Greece Athens protest warns Greek government against debt deal with more austerity With Greece under constant international pressure to make more cuts and reforms to secure bailout money – at home there was a strong warning not to 11/06/2015
Ukraine Moscow accused of 'outright lies' over Ukraine The US ambassador to the United Nations has accused Moscow of “outright lies” over the financing and arming of pro-Russian separatists in eastern 11/06/2015
USA Scottish First Minister not received in White House while in Washington At the conclusion of her four-day visit to the United States, First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon spoke at the Council on Foreign Relations in 11/06/2015
Romania Romanian minister resigns over 'punks and prostitutes' comment Romania’s transport minister has resigned over controversial comments he made criticising his countrymen living abroad. Ioan Rus caused uproar by 11/06/2015
Sport Fencing: Italy and Germany win team gold on final day of European championships It was a team effort on the last day of the European fencing championships in Montreux, Switzerland. Spearheaded by Olympic and individual European 11/06/2015
sport-united Sports United: All female crew Team SCA win Volvo Ocean Race leg Being punched, kicked, choked, strangled, and suffering excruciating joint-locking doesn’t sound a whole lot of fun. But those were the occupational 11/06/2015
Spain Spain: PP Party loses capital to leftist Ahora Madrid coalition Manuela Carmena, of the leftist Ahora Madrid coalition, will be inaugurated as mayor of the Spanish capital on Saturday (June 13). Her party says she 11/06/2015
musica Cecilia Bartoli as Gluck's tragic heroine “I pray to the almighty gods” is this year’s theme of the Whitsun festival in Salzburg, chosen by artistic director Cecilia Bartoli. The famous mezzo 11/06/2015
world news FIFA media director De Gregorio quits; Blatter rejects European Parliament call to go now The communications director of football's world governing body Walter De Gregorio is stepping down. Meanwhile FIFA's outgoing president Sepp Blatter has ruled out his immediate departure. 11/06/2015
Portugal's TAP sold to American-Brazilian led consortium Portugal is to sell its national flag carrier TAP to a consortium led by a American-Brazilian businessman. The debt-burdened airline has struggled 11/06/2015
South Korea South Korea reports 10th death from MERS South Korea reported on Thursday (June 11) a 10th death from Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, also known as MERS. Some 3,800 people were kept 11/06/2015
world news Swiss and Austrian police pursue Iran-P5+1 cyber-intruders Swiss authorities have searched a house in Geneva and seized computer material in connection with a possible cyber attack on nuclear negotiations 11/06/2015
Belgium IMF blasts Greece over lack of progress in debt talks “Major differences” remain between Greece and its international creditors, the International Monetary Fund said on Thursday, as officials tried to 11/06/2015
brussels bureau EU meeting overshadowed by Greek debt talks EU leaders met their counterparts from Latin American and the Caribbean on Thursday in a summit largely overshadowed by the ongoing Greek debt talks 11/06/2015
Russia Space trio lands safely after 199 days in orbit It was a happy landing for the three astronauts returning to earth this Thursday (June 11), after more than six months spent in space. 11/06/2015
Greece hangs on as unemployment worsens again Disheartening news for the Greeks on Thursday who are patiently awaiting some gains after six years of austerity. The unemployment figures ticked up 11/06/2015
Turkey Turkey: Erdogan calls on politicians to 'put their egos aside' With Turkey's political future hanging in the balance, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan urges politicians not to allow egos to get in the way of forming a government. 11/06/2015
France Anger at latest Paris auction of Native American artefacts The latest batch of Native American artefacts were sold at auction in Paris on Wednesday in spite of condemnation from the US and others. Several 11/06/2015
musica From The International New York Times' Center stage: Teatro alla Scala Looking to the future: How do opera houses, festivals and orchestras maintain tradition while moving their art forms forward, build and educate new 11/06/2015
China China's crackdown on corruption: ex-security chief handed life sentence Formerly one of the most powerful men in China, ex-Domestic Security chief Zhou Yongkang becomes the latest domino to fall in the president's crackdown on corruption. 11/06/2015
South Korea Seoul takes economic action to cushion MERS impact The respiratory infection known as MERS has parts of South Korea verging on paralysis. One village, Jangduk, 280 kilometres south of the capital 11/06/2015
no comment World's largest resort for dogs opens in Dubai A country known for its six-star hotels is now catering to its four-legged friends. My Second Home, the world’s largest lodge and play area for 11/06/2015
France Covering the Turkish Elections at Euronews Election nights have always been exciting in the Euronews’ newsroom. The calm atmosphere and the slowed rhythm of a weekend newsroom gives way to 11/06/2015
France Street art, with romantic twist, replaces Paris "love locks" On the Pont des Arts in Paris, the controversial “love padlocks” – signed and locked by lovers onto the bridge’s metal grids – have been replaced by 11/06/2015
world news Hundreds join search for missing Swedish teenager More than 900 volunteers in Sweden are helping police in their search for a teenage girl who has been missing for four days. 17-year-old Lisa Holm 11/06/2015
Japan Torrential rains in south Japan trigger evacuations Japanese authorities urged more than 300,000 residents to evacuate their homes on Thursday as torrential rains battered the south of the country 11/06/2015
First Atlantic locks flooded in new Panama Canal The new Panama Canal is near 90% complete, and on Thursday a test stretch on the Atlantic coastline was flooded for the first time. Testing of the 11/06/2015
Kazakhstan concludes WTO membership talks and joins in June The World Trade Organisation is to get a new member by the end of the year, its 162nd. Kazakhstan has completed all the membership negotiations 11/06/2015
le mag James Last: a life in music The German big band leader, James Last known across the world as ‘Mr Happy Sound’ is dead. He was born Hans Last in Bremen in 1929. He started his 11/06/2015
Greece Tears as Greek state TV returns to air after austerity shutdown Employees at Greece’s state television ERT hugged each other and cried on Thursday as the channel aired its first broadcast in two years, after it 11/06/2015