2012-09-10

A 25 nation group that has been monitoring Kosovo’s first few years of independence has officially ended its role. The International Civilian

West Bank Palestinians showed their anger at price rises and a worsening economy on Monday when crowds threw shoes at a poster of Prime Minister

An unknown militant group has claimed responsibility for a car bomb which killed 14 people in northwest Pakistan. Dozens more were injured in the

After 14 months in jail Ethiopia has pardoned two Swedish journalists it had found guilty of “supporting terrorism” and sentenced to 11

In power for almost seven years, the political stature of Angela Merkel is without equal among the leaders of the European Union. The condition of

Despite the hand over of Bagram to Afghan authorities the US has said it will keep control of at least one block at the controversial jail

Princess Maxima of the Netherlands has taken part in the Amsterdam City swim to raise money for people with Motor Neurone Disease. She completed

After just three months in the job, Japanese Finance Minister Tadahiro Matsushita has been found dead in his apartment in what appears to be a

A series of explosions rocked seven supermarkets on the French island of Corsica on Sunday night. Damage was limited. There has been no claim

With his popularity flagging, French President François Hollande has set out to recast his image as ‘man in control’. He told the nation on

Glencore, the world’s biggest commodities trader, will not raise its offer for Xstrata any further. On Monday it outlined an improved bid for the

Dutch voters go to the polls on Wednesday knowing that they can expect similar levels of austerity to their other European neighbours once a

Syrian state television is reporting the deaths of at least 17 people in two bomb attacks in the country’s biggest city, Aleppo. The victims are said

Tommy Hilfiger embraced the sailing life in his 2013 women’s collection at New York Fashion Week, continuing his theme of stripes and infusing a

New Yorker Benh Zeitlin clocked up two more awards for his Beasts of the Southern Wild. The film about a girl caught up in a natural disaster caused

A British bomb squad has left the Surrey home of the victims of the French Alps shootings after finding nothing dangerous. Earlier, it was

In Germany, a close ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel has called into question the independence of the European Central Bank over its newest plan to

Less than ten percent of striking South African platinum miners have turned up for work at the Marikana colliery, despite calls by unions to end

The Afghan flag was hoisted during a ceremony handing over control of US-built Bagram prison. Afghan authorities have taken over control of the

The Afghan Taliban said on Monday they were doing everything in their power to try to kidnap or kill Britain’s Prince Harry, who arrived in

Are you 14 or more and would you like to spend some time in a school abroad? The Comenius Individual Pupil Mobility project, a European exchange

Sixteen-year old Elea is off to school. But this isn’t any old school day for this young French pupil. She has decided to move to Finland for a

Employees of an Italian aluminium plant threatened with closure have protested in Rome. US owners Alcoa will shut the factory in Sardinia at the

Iraq’s fugitive Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi has refused to return to Baghdad where he faces the death sentence after being accused of commanding

The world’s financial woes are impacting on the mighty Chinese economy according to the latest trade figures. Domestic companies are cutting

There has been more gloomy news on the already shaky Italian economy. Latest figures show it contracted by 0.8 per cent in the second quarter of this

The oil giant BP has sold some of its oil and gas fields in the Gulf of Mexico to an independent company based in Houston for 4.3-billion

What have been described as “potentially explosive substances” have been found in the Surrey home of the victims of the French Alps shootings.

Is there any room for hope in Somalia, long-since written-off as a ‘failed state’? Hawa Aden Mohamed has never stopped believing. euronews met her