Topic: Europe
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany stepped up security on its railways on Thursday, dispatching police reinforcements to halt a campaign of arson attacks after officials found a firebomb on tracks near Berlin.It was the 16th explosive device detected in four days.Noone has been ...
(Reuters) - Republican presidential candidates met on Thursday in Orlando, Florida, in the latest of a series of debates about who should be the nominee to face Democratic President Barack Obama in the November 2012 election.Here are some quotations.RICK PERRY, TEXAS GOVERNOROn ...
PARIS (Reuters) - Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former IMF chief who is back home in France with his career in tatters after a sex-assault scandal, is likely to take a role in the left's 2012 election campaign, a political ally said on Monday.Pierre ...
TROMOEY, Norway (Reuters) - Record numbers of Young Liberals held Norway's first summer youth camp since last week's slaughter of 69 campers and the Oslo bomb that killed eight, but police were posted to guard the gathering.It is the first political party ...
US President Barack Obama visited the residence of the Norwegian ambassador on Tuesday to personally offer his condolences after 76 people died in twin attacks.Obama and Vice President Joe Biden visited the ambassador's residence to sign a condolence registry after the killings ...
OSLO (Reuters) An assailant who shot dead at least 84 people at a youth camp of Norway's ruling party turned a "youth paradise into a hell," Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said on Saturday."Many of those who lost their lives were persons ...
OSLO (Reuters) - Norway's Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said on Saturday he did not want to speculate on the motives for a bomb blast and a shooting that killed at least 87 people, mostly teenagers."Compared to other countries I wouldn't say we ...
BOSTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney takes his fund-raising machine to London next month, holding a reception aimed at wealthy American expatriates working at banks and hedge funds.A handful of London fund-raisers were held during the 2008 presidential election cycle, ...
ROME (Reuters) - House of Representatives Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi was released from a short stay in a hospital on Monday and is resuming her scheduled activities in Italy, spokesman Nadeam Elshami said.Pelosi, who served as Speaker of the House from 2007 ...
ATHENS (Reuters) - A Greek leftist urban guerrilla group claimed responsibility on Wednesday for a powerful explosion which damaged a court house in Athens last month.The Conspiracy of Fire Cells, which also claimed a wave of parcel bombs sent from Greece to ...