POPULATION-YUGOSLAVIA: Romas Fight For Their Rights after Changes in Serbia

An exhibition of documents and photographs depicting the life of Serbia's Roma population all through the last century is drawing to a close here in Belgrade.

POLITICS-SPAIN: ETA Bomb Kills Two Factory Workers, One an Ally

The Basque separatist organisation ETA is blamed for the carbomb that killed two men and injured four others Thursday in the city of Ordizia, in Spain's Basque region. One of the dead was a member of the illegal group's political wing.

RIGHTS-SPAIN: Women’s Groups Fight Move to Decriminalise Abuse

Spain's leading feminist associations spoke out Wednesday against an initiative by the Judiciary to decriminalise the abuse many women suffer in their own homes at the hands of their male partners.

ENVIRONMENT: Euro MPs Open Door to Lifting GMO Licensing Moratorium

The European Parliament Wednesday voted to impose tougher rules on the release and monitoring of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), but in doing so have also taken an important step towards lifting the European Union's (EU) three-year moratorium on the licensing of new biotech products.

POLITICS: Human Rights Watch Calls on EU to Press Russia on Chechnya

Russian officials have done almost nothing to investigate atrocities in Chechnya and European officials should not let them off the hook, the international rights group, Human Rights Watch says.

DEVELOPMENT-EUROPE: Aid Policies Myopic, Experts Say

The European Commission (EC) has a long way to go before it can fulfill the aims of its newly-articulated development policy, development experts and experts meeting here this week have said.

HEALTH-SPAIN: Seven Arrested in ‘Mad Cow’ Disease Scare

Seven individuals were arrested in Spain after 4,634 breaches of animal health regulations were detected in the inspections carried out as a result of the crisis caused by the appearance of cases of "mad cow" disease in Spain, the Natural Protection Service (Seprona) reported Thursday.

RIGHTS-SPAIN: Solidarity Grows as Immigrant Situation Worsens

The situation of immigrants is deteriorating in Spain, but civil society groups and opposition political parties are expressing growing solidarity, and farmers are pressing the government for permission to hire foreign nationals who are already in the country in search of a job.

ECONOMY-YUGOSLAVIA: Bringing Down Milosevic Was the Easy Part

"Bringing (former Yugoslav strongman Slobodan) Milosevic down seemed to be the easiest task for us. The hardest part will be the economic recovery of the country," Mladjan Dinkic, the new governor of Central Bank of Yugoslavia, (NBJ) said recently.

MEDIA-RUSSIA: Dreams of Press Freedom Face Reality Check

Russia has long prided itself on its freedom of press and expression, which remarked a dramatic departure from the totalitarian past in the wake of the Soviet collapse in 1991.

POLITICS-BURMA: Situation Remains Fragile, EU Mission Says

Burmese pro-democracy leaders in exile are keeping fingers crossed after a European Union (EU) mission expressed "cautious optimism" about a possible resolution of the decade-old political deadlock in the South-east Asian nation.

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For three years Maria Neagu, 28, mother of five young children, was beaten almost daily by her husband.

CORRUPTION: French Corruption With Worldwide Ramifications

The ongoing process against former French Foreign Minister, Roland Dumas, and six other officials of the oil enterprise Elf Aquitaine on the charges of corruption and abuse of state power reveals the worldwide ramifications of the dubious practices typical of France's politics during the 1980s and 1990s.

RIGHTS-ROMANIA: Domestic Violence On The Rise

For three years Maria Neagu, 28, mother of five young children, was beaten almost daily by her husband.

\REPEAT\REPEAT\DIAMONDS-CONFLICT: Political Conflict Brings Commercial Dispute

Diamonds are at the heart of a new commercial war breaking out between a group of African nations and a powerful international lobby led by the US and Britain.

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Diamonds are at the heart of a new commercial war breaking out between a group of African nations and a powerful international lobby led by the US and Britain.

SOCIETY-YUGOSLAVIA: Building An Effective Civic Society

There is little doubt among the people of Serbia that their energy and mass protests on October 5 last year - when a million of them took to the streets of Belgrade - dealt the final blow to the 10 years of the regime of Slobodan Milosevic.

DIAMONDS-CONFLICT: Political Conflict Brings Commercial Dispute

Diamonds are at the heart of a new commercial war breaking out between a group of African nations and a powerful international lobby led by the US and Britain.

POLITICS: With EU mission Underway, Trade Unions Seek to Keep Up Pressure on Burma

As the European Union (EU) began talks this week with Burma's (Myanmar) military junta to push for democracy, the world's largest confederation of trade unions Tuesday announced it would seek a world-wide ban on investment and trade with Rangoon.

SOCIETY-BRITAIN: Medieval Matters Rock Britain

Britain is facing up to an unusual revolution when its aristocratic classes take to the streets this March to protest against a move by Parliament to ban fox-hunting with hounds.

POPULATION-SPAIN: Immigrants Threatened with Deportation

A new immigration law took effect Tuesday in Spain just as thousands of foreigners face expulsion, hundreds of people reached day four of a hunger strike and the government announced migration accords with seven countries.