PARIS — A Paris court on Friday sentenced a Franco-Algerian particle physicist to five years in prison, one of them suspended, on the charge of “criminal association with the intent to prepare terrorist acts,” ruling that the man’s online correspondence in 2009 with a presumed member of Al Qaeda constituted ...
Josep Lago/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Mario Draghi, center, the president of the European Central Bank, said at press conference on the outskirts of Barcelona, that it was understandable that governments would be tempted to raise taxes “under extreme urgency.” BARCELONA — Ahead of crucial elections in France and Greece, ...
BRUSSELS — A meeting of European Union finance ministers turned a little unruly late Wednesday when George Osborne, Britain’s chancellor of the Exchequer, accused his counterparts of making him look like an “idiot” because he pushed for approval of stricter banking laws. When the meeting finally broke up, Britain stood ...
MOSCOW — On May Day, this city partied like it was 1951. Tens of thousands of trade unionists, waving boughs of artificial flowers, marched to oompah music down the broad thoroughfare that leads to the Kremlin. Along the route an earsplitting female voice exclaimed, though a public address system affixed ...
LONDON — Fresh details about the phone hacking at Rupert Murdoch’s British newspapers in Tuesday’s detailed parliamentary report hint at new legal and criminal developments in a scandal that has already spanned more than five years and produced dozens of arrests. Dotted through its 121 pages are references to sealed ...
ISTANBUL — The first thing you see are the cigarette butts. There are thousands of them — 4,213 to be exact — mounted behind plexiglass on the ground floor of the Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk’s new museum, named for and based on his 2008 novel, “The Museum of Innocence.” It’s ...
Christoph Bangert for The New York Times Victor García, left, Cristina Fernández-Aparicio Ruiz, Albert Girones and Carolina Martínez are among the young professionals who have been drawn to Germany from Spain for employment.
BERLIN — There’s nothing like having oil and natural gas to lift national self-confidence and power. The Caucasus republic of Azerbaijan is no exception. With less than four weeks to go before it hosts the Eurovision Song Contest, the Azeri authorities are working against the clock to finish the Baku ...
LONDON — The Danish authorities said on Friday they had arrested three men in the capital, Copenhagen, accused of planning a terrorist operation and of illicit possession of fire-arms. The Danish intelligence agency, PET, said the men, seized at two separate locations, were a 22-year-old Jordanian citizen, a 23-year-old Turkish ...
April 26, 2012, 4:55 am By J. DAVID GOODMANIn order to view this feature, you must download the latest version of flash player here. The Lede is following a second day of testimony by Rupert Murdoch on Thursday and other developments in a judicial inquiry into the behavior of the ...
LONDON — In the protracted saga of Britain’s tabloid newspaper scandal, there have been few episodes more challenging for Rupert Murdoch and his son James than the testimony each will give this week at the judicial inquiry that has been holding excoriating hearings for the past five months into wrongdoing ...
OSLO — The self-described anti-Islamic militant who has admitted killing 77 people in a bombing and shooting spree last July told bereaved families on Monday that he had also lost his family and friends as a result of the massacre. Police officers flanked Anders Behring Breivik in court before his ...
Justyna Mielnikiewicz for The New York Times FROM SCRATCH A marshy spot on the Black Sea in the Anaklia region of Georgia where the government plans to build an entirely new city. ZUGDIDI, Georgia — Reaching the site where Georgia’s government is breaking ground for Lazika, its grandiose city of ...
Martin Bureau/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images A supporter of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, of the Front de Gauche, at a rally for the left-wing candidate in Paris last week.
Denis Charlet/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Nicolas Sarkozy could be the first one-term French president since 1981. PARIS — The candidate — energetic, bold, indefatigable — is sure he will win, aides say, as he pulls energy from his big crowds.
Daniel Sannum Lauten/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Anders Behring Breivik with his lawyers in court in Oslo on Wednesday. OSLO — The self-described anti-Islamic militant on trial for killing 77 people in Norway last summer insisted on Wednesday that he belonged to a cell within an organization with members across ...
OSLO — The self-styled anti-Islamic militant on trial for killing 77 people in Norway’s worst peacetime atrocity faced a grilling by prosecutors on Wednesday over the mysterious group that he claims to have founded. Appearing uncomfortable on the stand, the defendant, Anders Behring Breivik, 33, sweated and equivocated as he ...
