24.06.2009 - News
Czech presidency unharmed by change of government, says Klaus

Czech President Václav Klaus says he believes the Czech Republic has passed muster during its six-month presidency of the European Union. He told Czech Radio that the fall of the country’s government and its replacement by a caretaker cabinet had not harmed the Czech presidency in the eyes of other states...

24.06.2009 - EU parliament head prepared to lead delegation to Iran
DW-WORLD: Tehran focuses ire over protests on West As Iranian forces continue their violent crackdown on opposition protesters in the wake of recent presidential elections, authorities in Tehran have accused Western governments of fueling the unrest. (23...

24.06.2009 - Former Kosovo prime minister arrested in Bulgaria
This is the third time that former Kosovo Prime Minister Agim Ceku has been arrested under an international warrant, even though UN officials in Pristina have repeatedly requested that governments disregard the Serbian order. Ceku was detained on an old Interpol warrant issued by Serbia, which wants to put the him on trial for war crimes allegedly committed when he was the military chief of the ethnic Albanian 'Kosovo Liberation Army,' which fought against Serb forces in the late 1990s...

24.06.2009 - Germany's Muslim community larger than thought
DW-WORLD: German interior minister speaks in Cairo on Muslim integration In a speech at Cairo University in Egypt, German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble sought understanding for Germany's integration policies. The speech came just ahead of the next German Islam conference in Berlin...

24.06.2009 - Rights group urges Kosovo to close contaminated Roma camps
The non-governmental organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called for immediate action to close the poisoned camps in Mitrovica, northern Kosovo in a report released on Wednesday. "Roma have been stuck in these poisoned camps for a decade," said the report's author Wanda Troszczynska-van Genderen, Western Balkans researcher at HRW...

24.06.2009 - German punk rocker discovered as top model in Japan
24.06.2009 - Stone Age bone flute discovered in southern Germany
24.06.2009 - Germany opens dementia research center in Bonn
24.06.2009 - Mosley to retire, announces peace settlement in Formula 1 feud
24.06.2009 - Experts gather for Prague conference on cyber terrorism and crime
24.06.2009 - Czech Social Democrats launch Christian platform
24.06.2009 - President Klaus hints he may be last to put signature to Lisbon
24.06.2009 - Sorbian culture promoted in Prague’s Malá Strana
24.06.2009 - Germany to go deeper into debt as recession widens
24.06.2009 - German cabinet signs off on record budget as recession widens
24.06.2009 - Czech president holds off on Lisbon Treaty
24.06.2009 - Red Cross evolves from aiding soldiers to helping civilians
24.06.2009 - Russia enters the scramble for African resources
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