http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/ Europe - News: Find breaking news, world news and pictures on Europe en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.29/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/ http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2161580-obama-silent-us-arms-to-syria-praises-g-8-plan.html BERLIN (AP) — President Barack Obama is refusing to describe the type of military support the U.S. will give to Syrian rebels even as he praises a decision by world leaders at a just-completed summit to seek a negotiated peace. Obama says even though leaders could not agree on whether Syrian President Bashar Assad must go, he has decided it is not possibl... Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:33:59 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2161580-obama-silent-us-arms-to-syria-praises-g-8-plan.html 2013-06-19T11:33:59Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2161356-turkish-official-approves-standing-man-protest.html ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey's deputy prime minister gave a nod of approval to a new form of peaceful resistance that is spreading through Turkey on Wednesday as police were questioning dozens of people rounded up in police raids. Although police dispersed pockets of protesters who set up barricades in two Turkish cities overnight, sometimes violent anti-... Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:21:39 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2161356-turkish-official-approves-standing-man-protest.html 2013-06-19T11:21:39Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2161320-air-france-klm-orders-25-wide-body-airbus-a350s.html LE BOURGET, France (AP) — Air France-KLM ordered 25 Airbus A350 jets on Wednesday, saying the wide-body plane that flew for the first time last week will be central to its plan to expand long-haul flights after years of struggling against discount carriers in Europe. The deal is worth around $7.2 billion at list prices but customers can negotiate steep di... Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:09:04 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2161320-air-france-klm-orders-25-wide-body-airbus-a350s.html 2013-06-19T11:09:04Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2161516-greek-government-talks-to-tv-crisis.html ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece's governing coalition parties are to meet for a second time in three days to try and end a political crisis triggered by the closure of state broadcaster ERT. Conservative Prime Minister Antonis Samaras will hold talks later Wednesday with coalition partners — the Socialist Pasok and Democratic Left parties — who have opposed ... Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:05:06 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2161516-greek-government-talks-to-tv-crisis.html 2013-06-19T11:05:06Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2161512-alcatel-lucent-plans-overhaul-big-cost-cuts.html PARIS (AP) — Troubled telecommunications equipment manufacturer Alcatel-Lucent is launching a major effort to boost its fortunes by shedding assets and implementing deep cost cuts. The Paris-based company announced a plan Wednesday to sell off more than 1 billion euros in assets through 2015, and says it hopes for 1 billion euros in cost savings. It is al... Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:23:53 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2161512-alcatel-lucent-plans-overhaul-big-cost-cuts.html 2013-06-19T10:23:53Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2161058-obama-to-renew-calls-nuclear-reductions.html BERLIN (AP) — President Barack Obama will renew his call Wednesday to reduce the world's nuclear stockpiles, including a proposed one-third reduction in U.S. and Russian arsenals, the White House said. Obama will make his case during a speech at Berlin's iconic Brandenburg Gate. His address comes nearly 50 years after John F. Kennedy's famous Cold War spe... Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:12:32 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2161058-obama-to-renew-calls-nuclear-reductions.html 2013-06-19T10:12:32Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2161394-russia-uncovers-235-billion-illegal-transfers.html MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's central bank has uncovered a network of shell companies that illegally funneled staggering sums of money abroad. Outgoing central bank chief Sergei Ignatiev told lawmakers Wednesday that 173 "one-day firms" smuggled at least 760 billion rubles ($23.5 billion). So-called one-day firms are shell companies that have been a favored mone... Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:13:29 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2161394-russia-uncovers-235-billion-illegal-transfers.html 2013-06-19T09:13:29Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2161398-sweden-sells-shares-bank-nordea-3-bln.html STOCKHOLM (AP) — The Swedish government says it has raised 19.5 billion Swedish kronor ($3 billion) by almost halving its stake in Nordic banking group Nordea AB. The government Wednesday said the sale, which cut its holding from 13.4 percent to 7 percent, will be used to reduce the Swedish state debt. The shares were sold at 75 Swedish kronor ($11.6) eac... Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:12:01 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2161398-sweden-sells-shares-bank-nordea-3-bln.html 2013-06-19T09:12:01Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2161364-floods-close-lourdes-pilgrimage-site-pyrenees.html PARIS (AP) — Heavy floods in southwest France have forced the closure of the Catholic pilgrimage site in Lourdes and the evacuation of pilgrims from nearby hotels. Floodwaters swirled Wednesday in the grotto where nearly 6 million believers from around the world, many gravely ill, come every year seeking miracles and healing. It has been a major pilgrimag... Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:02:35 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2161364-floods-close-lourdes-pilgrimage-site-pyrenees.html 2013-06-19T09:02:35Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2161110-obamas-berlin-speech-history-raises-stakes.html BERLIN (AP) — Five years and 50 years. As President Barack Obama revisits Berlin, he can't escape those anniversaries and the inevitable comparisons to history and personal achievement. With his own 2008 speech at Berlin's Victory Column and former President John F. Kennedy's 1963 historic denunciation of the Soviet bloc as markers, Obama will use an addr... Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:47:59 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2161110-obamas-berlin-speech-history-raises-stakes.html 2013-06-19T08:47:59Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2161076-turkeys-standing-man-to-join-ranks-icons.html The image was stark — a silent, solitary figure standing in passive defiance to the Turkish prime minister's demand for protesters to clear Taksim Square in central Istanbul. The challenge by performance artist Erdem Gunduz is catching on with other protesters in Turkey, encouraged by social media into imitating his gesture across the country. It's too ea... Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:50:17 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2161076-turkeys-standing-man-to-join-ranks-icons.html 2013-06-19T07:50:17Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2160080-ammunition-fire-rages-russian-military-base.html MOSCOW (AP) — Exploding shells set off a fire that was triggering explosions Wednesday at a military depot in southern Russia, injuring about 30 people and causing the evacuation of more than 6,000 from a nearby village, investigators and emergency workers said. No cause has yet been determined for the fire at the Chapaevsk military depot in the Samara re... Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:26:20 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2160080-ammunition-fire-rages-russian-military-base.html 2013-06-18T21:26:20Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2159352-italy-top-court-faults-amanda-knox-acquittal.html ROME (AP) — Italy's high court on Tuesday harshly faulted the appeals court that acquitted American student Amanda Knox of murdering her roommate, saying its ruling was full of "deficiencies, contradictions and illogical" conclusions. It ordered a new appeals court to consider all the evidence to determine whether Knox helped kill the young woman. In Marc... Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:25:01 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2159352-italy-top-court-faults-amanda-knox-acquittal.html 2013-06-18T20:25:01Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2159458-scientists-timber-lake-michigan-centuries.html FAIRPORT, Michigan (AP) — A wooden beam embedded at the bottom of northern Lake Michigan appears to have been there for centuries, underwater archaeologists announced Tuesday, a crucial finding as crews dig toward what they hope is the carcass of a French ship that disappeared in the 17th Century. Expedition leaders still weren't ready to declare they had... Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:02:52 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2159458-scientists-timber-lake-michigan-centuries.html 2013-06-18T20:02:52Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2159046-greeces-public-tv-despite-court-ruling.html ATHENS, Greece (AP) — State TV channels in Greece remained off-air Tuesday as the political storm over the future of public broadcaster ERT raged on, despite a court ruling that the prime minister's decision to pull the plug was wrong. The threat of a snap general election was averted late Monday after a meeting between Conservative Prime Minister Antonis... Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:01:54 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2159046-greeces-public-tv-despite-court-ruling.html 2013-06-18T20:01:54Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2158812-turkeys-defiant-pm-police-to-power.html ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey's prime minister on Tuesday brushed aside international criticism over his government's crackdown on widespread demonstrations and vowed to increase the police's powers to deal with the unrest. Meanwhile, more than 90 people were detained in police raids linked to the protests. Recep Tayyip Erdogan's defiant stance appeared ai... Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:48:58 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2158812-turkeys-defiant-pm-police-to-power.html 2013-06-18T19:48:58Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2159090-poland-germany-probe-nazi-led-unit-commander.html WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Prosecutors in Poland and Germany said Tuesday they are reviewing files on a Minnesota man who was a commander of a Nazi-led unit to see if they have enough evidence to press charges and request his extradition from the United States. An Associated Press investigation revealed that Michael Karkoc, 94, entered the U.S. in 1949 by lyin... Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:48:40 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2159090-poland-germany-probe-nazi-led-unit-commander.html 2013-06-18T19:48:40Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2160038-mali-tuareg-rebels-sign-accord.html OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Mali, which lost half its territory last year to a rebel invasion, signed an accord Tuesday with Tuareg separatists who still control the country's northernmost province, paving the way for the Malian military to return to the areas that remain under rebel control. The agreement, which was signed in front of reporters by t... Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:39:33 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2160038-mali-tuareg-rebels-sign-accord.html 2013-06-18T19:39:33Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2159934-obama-opens-24-hour-trip-to-germany.html BERLIN (AP) — President Barack Obama is opening a 24-hour visit to Germany, the culmination of which will be a speech Wednesday at Berlin's iconic Brandenburg Gate. Obama will also hold meetings with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other government officials. He arrived in Berlin following a two-day summit of the Group of 8 industrial nations in North... Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:23:57 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2159934-obama-opens-24-hour-trip-to-germany.html 2013-06-18T18:23:57Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2159930-turkeys-erdogan-meets-top-hamas-officials.html ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is taking a break from his troubles at home to meet top Hamas officials for talks on Palestinian reconciliation. An Erdogan aide says he is holding talks with Hamas chief Khalid Mashaal as well as the Gaza Strip's prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh. The aide requested anonymity because he was n... Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:10:22 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2159930-turkeys-erdogan-meets-top-hamas-officials.html 2013-06-18T18:10:22Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2158888-german-prosecutors-probe-neo-nazi-bombing.html BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors said Tuesday they are investigating whether three alleged neo-Nazis suspected of a series of racist killings and bombings were also responsible for an earlier explosives attack not previously linked to the group. If true, the revelation would be embarrassing for German authorities already reeling from a series of blunders ... Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:40:31 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2158888-german-prosecutors-probe-neo-nazi-bombing.html 2013-06-18T16:40:31Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2159354-russia-to-ban-married-foreign-gays-adopting.html MOSCOW (AP) — Russia is on its way to sharply limiting the adoption of children by people from countries that allow same-sex marriage. Under a measure that passed its crucial second reading in the lower house of parliament Tuesday, Russia will prohibit adoption by foreign couples whose homeland recognizes their union as marriage, as well as by single peop... Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:18:12 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2159354-russia-to-ban-married-foreign-gays-adopting.html 2013-06-18T16:18:12Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2159526-obama-focuses-agreement-hollande-meeting.html ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland (AP) — President Barack Obama says he and French President Francois Hollande agree they have strong evidence of chemical weapon use by the Syrian government. But he's not publicly mentioning their current differing positions over whether to arm rebels. Obama said the two leaders agree on the need to build a strong opposition ... Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:38:32 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2159526-obama-focuses-agreement-hollande-meeting.html 2013-06-18T15:38:32Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2158864-hungary-indicts-nazi-era-suspect-war-crimes.html BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungarian prosecutors indicted a 98-year-old former police officer Tuesday for abusing Jews and assisting in their deportation to Nazi death camps during World War II. They said Laszlo Csatary was the chief of an internment camp for 12,000 Jews at a brick factory in Kosice — a Slovak city then part of Hungary — in May 1944, and th... Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:14:06 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2158864-hungary-indicts-nazi-era-suspect-war-crimes.html 2013-06-18T15:14:06Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2159422-official-olympic-failure-led-to-judokas-suicide.html MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian judo official says a four-time European judo champion who committed suicide had been depressed since failing to win a medal at last year's London Olympics. Authorities said Elena Ivashchenko died on Saturday at age 28 after jumping off the balcony of a 15th-floor apartment in the Siberian city of Tyumen. The director of a Tyumen ju... Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:07:56 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2159422-official-olympic-failure-led-to-judokas-suicide.html 2013-06-18T15:07:56Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2159208-lawyer-gadhafi-son-wants-handed-to-icc.html THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A lawyer for a son of ousted dictator Moammar Gadhafi accused Libyan authorities on Tuesday of showing a "blatant disregard" for the International Criminal Court by announcing they will put Seif al-Islam Gadhafi on trial in August. In an urgent filing to the Hague-based court, British lawyer John Jones asked appeals judges to... Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:28:17 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2159208-lawyer-gadhafi-son-wants-handed-to-icc.html 2013-06-18T14:28:17Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2159012-turkeys-standing-man-launches-protest-wave.html ISTANBUL (AP) — After weeks of sometimes violent confrontation with police, protesters in Turkey have found what could be a more potent form of resistance: standing still. The trend was launched by performance artist Erdem Gunduz, who stood silently for hours in Istanbul's central Taksim Square on Monday night, in passive defiance of Prime Minister Recep ... Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:04:29 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2159012-turkeys-standing-man-launches-protest-wave.html 2013-06-18T14:04:29Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2159004-boeing-nets-orders-102-stretch-787s.html LE BOURGET, France (AP) — Boeing Co. won major orders from five customers for a stretched-out version of its popular 787 Dreamliner jet at the Paris Air Show Tuesday, further evidence of a strengthening market for more expensive long-haul jets. Boeing announced the formal launch of its 787-10 program at the Paris Air Show on Tuesday and says it already ha... Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:57:33 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2159004-boeing-nets-orders-102-stretch-787s.html 2013-06-18T13:57:33Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2159268-eu-parliament-scraps-turkey-visit-this-week.html BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has scrapped a parliamentary visit to Turkey following the Ankara government's stinging criticism of an EU resolution about the handling of Turkish protests. European parliamentarian Elmar Brok said that Wednesday's visit of the legislative delegation was postponed following last week's rebuke and told Turkey that it "sh... Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:45:35 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2159268-eu-parliament-scraps-turkey-visit-this-week.html 2013-06-18T13:45:35Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2159232-eu-nations-grant-asylum-syrians-top-list.html BERLIN (AP) — European nations granted more people asylum in 2012, including seven times as many Syrians as the previous year. The European Union's statistical office said Tuesday the number of accepted asylum-seekers rose by 22 percent to 102,700 in 2012 from 84,300 a year earlier. It says the number of accepted Syrians rose to 18,700 last year from 2,56... Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:22:48 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2159232-eu-nations-grant-asylum-syrians-top-list.html 2013-06-18T13:22:48Z