Prosecutors show reporters a video of an alleged Polish terrorist testing explosive bomb devices in Poland, November 20, 2012. Polish security forces have foiled a bomb plot to blow up the parliament and assassinate the Polish president, prime minister, and the members of parliament. Polish state prosecutor, Mariusz Krason, on Tuesday said the main suspect, identified as a 45-year-old chemistry professor... 

Ex-Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s accountant Giuseppe Spinelli Italian police have revealed the kidnapping case of ex-Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s accountant and his wife, following the arrest of six alleged abductors. The police at a Milan news conference on Monday said Giuseppe Spinelli and his wife were held for ransom on October 16 in an attempt to extort 35 million... 

Credit rating heavyweight Moody’s Investors Service has stripped France of its top AAA rating to Aa1 with a negative outlook, sending a warning to President Hollande’s endeavours to rebuild French economic growth and credibility. ­Moody’s said its decision to downgrade Europe’s second largest economy reflects France’s deteriorating economic outlook, the recession in the wider Eurozone... 

The creation of the supranational currency within the scope of the Customs Union is inevitable, Prime Minister of Armenia, Tigran Sargsyan, believes. According to him, this should be the next stage of integration within the organization, which makes sense from the point of view of simplification of currency circulation in transfers. The new currency may see the light on January 1, 2015. As the prime... 

Cleaning a monument to Vladimir Lenin, Krasnoyarsk. Russian lawmakers believe it is time to remove monuments to the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution, Vladimir Lenin, from town and city squares across the country. Memorials to such “a controversial figure” should be re-located in museums or alleys with statues of other historic persons, suggested the author of the initiative, Liberal-Democratic... 

A protest marking the anniversary of the deadly suppression of a 1973 student uprising in Greece turned into a massive anti-Israeli demonstration in the capital Athens, Press TV reports. On Saturday, communist protesters gathered at the Athens Polytechnic before marching on to the Israeli embassy in protest against its ongoing killing of Palestinians in Gaza. On November 17, 1973, students held a... 

In Siberia, rescuers continue to search for three tourists, who did not come out of a cave in due time. The rescuers of the Russian Emergencies Ministry have started searching for the tourists in Pandora’s Box Cave, Vesti reports. According to NTV, the owner of a tourist facility in the village of Malaya Syya told EMERCOM that three young men were supposed to return to the base in the morning,... 

The head of Irish low cost airline Ryanair, Michael O’Leary, known for his extravagant and even shocking statements, has started to actively promote the idea of “standing seats” at company aircraft. O’Leary does not worry about the fact that European safety regulations require passengers be in their seats with their seatbelts fastened during take-off and landing. The businessman... 

In scientific circles, the exact causes of climate change are heavily debated, but if you listened to the mainstream media you would be led to believe that they were all in agreement, and all believed that climate change was entirely man made and carbon based. Most of these mainstream sources also believe that a global carbon tax is a good solution, no surprise there. Recently information has come... 

We are used since a century to denounce and comment the so-called decline of the West; the great essay of Spengler, unfit for the public of today, was published during the WW1 and it has been quickly fulfilled, Western Europe becoming an American colony and a bureaucratic disaster, both economically and spiritually. Her ageing population is rapidly disappearing and it will be replaced during the next... 

Massive anti-austerity strikes and protests swept across Europe as millions took to the streets to express their frustration over rising unemployment and dire economic prospects. Many rallies ended with violent clashes with police. Workers marched in 23 countries across Europe to mark the European Day of Action and Solidarity. General strikes had been called in Spain and Portugal, paralyzing public... 

2300 GMT: Protesters in Barcelona burn two police cars forcing officers to respond with rubber bullets. Several people injured. ­2200 GMT: A group of protesters have set a barricade on fire on Madrid’s Santa Maria de la Cabeza street, El Pais reports. 1945 GMT: At least 118 people have been detained across Spain, according to El Pais. At least 40 have been injured, 18 of them police officers. 1930... 

Democratic principles adopted in the West, including those that attempt to control elections, are not right for Belarus, the nation’s President Alexander Lukashenko said Monday. Advising his nation to “calm down over [Western] democracy,” Lukashenko implored the students and faculty of the Belarusian State Economic University to consider what is happening in Spain, Italy, France and Greece,... 

Students clash with riot police during a demonstration in downtown Rome on October 5, 2012 against deep cuts in the education budget. Thousands of people have taken to the streets of Italy to protest against the government’s financial policies. The protesters, who were mainly students, staged demonstrations across Italy on Saturday to express their opposition to Prime Minister Mario Monti’s austerity... 

Cyprus may lose financial support from the EU due to “suspicious ties” with Russian oligarchs. According to information published in Spiegel magazine, the German Federal Intelligence Service suspects that the loan, which the EU and the IMF may give the country, will only sweeten the life of Russian businessmen who keep their money in Cyprus. It was written in Monday’s issue of Spiegel...