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Flights in and out of Budapest's Ferihegy International Airport were cancelled on Wednesday following an indefinite walkout by staff.
A few flights made it out shortly after the strike began at 6 am. However, the airport shortly descended into chaos after security staff joined the strike, cutting off the flow of passengers to the...
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Austria's post offices were partially closed Wednesday, as postal workers protested plans to downsize the mail service.
Employees at around 80 branches were on strike, but mail delivery went on uninterrupted, Oesterreichische Post AG said in a statement.
The protests came one day before the post's management meets to discuss...
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The situation in the Greek capital Athens calmed down early Tuesday after three days of heavy rioting, triggered by the fatal police shooting of a teenager, media reports said, but unrest was likely to continue.
Violence was concentrated on the area around the Polytechnic University, where several dozen hooded youths were still...
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The Greek capital Athens and dozens of other cities were left crippled Tuesday after several days of arson and looting, triggered by the fatal shooting of a teenager by police.
Described as the worst riots in decades, thick black smoke, flames and tear gas had engulfed central Athens for hours as students set fire to cars, banks,...
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Greece braced for more widespread protests and possible violence Tuesday with the funeral of the teenager who was fatally shot by police over the weekend, triggering the worst rioting the country has seen in decades.
Widespread riots first erupted late Saturday shortly after the shooting of the teenage boy by a police officer in the...
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Japanese investment bank Nomura said Thursday it would axe 1,000 jobs at their offices in London over the next few months under moves to ensure that the company remained "competitive in the current economic conditions."
Nomura said the job losses from its 4,500 strong workforce in Britain would establish the "right cost...
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Greece's health ministry is pushing to implement a ban outlawing smoking in all public places, including restaurants, bars and offices by the summer - a half year earlier than required by law.
The new law does not require implementation until January 1, 2010. But Greek Health Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos announced in parliament that...
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Berlin refused to comment Friday on the arrest in Kosovo of three Germans in connection with an attack on the European Union (EU) headquarters in Pristina.
A German Government spokesman declined to be drawn on speculation about the possible involvement of Berlin's security services (BND) in the case and instead pointed to the ongoing...
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A new ceiling artwork meant to inspire dialogue, human rights and global solidarity was unveiled Tuesday at the United Nation's Geneva offices.
The work, created by Spanish abstract painter Miquel Barcelo, graces a room where groups like the UN's Human Rights Council and the High Level Group of the Alliance of Civilizations...
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European Union countries must improve their energy efficiency and stop using the financial crisis as an excuse not to reduce pollution, the bloc's top officials said Thursday.
"The financial crisis has not diminished the risks to our planet deriving from climate change," European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso...
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The head of a German armoured van company where executives were quietly helping themselves to the customers' cash was jailed Friday for 11 years.
Karl-Heinz Weis, 60, was convicted of misappropriation and embezzlement in the northern city of Hildesheim. He had already been convicted in May 2007 of related offences including...
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Legislators in the German state of Bavaria elected a new premier, Horst Seehofer, 59, on Monday after the party he leads, the Christian Social Union (CSU), lost its absolute majority at the polls.
He comfortably won the vote by a 104-71 margin, though four members of the new state coalition, comprising the CSU and the small...
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Unknown vandals have knocked over and, in some cases, destroyed 131 headstones in Bucharest's Jewish cemetery.
According to the Mediafax news agency on Friday, the vandals also smashed windows in the administrative offices of the cemetery in Romania's capital.
Some office equipment was also destroyed.
No anti-Semitic slogans...
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Main Swedish banking groups Nordea, Swedbank and SEB on Thursday reported third-quarter results suggesting they had weathered the first phases of the financial turmoil.
Shares for all three groups were mid-morning in positive territory on the Stockholm bourse where the OMXS index was flat. The fourth major group Handelsbanken, which...
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German police led by prosecutors searched the offices of a federally owned bank Wednesday in connection with a banking blunder last month as the financial crisis developed.
The KfW bank remitted 319 million euros to Lehman Brothers of New York on September 15, the day that the US investment bank failed.
The main office of KfW in...
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Bavarian Finance Minister Erwin Huber said Wednesday he was stepping down from his post in the wake of the financial crisis that has engulfed the state-owned state BayernLB bank.
The troubled Munich-based BayernLB this week asked for 5.4 billion euros (7.1 billion dollars) from Berlin's bank rescue plan as a result, becoming the...
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The trial of 86 people accused of plotting to create havoc in order to prepare the ground for a military coup got under way in Istanbul on Monday.
The long-awaited trial of the so-called Ergenekon gang began some 17 months after police discovered hand grenades in an Istanbul house belonging to a former non-commissioned officer.
