30 December 2013 – Members of the United Nations Security Council said they are “outraged” by today’s terrorist attack targeting…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
Disasters including the floods that struck central Europe in June caused global economic losses of about $130 billion in 2013, reinsurer Swiss Re said on Wednesday. The insurance industry is likely to cover about $44 billion (32 billion euros) of all…
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…