ENVIRONMENT: Greenpeace Director Warns Multinationals of Kyoto- Related Boycott

Gerd Leipold has a simple message for corporate sponsors backing US President George W. Bush in opposing the Kyoto Protocol on climate control: You will be held accountable.

POLITICS: Press Freedom Watchdog Calls on European Parliament to Condemn ETA

The media and human rights watchdog group Reporters without Borders is calling on the European Parliament to pass a new resolution confirming the European Union's "determination not to accept the campaign of terror in Spanish Basque country".

POLITICS-BRITAIN: Oldham Riots Reveal Crack in Multicultural Myth

Riot police will be out on the streets of Oldham again Tuesday night hoping to keep rampaging Asian and white youngsters from tearing up the town as they have done for the past three nights.

DEVELOPMENT-SPAIN: More than 1.5 Million Living in Severe Poverty

Between 1.5 and 1.7 million people are living in "severe poverty" in Spain, a country of 40 million, according to the Catholic charity group Caritas.

DEVELOPMENT: EU Pledges New Link Between Emergency Relief, Development

A European Union (EU) commission put forth Wednesday a proposal it says is designed to better link emergency relief, rehabilitation and long-term development policy.

POLITICS-ITALY: Berlusconi Win Worries Immigrants, Activists

The electoral triumph of centre-rightist Silvio Berlusconi in Italy's parliamentary elections Sunday has made hundreds of thousands of immigrants nervous as they now fear deportation, and has disappointed activists who want the government to designate more funds for the nations of the developing South.

EUROPE: US-Slovak Report Provokes Russian Retort as States Eye NATO Membership

Accusations of Cold War rhetoric overshadowed Friday a Slovak government-organised conference for countries seeking to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.

POLITICS-SPAIN: Basque Voters Will Respond to ETA at the Polls

Basque voters in northern Spain will respond to the violence waged by the illegal separatist group ETA next Sunday at the polls, the leading candidates for the presidency of the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country and human rights leaders said Monday.

ENVIRONMENT: Victims of Chernobyl Call on Donors for Help

Fifteen years after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident, the United Nations says that increased and continued international funding for humanitarian projects is vital to address the environmental, socio-economic and health implications of the disaster.

CULTURE-TURKEY: Comment on Pop Star’s Sexuality Sparks Debate on National Values

A legislator's attacks on a popular singer and the minister of the economy here have highlighted just how much Turkish views on issues such as sexual orientation and religious and national values have changed.

ECONOMY: Gloomy Economic Picture Painted for Eastern, Central Europe

The economies of most Eastern and Central European countries are headed for difficult days, says the Institute of International Finance (IIF).

RIGHTS-TURKEY: Government Ignores Demands of Prisoners on Hunger Strike

The Turkish government has refused to make concessions to hundreds of prisoners currently on a hunger strike started to protest the conditions of their imprisonment.

ECONOMY-TURKEY: Labour, Small Business Criticise Economic Recovery Programme

Only the government here appears to be pleased with its new economic recovery programme.

POLITICS-MOLDOVA: Communists Complete Comeback

Moldova's Communist leader Vladimir Voronin Wednesday became the country's third president since independence in 1991, capping an impressive comeback by the Communist party.

/REPEATING FOR POINTS NEEDING/ENVIRONMENT: EU Fails to Decouple Natural Resource Use and Economic Growth

The European Union (EU) has failed to decouple economic growth from the intensified use of natural resources, thus increasing the burden on the global environment, says a new study produced for the European Environment Agency (EEA) in Copenhagen.

RIGHTS-EU: Another Step Towards Gender Equality in Parliament

The European Union is moving towards making it obligatory for lists of candidates to the European Parliament to contain the same number of women as men, said Paloma Saavedra, coordinator of the European Women's Lobby.

ENVIRONMENT: EU Fails to Decouple Natural Resource Use and Economic Growth

The European Union (EU) has failed to decouple economic growth from the intensified use of natural resources, thus increasing the burden on the global environment, says a new study produced for the European Environment Agency (EEA) in Copenhagen.

POLITICS-YUGOSLAVIA: Milosevic Arrested after 36-Hour Drama,

Former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic was arrested early Sunday, after a 36-hour drama that captivated the country.

HEALTH-EUROPE: Germany Helps Russia as TB Tightens Grip

With tuberculosis taking on epidemic proportions throughout Russia, Germany's leading service enterprise for development co-operation, GTZ, has joined hands with the World Health Organisation to treat all new infections on a priority basis.

POLITICS-RUSSIA: Putin Reshuffles Cabinet, Pledges to Demilitarise Political Life

President Vladimir Putin reshuffled his Cabinet Wednesday in what he calls a "personnel revolution" geared "toward demilitarising Russia's political life".

AGRICULTURE-FRANCE: Foot-and-Mouth, BSE Show Price of Agriculture Policy

The detection of two cases of food-and-mouth disease (MCD) and the intensification of the 'mad cow disease' or Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) in France reveal the harm caused by the industrialisation of agriculture and livestock breeding in the European Union (EU).