint and urged…
2 December 2013 – Welcoming the peaceful conduct of local Kosovo elections, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called on…
23 November 2013 – Four people have been arrested for alleged witness tampering in the war crimes trial of former…