Topic: The Balkans

Greek guerrilla group claims Athens court blast

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 ...

Greek police arrest two suspected guerrillas

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek police said on Sunday they had arrested two suspected guerrilla group members but a cache of weapons found in their apartments in Athens this weekend did not match guns used in recent attacks.Police raided several houses across Greece ...

Clinton Sniper Fire

In March 2008, Democratic Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton claimed that on a 1996 trip to Bosnia as First Lady, she and her entourage had to cut short a greeting ceremony at Tuzla air field and ran from the tarmac with their " ...

W.House voices strong US support for Greek measures

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House expressed its strong support on Thursday for efforts to "restore stability" to Greece and said President Barack Obama had been briefed about the issue and the situation in financial markets."Greece is enacting major economic reforms with ...

Greek PM meets Obama amid finance crisis

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou held talks Tuesday with President Barack Obama seeking US action against speculators he says are deepening his country's financial crisis.As Papandreou went into closed-door Oval Office talks, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs sidestepped questions over whether the ...
Fed examines insurance contracts between Wall Street and Greece THE NEWS:Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the central bank is examining arrangements Wall Street firms have with Greece involving high-risk financial instruments.CONCERNS ON CAPITOL HILL:Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., is ...

Bulgaria may house Guantanamo detainee: PM

SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria should accept one detainee from the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba after a request from Washington to house prisoners, Prime Minister Boiko Borisov said on Saturday.His deputy Tsvetan Tsvetanov, who is also interior minister, said ...

Dimitur Blagoev

Aspects of the topic Dimit r Blagoev are discussed in the following places at Britannica. In the 1890s two new leftist parties were created-the Social Democratic Party and the Agrarian Union. While the first, led by schoolteacher Dimituv Blagoev, echoed to a ...
Vice President Joe Biden pledged the United States' support for Balkan nations' bid to integrate with the European Union in a speech Tuesday before Bosnia's central parliament. "The door is open for the countries of this region for the first time in ...
Vice President Biden plans to visit 3 nations in southeastern EuropeVice President Joe Biden plans to visit southeastern Europe during the week of May 18.Biden's office announced Friday that he will visit Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Kosovo. Specific dates and other ...
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