Rating agency Moody’s has cut its rating on Spanish government debt by three notches from A3 to Baa3. Cyprus’s sovereign debt was lowered by two notches from Ba1 to Ba3. The agency said Wednesday that Spain’s debt burden would increase once the EU has approved a plan to help the country’s banks. It has Spain under further review and could lower its rating even further, Reuters reports.... 

Spain will take its dispute with Britain over the sovereignty of the Gibraltar Rock to the United Nations, Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs says, after the provocative projection of British Queen’s giant image on the Rock earlier this week. The image of the Queen was projected on the northern face of the rock next to Britain’s flag on Tuesday night as the youngest son of the Queen and his wife... 

The Greek extreme right party Golden Dawn has stepped up assaults on immigrants by threatening to remove them and their children from hospitals and kindergartens. The neo-Nazi rhetoric comes as Greece prepares for its crucial elections scheduled for Sunday, June 17 If Chrysi Avgi (Golden Dawn) gets into parliament as polls predict, the party says it will carry out raids on hospitals and kindergartens... 

EU countries have agreed that border control in the Schengen zone can be restored temporarily under “exceptional circumstances.” The measure is moved by the uncontrolled flow of migrants into the EU in the wake of the economic crisis. Under the proposal, which was approved at a meeting of EU home affairs ministers in Luxembourg, the control of national borders the Schengen Area would be... 

European Union apparatchiks are preparing to lockdown Europe following Greece’s exit. From the Associated Press today: Olivier Bailly said Tuesday that, legally, limits could be imposed on movement of people and money across national borders within the EU if it’s necessary to protect public order or public security — but not on economic grounds. “Some people are working on scenarios,” he... 

Police at a building where blogger Alexei Navalny lives. Moscow prosecutors have searched the homes of several Russian opposition figures. They are investigating the violence during previous protests. The searches came a day before a key opposition rally in the Russian capital. Officials of the Russian Investigative Committee have searched the homes of Aleksey Navalny, Sergey Udaltsov, Ilya Yashin... 

Vladimir Putin has been busier than Obama making excuses recently with trips to China and talks with leaders from Iran and Afghanistan. Self interests aside, he clearly demonstrates a desire in defending Russia and nurturing Russia’s future. However, like any good farmer, he’s found many weeds sown by the enemy. The new law passed recently is a sword that protects Russian citizens and... 

The logo of Euro 2012 football championships co-hosted by Ukraine and Poland Hundreds of people have taken to the streets in western Poland to protest against the Euro 2012 football championships underway in the country, chanting “bread not games.” Nearly 500 protesters rallied in Poznan on Sunday against the Euro 2012 games arguing that too much money was spent organizing the games. “We’re... 

Poor countries that adopt unhealthy ‘Westernized’ lifestyles are expected to see the greatest rise. The number of people with cancer is set to surge by more than 75% across the world by 2030, with particularly sharp rises in poor countries as they adopt unhealthy “Westernized” lifestyles, a study said on Friday. Many developing countries were expected to see a rise in living standards in coming... 

A Euro coin with the Spanish national flag in the background. A recent report released by a Spanish institution says 25 percent of Spain’s population lives below poverty line, 2 percent higher than last year, as the country grapples with the highest rate of impoverishment among European states. According to an annual report issued by the Spanish Economic and Social Council (CES), lack of jobs for... 

Archaeologists have found two skeletons whose chests were pierced with iron rods to supposedly stop them from turning into vampires. The medieval remains, found in the Black Sea town of Sozopol in Bulgaria are examples of a pagan practice common in some villages up until a century ago. “These skeletons stabbed with rods illustrate a practice which was common in some Bulgarian villages up until... 

New Delhi fires a long range missile from Wheeler Island, off the coast of India, in the state of Orissa on April 19, 2012. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) reports that despite a decline in the total number of nuclear warheads in the world, major atomic arsenals are modernized continuously. At the start of 2012 eight states, the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom,... 

Moscow city court has upheld a decision to turn down the LGBT activists’ request for permission to hold gay pride parades for the next 100 years. Earlier, Tverskoy district court ruled lawful the decision of the Moscow municipal government to ban public events that can be qualified as gay parades from March 2012 till May 2112. Nikolay Alekseyev, one of the leaders of the Russian LGBT community and... 

Spain’s Minister of Finance and Public Administrations Cristobal Montoro The Greek stock market has plummeted 5.9 percent after Standard & Poor’s credit rating agency warned that the country has a one-in-three chance of leaving the eurozone. The minister made the remarks on Tuesday, admitting that Spain’s high borrowing costs have shut out bond markets at a time when the country seeks... 

The Irish Medical Times reveals that 70% of adults in the fluoridated Republic are above the medically-safe daily fluoride intake and this is directly due to drinking water being fluoridated. In the UK which is largely un-fluoridated, a sizeable proportion of adults are also above safe levels. Only in February 2012 the European Commission again warned that the very youngest are at greatest risk with...