Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, has urged India to reduce its imports of Iranian oil and to keep up pressure on the Islamic republic regarding its nuclear programme. Clinton told school children and activists at a town hall meeting in the eastern city of Kolkata on Monday that there was an “adequate supply” [...]
Two split High Court orders have allowed top leaders of the BNP-led 18-party alliance to escape arrest for a certain period. The presiding judge of a division bench, Justice Moyeenul Islam Chowdhury, granted anticipatory bail to the accused till submission of the charge sheets of blast and arson cases. While the other judge, Justice Nazrul [...]
Juventus won the Serie A title for the 28th time following a 2-0 win at Cagliari as nearest rivals AC Milan crashed 4-2 in their city derby against Inter on Sunday. That gave Juve an unassailable four-point lead at the top with just one game left. Mirko Vucinic and a Michele Canini own goal gave [...]
Voters in France and Greece redrew Europe’s political map Sunday in a powerful backlash against the German-led cure for the region’s debt crisis: painful austerity. In France, voters swept Francois Hollande into the nation’s highest office, ejecting President Nicolas Sarkozy and bringing the Socialists back to the Elysee Palace for the first time in 17 [...]
The head of an Italian nuclear energy company has been shot and wounded leaving his home in the northern Italian city of Genoa. Roberto Adinolfi, 53, was shot in the leg by a gunman on a motorbike but is said not to be in a serious condition. Ansaldo Nucleare is part of aerospace and defence [...]
Francois Hollande’s honeymoon after his election as France’s first centre-left president in 17 years was cut short on Monday by jittery financial markets eager for signals on his policies and how hard he will push back against German-led austerity. The Socialist beat conservative Nicolas Sarkozy with 51.7 percent of Sunday’s runoff vote after a bruising [...]
Polls opened Monday in Syria with more than 7,000 candidates vying for 250 seats in parliament amid mounting international pressure on President Bashar al-Assad to step aside and end the violence that has seen thousands die. The opposition urged Syrians to boycott the elections, saying a vote for any of the candidates amounted to a [...]
Vladimir Putin has been inaugurated as president of Russia in a lavish ceremony in the capital, Moscow. Mr Putin is returning to the presidency after an absence of four years in which he served as prime minister. The outgoing President, Dmitry Medvedev, was widely seen as an ally of Mr Putin. He won a third [...]