2012-10-02

Ukraine’s parliament on Tuesday scrapped a defamation bill that could have seen journalists fined, banned from working or even jailed. The text had

Euronews correspondent in Georgia, Sergio Cantone met Bidzina Ivanishvili to talk first about his domestic political strategy and his role after

To discuss the impact being felt in Iran by the weakening of its currency, we spoke to a professor at the Burgundy Business School in France, home to

The European Parliament will suspend its mission overseeing the appeal of former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoschenko until after elections in

The focus in the French National Assembly was Europe with the first reading of the European Union fiscal pact which was agreed by EU leaders in

An unexpected move by Alstom to increase its capital in order to fund acquisitions has raised concerns about its financial strength. The French

Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has said that he has no plans to ask Brussels for a bailout soon. That followed a report Madrid could request

Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday that his country can overcome its currency crisis as the rial fell to new record lows against

The talking, listening and analysing has started in Georgia following the victory by Bidzina Ivanishvili and his six party coalition in the

A former regional head of Austria’s conservative People’s Party has been sentenced to five and half years in jail. Josef Martinz and three others

Turkey has exhumed the remains of former President Turgut Ozal on the order of prosecutors investigating events surrounding his death. Ozal died in

French prosecutors have dropped their probe into gang rape allegations against former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Khan. The decision was taken after

Again, it is being recommended that high-risk investments and trading be separated from retail banking. This time, the proposal comes from a new

Bidzina Ivanishvili doesn’t like politics; he said so recently, according to French paper l’Express. He said ‘two, three years maximum, that’s how

Former Chelsea Midfielder and Germany captain Michael Ballack has officially ended his footballing career after being released by Bayer Leverkusen in

Hundreds of furious Tunisians have taken to the streets of Tunis to protest against the treatment of a woman who was allegedly raped by police

The frantic build up to what could prove to be historic elections has gone and on the streets of Tibilisi people are focusing on the future

A senior Rome regional politician has been arrested in a widening inquiry into government corruption in the capital. Franco Fiorito, former head of

Gunmen shot dead at least 26 students in an attack on their college residence in northeast Nigeria, a college spokesman said on Tuesday. The attack

Pope Benedict’s former butler, Paolo Gabriele, who is on trial for stealing papal documents alleging corruption in the Vatican and leaking them to

Car sales in Germany continue to fall. In September they were down by two percent from the same month last year, taking into account the fact that

Australia’s central bank has cut its benchmark interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point. It is now at the lowest level in three years – at

Spain’s jobless rate rose yet again in September as the services sector laid off more workers at the end of the summer tourist season. The latest

Workers at the Irisbus bus factory chained themselves to railings in front of the presidential palace in Rome to protest against the closure of their

Will it be a peaceful transfer of power in Georgia or could the elections results mark an uncertain future? Georgians are preparing for a new

Liam Neeson returns as a violently over-protective family man in ‘Taken 2’. The original ‘Taken’ became a surprise hit taking over 100m euros at

African Union and Somali troops have entered the strategic port town of Kismayo, the former stronghold of the al-Shabaab rebel group in

Coral in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is disappearing at a faster rate than expected, according to a new study. Over the last thirty years