An...
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In a one-day legislative marathon, German legislators signed off Friday one of world's biggest bail-outs, injecting 480 billion euros (650 billion dollars) into shaky banks.
The Bundestag lower chamber passed the bill with only two small opposition parties, the Left and the Greens, opposed.
But the bill is still not law until the...
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The economic outlook is grim for central and eastern Europe (CEE) in general and the Baltic states in particular, according to a report released Wednesday by Scandinavian bank SEB.
In its latest Eastern European Outlook, SEB's Mikael Johansson warned: "Countries with large external imbalances - the three Baltic countries and...
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 Officials stated that a Tamil Tiger suicide bomber caused an entire blast in the main building of the opposition party in Sri Lanka on Monday. The explosion killed nearly 27 people, among which there was a retired senior general. The attack occurred in the town of Anuradhapura and it seems that it represented an act of revenge against...
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As Germany sought to calm the public with a "decisive" pledge about savings property lender Hypo Real Estate (HRE) came under pressure Monday from other banks and Berlin to sack its chief executive after HRE needed a vast bail-out.
Questions about the German government assurance of an estimated 1 trillion euros (1.4 trillion...
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The Irish Association of Pension Funds has warned that some private pension funds would collapse during the current financial crisis unless action was taken to shore them up, national broadcaster RTE reported Thursday.
The association had sent proposals to the government on how to deal with the problem, association chairman Patrick...
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The banking crisis spread to Germany on Monday, with the government and fellow banks forced to throw a 35-billion-euro (50-billion-dollar) lifeline to Hypo Real Estate (HRE), a mortgage lender.
The bail-out, the same day as Britain nationalized lender Bradford & Bingley (B&B) and a day after three governments took stakes in...
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The maiden flight of the much-delayed European military transport plane A400M is being postponed because the engines are still not ready, manufacturer EADS said Thursday from its German offices in Munich.
The propellor plane is intended as Europe's answer to the Lockheed C-130 Hercules, but the project at planemaker Airbus has...
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Spain's National Court has handed 21 members of a Basque separatist organization prison terms ranging from 8 to 10 years for links with the militant Basque separatist group ETA, the court said Wednesday.
The court also ordered the dissolution of Gestoras Pro Amnistia, which is seeking an amnesty for more than 500 ETA activists...
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A pub packed with memorabilia of the Stasi has caused outrage among victims of the former East German secret police.
An East German flag draped behind the bar and shredded surveillance logs are among the decorations in The Firm, located in an East Berlin Street where the Stasi headquarters used to be.
On one of the walls there is a...
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Eighty-six staunch secularists are to be tried
on terrorism-related charges after a year-long investigation into an
alleged plot to destabilize Turkey and create the conditions for the
military to carry out a coup to depose the moderate Islamist government
of Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Unveiling a 2,455-page indictment on Monday,...
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 A British Muslim accused of plotting to blow up
transatlantic jets admitted he planned to explode a device at a U.K airport
terminal, AFP reports.
27-year-old Abdulla Ahmed Ali also said he intended to set
off a device in the Houses of Parliament in London
in order to attract attention to an online documentary attacking...
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 The British government Thursday denounced as "reprehensible" Russia's
actions in the current diplomatic row over cultural activities, and
said the methods used by the Russian authorities were reminiscent of
the Cold War.
But Foreign Secretary David Miliband, while condemning Moscow's
behaviour over the activities of the...
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 The simmering tension between Russia and Britain took a further bizarre
twist Wednesday with the arrest of a senior British Council official in
St Petersburg - who also happens to be son of a prominent British
Labour Party politician.
The government in London gave a furious reaction to the arrest on
charges of drunk driving of...
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 Russia announced putative measures against Britain's cultural offices
on Monday as they came back to work from holiday break, defying Russian
orders to shut down.
The Russian Foreign Ministry called Britain's move a "deliberate
provocation," in spiralling bilateral relations since the 2006
poisoning in London of former...
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 Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili secured re-election Wednesday
according to official vote counts vehemently rejected by the
opposition, which vows to continue its ongoing protest.
With barely two per cent of the vote left to tally, the election
commission website showed Wednesday that Saakashvili led decisively
with 52.21...
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 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov slammed Britain Friday for
knowingly "violating international law," as Russia ordered British
Council offices across Russia to close.
Anglo-Russian relations have sunk to Cold War lows after Moscow
refused to extradite an ex-KGB bodyguard suspected of murdering Kremlin
critic...
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 One person was killed Thursday when a parcel bomb exploded near the
offices of a Paris law firm founded by French President Nicolas
Sarkozy, the public prosecutor of Paris, Jean- Claude Marin, said.
