The Netherlands said it will postpone until next year any decision on allowing Bulgaria and Romania into the Schengen zone (which would allow for passport-free travel between the Schengen states).
The top candidate to run the International Monetary Fund, French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde, said she backed a bigger say for China at the Fund while making clear that the euro zone crisis would be a priority if she wins the job.
World stocks held near the previous day's 11-week low on Thursday while the euro rose broadly as investors looked to the European Central Bank to signal a July interest rate hike at its meeting later.
Turkey, in an act of generosity has welcomed anxious Syrian refugees on Wednesday and urged Syrian government to stop violence against civilians after thousands of people abandoned a town near the Turkish frontier in fear of military assault.
Government officials from nearly 30 nuclear powered countries called for safety tests on Tuesday, after the disaster at Fukushima plant sparked concern over safety standards.
The election this weekend in Turkey is expected to bring an easy victory to the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) of Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan.
If crisis talks are any indication of an impending emergency, then the E.coli outbreak has just become one. With experts still in the dark about the origin of the outbreak, the agriculture ministers from European Union nations have decided to hold a crisis meeting.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will be honored on Tuesday at the White House with America's highest civilian award.
A restructuring of Greece's public debt, which many analysts say is inevitable, is inappropriate as long as the country follows through on promised reforms, European Central Bank chief Jean-Claude Trichet said Monday.
Alleged war criminal Ratko Mladic, who is facing charges of genocide at a court in The Hague after extradition from Serbia, has had his army pension unblocked, according to his attorney
Turkish political leaders have blasted an editorial in The Economist magazine which called for the country’s voters to support the opposition in this weekend’s election.
Tens of thousands of irate Greeks staged a huge rally in central Athens on Sunday to protest the government’s plan to deepen spending cuts and increase taxes even further to meet terms of its bailout from the European union and International Monetary Fund.
Four people in the United States are suspected of having been exposed to an E. Coli outbreak in Germany after returning from travels to Hamburg, U.S. health officials said.
Bean sprouts grown in Germany have been identified as the most likely source of the E. coli outbreak which has mostly been restricted to northern Germany, state authorities said.
A team of activists from the U.S.-based organization called Sea Shepherd Conservation Society departed for Libyan waters on two ships on Wednesday to prevent illegal catch of blue tuna fish in the region.
The spot market price of Gold Bullion jumped $10 per ounce to $1539 Friday lunchtime in London - recovering the last of this week's 1.1% drop - before slipping back as the US Dollar fell on surprisingly weak US jobs data.
The number of cases related to an outbreak of infections from a deadly strain of E. Coli that has killed 17 people in Germany has jumped by 199 Since May 31, the World Health Organization reported on Friday.
Experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) said that a highly infectious new strain of E.coli bacteria, which is causing a deadly outbreak of food poisoning in Germany and other countries, is a never-before-seen mutation.
A killer bacteria linked to Spanish cucumbers is claiming victims all around Europe, but the news couldn't come at a worse time for the struggling country.
The escherichia coli (E.coli) outbreak has infected more than 1,500 people and killed 17 others. Vegetable sellers are suffering due to E.coli outbreak.
The Greek government has agreed to reduce its budget deficit for this year by implementing a series of spending cuts amounting to 6.4-billion euros, according to an Athens official who spoke to Reuters.
The outbreak of E. coli in Western Europe has led Russia to impose a ban on fresh vegetable imports from the European Union (EU).
