Obwohl die japanische Verfassung ausdrücklich verbietet, dass das Land einen „Erstschlag” gegen ein anderes Land führt, behauptet ein hochrangiger Vertreter der herrschenden Liberal-Demokratischen Partei (LDP), dass sein Land das Recht habe, Nordkorea legal zum jetzigen Zeitpunkt anzugreifen.

„Think about it Bersani, think about it. It could really be the beginning of a – who knows? – collaboration. Try. Try to vote for her,“ he said. „Let‘s start from there. Then we‘ll see: electoral reimbursements, an anti-corruption law, making ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi ineligible. Maybe we could find consensus“.

The journalist known for her hard-hitting reports into alleged corruption and waste of public money was quoted at 1.90 to 1 by Bet2875 against Amato‘s 1.80.

I got this feeling today, the world stands still.

LARGE depositors who kept their money in the two biggest Cypriot banks stand to lose up to 8.3 billion euros through the restructuring of the two institutions, Cyprus Mail reports citing a European Commission document.

In the initial letter, which was also sent to House President Yiannakis Omirou, Draghi reminded both men that a central bank governor could only be dismissed on grounds specified by EU law, adding that any dismissal would be subject to review by the EU’s Court of Justice.

The Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (Cyta) and Cyprus Ports Authority (CPA) yesterday criticised the troika’s demands to come up with €1.4 billion through privatisations of SGOs, saying they believe they can use their own resources to cover the amount demanded by the troika as part of Cyprus’ bailout agreement.

No former American Presidents will be present after Bill Clinton, George Bush and his son George W Bush declined invitations

Former US vice president Dick Cheney and former American secretary of state Henry Kissinger are expected to attend Margaret Thatcher‘s funeral on Wednesday.

A report by former foreign minister Hubert Védrine claimed French influence would not be improved by reversing Nicolas Sarkozy’s decision to return to Nato’s integrated command structure. In an open letter, former government adviser Régis Debray disagrees.

The time for sherpas and go-betweens is over in the race for the presidency of Italy.

Some sectors of the state prosecution service are practically paralysed due to a lack of human and technical resources, agreed Marinho Pinto, the head of Portugal’s Law Society.

Agency now predicts that Spanish economy will contract by 1.6 percent in 2013

The unions said they would also be holding protests on May 1.

Die von Beppe Grillo gegründete Fünf Sterne Bewegung hat ihre Kandidatin für das Präsidentenamt gewählt. Doch die Euro-Gilde aus Bersanis P.D. und Montis Technokraten haben den Präsidenten bereits ausgedealt.

‚François Hollande and his ministers face embarrassing accusations that they belong to a group known as the gauche caviar – what British people call champagne socialists.‘

Italian judges ordered the seizure of more than 1.8 billion euros ($2.4 billion) of assets as part of a probe into suspected fraud against troubled lender Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena , prosecutors said on Tuesday.

In one breath with his unbridled optimism, Samaras announced also the dismissal of 15,000 civil servants: : 4,000 should be sacked until the end of 2013 and 11,000 until the end of 2014. The objections of his coalition partners PASOK and Democratic Left were given in after the Troika pressure and the usual blackmail “Do or no loan tranche!”.

An initiative to bring Israel and six Arab countries‘ ministers together under NATO‘s Mediterranean Dialogue group for the first time since 2008 has been nixed by Turkey and Egypt, who said “it was not the right time“ for such a meeting. ‚

Greece‘s four major banks, including Alpha, need 27.5 billion euros in fresh funds to restore their solvency ratios to levels required by the country‘s central bank after incurring losses from a sovereign debt write-down and impaired loans.

Without explaining how it would cut costs on the government‘s bloated payroll, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said a deal struck with the country‘s international lenders that calls for the firing of 15,000 workers over the next two years would allow all of them to be replaced with new, younger workers

THENS – Hospitals will shut down and ferries will remain docked as public hospital employees and maritime workers walk out in a 24-hour strike against government austerity measures.

The announcement of a “bilateral summit” meeting in Russia in September, and of the planned meeting between the two presidents on the sidelines of a Group of 8 meeting in Northern Ireland in mid-June, came as Mr. Obama’s national security adviser, Tom Donilon, met in Moscow on Monday with Mr. Putin and other top officials to push for renewed cooperation on security issues.

(12.04.) Der Sicherheitsberater von Barack Obama soll am Montag, dem 15. April, nach Moskau kommen,

U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday set up two rounds of talks in coming months in a bid to move past a fight over human rights and seek common ground on issues such as Iran, Syria and North Korea.