Iran rapidly expanding nuclear work
VIENNA – Iran has rapidly ramped up production of higher-grade enriched uranium over the last four months, the U.N. nuclear agency said Friday, in a confidential report that feeds concerns about how quickly the...
Category: Europe
Europe’s banks bleed from Greek debt crisis
(Reuters) – The scars of Greece’s debt crisis were laid bare in heavy losses from a string of European banks on Thursday, and bosses warned the region’s precarious finances would continue to threaten economic...
Doctors filmed agreeing illegal abortions ‘no questions asked’
Women are being granted illegal abortions by doctors based on the sex of their unborn baby, an undercover investigation by The Daily Telegraph reveals. Doctors at British clinics have been secretly filmed agreeing to...
‘Germany Has Been the Winner in the Globalization Process’
In an interview with SPIEGEL, Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff, 58, says it was a mistake to bring all the southern European countries into the common currency. He also argues that Greece should be granted...
Drought summit as rivers in England dry up
The Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman is hosting a drought summit later as parts of England struggle with groundwater levels lower than in 1976. She has invited water companies, farmers and wildlife groups to discuss...
Iran stops oil sales to British, French companies
(Reuters) – Iran has stopped selling crude to British and French companies, the oil ministry said on Sunday, in a retaliatory measure against fresh EU sanctions on the Islamic state’s lifeblood, oil. “Exporting crude...
Bombardment of Syrian city ‘intensifies’ after UN vote
Syrian troops have resumed heavy shelling of the city of Homs, activists say, a day after the UN General Assembly called for an end to violence. One opposition group said the bombardment was the...
Italian police seize $6 trillion of fake T-bonds
POTENZA, Italy — Italian police said on Friday they had seized about $6 trillion of fake U.S. Treasury bonds in Switzerland, and issued arrest warrants for eight people accused of international fraud and other...
German President Christian Wulff quits amid scandal
BERLIN — Angela Merkel’s hand-picked choice for the ceremonial post of president resigned on Friday in a scandal over political favors, dealing a blow to the German chancellor in the midst of the euro...
Germany’s smear campaign against Greece
“Who is Mr Schäuble to insult Greece? Who are the Dutch? Who are the Finns?” retorted President Karolous Papoulias, himself a teenage resister against the Wehrmacht in Epirus almost seventy years ago – though...
