The bodies of 72 Ukrainian miners have been recovered in what is believed to be the worst mining accident in the country’s history. Rescuers are searching for another 30 miners still trapped hundreds of metres underground. More than 360 miners made it to the surface alive after the methane blast in the […]
Uncertainty clouded a bid by a group of Spanish investors for Spain’s flag carrier Iberia Monday after Basque bank BBK said it was still deciding if it would participate and investment fund Omega Capital said it was not involved in the deal.In a statement sent Thursday to stock market regular CNMV, Iberia said it had […]
Al Qaeda fighters fleeing Baghdad and Anbar have moved into Iraq’s volatile north, making that region the country’s most violent, a U.S. commander said on Monday.Army Maj. Gen. Mark Hertling, commander of forces in areas north of Baghdad, said that while violence has declined throughout the country, the number of attacks in his region is […]
Partial official results on Monday confirmed victory for the Democratic Party of ex-guerrilla Hashim Thaci in the parliamentary election of Serbia’s breakaway Kosovo province, setting up coalition talks.The Central Election Commission said Thaci’s opposition PDK had won 34 percent in Saturday’s ballot, beating the once-dominant Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) into second place.
The LDK saw […]
One of the UK’s most-wanted men, who has spent more than 13 years on the run after murdering an off-duty police officer, has been arrested in the Netherlands, police said today.Dutch police arrested 45-year-old James Hurley, who was jailed for life in 1989 after shooting the policeman during a bank robbery in Hertfordshire, on November […]