2013-08-02

Silvio Berlusconi has been meeting senior party colleagues for the first time since his tax fraud conviction was set in stone by Italy’s highest

On Sunday Hassan Rohani will be sworn in as Iran’s new president. On Friday he was quoted as saying Israel was a wound on the Muslim world that needs

The presidential elections in Mali have marked the end of one of the bloodiest periods in the country’s history. According to the United Nations

Alleged National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowdon has been called an ‘American idealist’. Snowdon has been given asylum in Russia, despite

Human rights campaigners have called on France not to extradite the Kazakh oligarch and dissident Mukhtar Ablyazov, who was detained in the south of

There were mixed signals on US jobs in July. Employers there slowed their pace of hiring but at the same time the jobless rate fell. The number

Mali’s former Prime Minister Boubacar Keita has topped the poll in the first round of the presidential election but fell short of the 50 percent

The number of people registered as without a job in Spain fell in July from the previous month, helped by seasonal factors including a strong tourist

The head of the African Union’s election observer team has said that Zimbabwe’s presidential and parliamentary votes this week were “free, honest and

Martin Marugan, the ticket inspector on the train which crashed in Spain, killing 79 people, says he does not feel any guilt. He was talking to the

Greek archaeologists staged a protest against 500 job losses, using the country’s past as symbols of the present which included a cardboard cut out

Iran’s new president, Hassan Rohani, elected on 14 June, takes up his functions officially the first weekend of August. The moderate cleric promised

Education is evolving fast, with new technologies and teaching techniques emerging to meet the needs of the modern world, and many teachers are

A strong character is a definite plus when it comes to being a member of parliament in order to fight the corner of the people represented there

Millions of Iranians have been marking al-Quds day – or Jerusalem day – in support of Palestinians. Every year on the last Friday of Ramadan

America has reacted angrily to the asylum offer given to alleged leaker Edward Snowden in Russia. Mr Snowden has been living in a transit lounge at

At least 40 people die in an explosion at a weapons cache in the central Syrian city of Homs.

Residents of Mae Sot and Sakon Nakhon assess the damage after floods devastate Thailand.

A question from Mary in Dublin, who asks euronews: “I am Irish and will be going on holiday across several European countries this summer. Should

The fate of Italy’s ruling coalition government is in the balance after the country’s highest court upheld Silvio Berlusconi’s four-year prison

There have been clashes between the Tunisian army and Islamic extremists near the border with Algeria. Gun fire was exchanged and around 10 to 15

Taiwanese lawmakers have exchanged punches and thrown water at each other during a parliament session in the capital Taipei. The brawl came ahead

Two rockets have landed east of Beirut, close to a military compound and Lebanon’s presidential palace – according to security sources. It is the

There is anger in Chile after an investigation into a mine collapse failed to find anyone responsible. Thirty-three workers were left trapped

Thousands of supporters of ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Mursi have marched to the military intelligence headquarters in Cairo. The action came

Syrian President Bashar al Assad says he confident of victory against rebels, as the revolt against his rule rages on. He was speaking during a

A ruling by Italy’s highest court, upholding a tax fraud jail term against Silvio Berlusconi, has left the country mired in uncertainty – once again

Silvio Berlusconi has come out fighting, after Italy’s highest court upheld his jail sentence for tax fraud. From his residence in Rome, he said

Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has made a defiant speech to lawmakers, affirming that he is not resigning and not calling elections. But he