The victim worked as a secretary for a law firm on the fourth floor
of the building in the elegant Eight Arrondissement in central...
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 Russian voters went to the polls Sunday in parliamentary elections
expected to deliver a sweeping victory to President Vladimir Putin's
party.
Accusations that Putin's party United Russia enjoyed an unfair
advantage were echoed by all 11 parties participating in the vote,
which is seen as a referendum on Putin's political...
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 British Prime Minister Gordon Brown Wednesday sought to head off an
embarrassing scandal over the loss of personal computer data of 25
million Britons by offering a public apology and ordering a data
security check in all government departments.
His government has been plunged into crisis by the revelation that
two computer discs,...
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 Schools and post offices were closed, planes were late, newsstands were
empty of newspapers and hundreds of thousands of people demonstrated in
cities throughout France Tuesday as civil servants carried out a
24-hour strike to demand higher wages and fewer job cuts.
In addition, train service throughout the country and...
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 German Chancellor Angela Merkel lost a key ally on Tuesday when veteran
Social Democrat (SPD) Franz Muentefering tendered his resignation as
vice-chancellor and labour minister.
Muentefering told a news conference he was stepping down for
"family reasons" to spend more time with his wife, Ankepetra, who has
long suffered...
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 The death of an innocent Brazilian man shot by marksmen of Scotland
Yard's ant-terrorism squad in the summer of 2005 resulted from "very
serious but avoidable mistakes," an independent report said Thursday.
Jean Charles de Menezes, who was shot seven times in the head by
anti-terrorist officers who mistook him for a...
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 According to Spanish officials, the separatist group in
Basque called ETA planted a booby-trapped car on Monday outside a government
building. The following day, the armed Basque separatist group warned it would
“keep striking.”
“Fortunately ETA failed with their bomb, which did not
explode because of a malfunction,” Jose Antonio...
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 The streets of Hamburg, Germany’s
principal port, were flooded Monday by thousands of demonstrators marching
against next month G8 summit, rally which turned violent when police forces
stepped in to break it up.
A large number of police forces were deployed to ensure a calm
consecution of the rally, but the people were irritated...
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 The anti-globalization demonstrators took the streets of Karlsruhe to protest against the harsh treatment applied by the police and the abusive arrests.On May 9 hundreds of globalization opponents demonstrated in Berlin, Hamburg and other major cities in Germany, demonstrations which eventually turned into riots. The violence was...
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 The Basque separatist group ETA kept its promise and began a terror campaign against the candidates for the local elections. Sunday, two women that were posting campaign notices in Bilbao were attacked by supporters of the separatist group.The two members of the People’s Party were hospitalized along with the men guarding them and two of...
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 With less then a month before the 33rd G8 summit takes place at the Baltic Sea resort of Heiligendamm, German police conducted raids across the country in order to prevent terrorist acts that would disrupt or even stop the meeting.The police received information that some leftist activists are planning to disrupt the summit which starts...
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In recent years, the Islamic charity Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) has done more welfare work than many other national and international non-profit organizations in Pakistan.
But its suspected affiliation with the militant group Lahkar-e-Taiba (LeT), which is believed to be behind November 26 Mumbai attacks, landed it Wednesday on the...
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Pakistan's prime minister Wednesday said the two top leaders of an Islamic militant group that India believes was behind the November 26 terrorist attacks in Mumbai were being questioned by police.
Yousaf Raza Gilani said Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and Zarar Shah, were detained in a raid this week at the offices of Lashkar-e-Taiba...
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Pakistan's prime minister Wednesday said the two top leaders of an Islamic militant group that India believes was behind the November 26 terrorist attacks in Mumbai were being questioned by police.
Meanwhile, Pakistani jet fighters, including F-16s, on Wednesday were flying over Islamabad with live ammunition as a media report said...
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Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou on Wednesday ruled out a planned visit next year by Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.
"The Dalai Lama has visited Taiwan twice, and we generally welcome all religious leaders to visit, but at the current moment, the timing isn't appropriate for that," he told foreign media in...
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New Delhi - Indian forces continued their battle with terrorists in luxury hotels in the financial hub Mumbai where scores remained trapped on Thursday, nearly 24 hours after the gunmen fanned out to high-profile locations and indulged in shooting sprees that left 119 dead and more than 315 injured.
Among the terrorists' targets were...
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German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Friday opened the first foreign consulate in India's information-technology hub of Bangalore.
More than 120 German firms operate in or near the southern city of 8 million people, including carmaker Daimler AG and software company SAP AG.
The opening of Germany's diplomatic...
