Days after Greece’s top administrative court ordered authorities to reinstate state broadcaster ERT, the country’s fragile government coalition is struggling to agree on terms for turning television and radio signals back on.
US President Barack Obama is expected to outline plans to reduce American and Russian nuclear stocks in a highly anticipated speech at Berlin’s historic Brandenburg Gate on Wednesday.
Russia's lower house of parliament on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly in favour of a bill banning the adoption of Russian orphans by gay couples, unmarried couples and single people in countries where same-sex marriage is legal.
Turkey's Interior Minister Muammer Güler (pictured) confirmed Monday that police and government are looking into the use of social media as a tool to organise the Gezi Park demonstrations that have swept the country for nearly three weeks.
A Greek court overturned a governmental decree on Monday which saw the closure of the country’s state broadcaster last week. The ERT can now resume programming until a final decision is made, a judicial source said.
Five trade unions are set to begin a nationwide 24-hour strike on Monday to protest against the harsh treatment of protesters in Taksim Square. The unions will stop work except in cases of emergency and will march to the city centres.
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has criticised French moves to protect EU cultural industries as "reactionary" ahead of upcoming talks on a massive EU free trade agreement with the United States.
The Turkish protesters are not pursuing their own interests, but are "a generation with free souls" concerned about civic freedoms, says an NGO representative of the Taksim Solidarity initiative.
Documents leaked by former CIA employee Edward Snowden reveal that Britain spied on G20 delegates from other member nations – including Turkey and South Africa – at a London summit in 2009, Britain's "Guardian" newspaper reported on Monday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet US President Barack Obama ahead of the G8 summit on Monday for what could be contentious talks on Syria, with their policies on President Bashar al-Assad appearing to be on a collision course.