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A Pakistani court on Tuesday extended the detention of a senior executive at a top currency exchange firm who is accused of being involved in the illegal transfer of millions of dollars abroad, officials and media reports said.
Munaf Kalia of Khanani and Kalia International was detained in Karachi, the country's commercial and...
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The global financial crisis caught up with Bangkok's property market last month when demand stagnated and large companies started to scale down their expansion plans, Jones Lang LaSalle, a professional real estate service company, said Tuesday.
"Impact of the global economic meltdown has become more evident since the global...
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A Syrian state television broadcast showing people tied to Lebanese organizations confessing to a September Damascus bomb attack is an attempt to smear Lebanese institutions, Lebanese politicians said Friday.
The Thursday-night broadcast showed ten men and a woman alleged to be members of the group Fatah al-Islam confessing to...
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In a new Vatican exhibition, Pope Pius XII's more mundane belongings - his heavily-worn shoes and portable typewriter - have gone on show, along with World War II-era radio transcripts in which he purportedly denounced totalitarian rule, including Nazism.
"The purpose is to allow the general public to get to know the full life...
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Businesses and schools shut down Monday in India's north-eastern state of Assam as part of a strike called to protest serial bombings there last week, which left 81 people dead and more than 300 injured, news reports said.
The 11-hour dawn-to-dusk strike was called by the influential All Assam Students' Union, which has accused the...
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Rescue workers on Thursday fanned out in south-western Pakistan, distributing relief supplies among thousands of earthquake survivors as the death toll climbed to at least 230, officials said.
Many isolated hamlets remained inaccessible as hungry, distraught women, children and elders waited for aid while preparing to spend a...
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Five people, including an al-Qaeda operative, were killed on Thursday in a suspected US airstrike in Pakistan's tribal area and a suicide attack in the neighboring North West Frontier Province (NWFP), officials said.
Three guided missiles hit a house in Sam area of South Waziristan tribal district, which is believed to have safe...
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India on Thursday imposed a countrywide ban on smoking in public spaces in its fight against tobacco use, which a medical study warned would claim 1 million lives in the country each year from 2010.
The ban, aimed at the country's 120 million smokers, has received a good response from people across the country, Health Minister...
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At least five suspected Muslim militants were killed in separate encounters in Indian-administered Kashmir where people participated in protests called by separatist leaders on Friday, officials said.
The Indian army said three militants belonging to the Harkat-ul-Jehadi Islami were killed in a gunbattle in the southern district of...
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Despite Thailand's ongoing political crisis, its stock market jumped 3.07 per cent Monday, boosted by the US government's takeover of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and growing optimism about the world economy.
The Stock Exchange of Thailand index ended at 665.66, up 19.86 points.
"Our market was just following the...
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Energy-strapped Pakistan on Wednesday decided to extend the daylight saving time till October end as prolonged power cuts triggered violent protests throughout the country.
Clocks were set forward by an hour on June 1 for three months to save electricity by benefiting from longer daylight. The move placed the local time six hours...
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Police arrested three Kashmiri separatist leaders in India-administered Kashmir as protestors defied a curfew in the region and clashed with security forces Monday, leaving 22 people injured, officials said.
Two senior leaders of the separatist Hurriyat Conference, hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani and moderate Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, were...
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Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said Monday the military's offensives against Muslim separatist rebels in the south, which have displaced more than 270,000 civilians, would help remove obstacles to peace talks with the guerrillas.
Arroyo stressed that her government has not declared an all-out war against the secessionist...
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One man was missing and 49 people were injured when tropical storm Nuri hit Hong Kong Friday.
Nuri, which had left seven dead in the Philippines, had weakened and been downgraded into a severe tropical storm by the time it reached Hong Kong in the late afternoon.
However, it still managed to bring Hong Kong to a standstill. The...
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Shouting "We want freedom," tens of thousands of protestors joined a rally called by Muslim separatist groups in Jammu and Kashmir state capital Srinagar on Friday.
At least 50,000 people from Srinagar and its outskirts gathered at the Idgah, a historic prayer ground in central Srinagar, which also has a cemetery where many...
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The Philippine military vowed Tuesday to take "aggressive actions" against Muslim separatist rebels who killed 49 people in a rampage that also displaced more than 66,000 residents in southern provinces.
Security was stepped up in the southern region of Mindanao and in Manila amid intelligence reports that the guerrillas...
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Pakistan's government plans to reinstate dozens of senior judges who were sacked by former president Pervez Musharraf, a cabinet minister said Tuesday.
The announcement was expected to be made after a meeting of ruling coalition leaders, including Asif Ali Zardari of the Pakistan Peoples' Party and Nawaz Sharif from Pakistan Muslim...
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India's Tata Group's retail arm Trent announced Tuesday it was entering into a franchise agreement with British retailer Tesco to expand its hypermarket business in India.
The franchise agreement with Tesco would allow Trent to access the former's extensive retail expertise and technical capability to expand its Indian hypermarket...
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China on Monday said a 15-year-old girl who was treated in hospital for injuries was a suspect in a series of terrorist attacks on the weekend in its central Asian region of Xinjiang.
Paramilitary police shot dead eight other suspected terrorists while two others "blew themselves up" after the attacks in Xinjiang's Kuqa...
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Police suspected a terrorist plot was behind a
raid Monday against a police station in north-western China's Xinjiang
region in which two attackers killed 16 police and injured 16 others,
the official Xinhua news agency said.
Two men drove a garbage truck into a team of border patrol police
who were jogging outside their division...
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and other
leaders were scheduled to visit the western city of Ahmedabad which had
been rocked by synchronized bombings that claimed 49 lives, officials
and news reports said Monday. A total of 16 small bombs
ripped through markets, residential areas, public transport and
hospitals in the key city of...
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 Typhoon Fung-Wong lashed Taiwan Monday, bringing strong winds and heavy rains which triggered landslides and floods. Schools, offices, banks and the local stock exchange had to be closed. Moreover, the railway traffic was stopped due to the powerful winds of up to 126 kilometers (90 miles).The typhoon made landfall on the east central...
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Mongolian media reported that at least four people have been
killed in the brutal disputes that took place in capital Ulan Bator, as a result of the alleged
electoral fraud.
According to BBC, approximately 130 police officials and
civilians were injured in the protests and hundreds of other activists have
been arrested.
Late...
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Over 800 people were missing Monday after a Philippine ferry turned over in one of the most powerful typhoons the archipelago has ever seen. The capsizing of the Princess of the Stars, on Saturday, was the worst catastrophe in a weekend of tragedy for the Philippines, as typhoon Fengshen razed the islands, bringing torrents and wind...
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Nepal was back to work on Sunday as government offices and schools reopened for the first time since the country turned into a republic, ending its 239-year-old monarchy regime. King Gyanendra was given fifteen days to leave the Narayanhity royal palace. He is very likely to move to his private home in Kathmandu. His almost six hundred...
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 A powerful earthquake devastated China, killing about 10,000 people,
toppling thousands of homes, factories, offices and schools. It was China’s worst
natural disaster in 32 years. It ravaged the mountainous region outside Chengdu, capital of Sichuan Province,
destroying 80 percent of structures in some of the towns and small cities...
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 China has
detained 30 people, including six Buddhist monks for their roles in the violent
protests in Lhasa
on 14 March, Chinese authorities announced. One month after the incident, the
International Campaign for Tibet
said more than 160 people were detained from monasteries in the Tibetan capital
of Lhasa during
April.
Three...
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 A suicide blast near NATO troops in eastern Afghanistan
killed 15 local people and injured 25 others, the alliance's military force
said, according to AFP. The explosion took place in Khogyani district in the province of Nangarhar.
“Fifteen local nationals have been killed and 25 wounded,” Major Martin
O'Donnell, a spokesman for...
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 Two suicide bomb attacks took place in Lahore, Pakistan killing at least 26 people. Lahore’s main police building was partly demolished and approximately 175 people were wounded as two cars packed with explosives were detonated a few minutes and kilometers apart during Tuesday’s morning rush-hour.The latest attacks made it clear that...
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 Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said Wednesday that Britain would
help investigate the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto,
whose slaying has forced the delay of crucial scheduled elections by
six weeks.
In a televised address to the nation, Musharraf said British Prime
Minister Gordon Brown agreed to...
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 Two soldiers and three civilians were killed and 28 others were injured
in an explosion in Sri Lanka's capital Wednesday morning, police said.
A bus carrying injured army personnel to a medical clinic appeared
to be the target in the explosion at Slave Island, an area less than 1
kilometre from Air Force headquarters.
The bus...
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 The Election Commission of Pakistan announced Wednesday that crucial
elections meant to usher in a return of civilian rule would be delayed
for six weeks following the assassination of opposition leader Benazir
Bhutto.
"The polling will now be held on February 18, 2008," Qazi Mohammed
Farooq, the chief election...
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 Leaders of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) were meeting Sunday to
chose a successor to assassinated leader Benazir Bhutto and decide
whether to boycott crucial upcoming parliamentary elections.
The nine-member central executive committee of the PPP were meeting
at the Bhutto family ancestral home in Naudero in the southern...
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