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The United States and the European Union strongly condemned Sunday, April 5, North Korea’s launch of a long range rocket that could potentially reach Alaska, which Pyongyang claimed was used for a satellite.

Czechs were bracing for possible riots Saturday, April 4, as activists opposed to U.S. plans to install part of a missile defense system in their country said they would go ahead with a protest march during President Barack Obama’s visit to Prague this weekend, despite a ban on the demonstration.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization named Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen as its new secretary general Saturday, April 4, after Turkey lifted its objections to the choice.

World leaders meeting in London pledged on Thursday, April 2, a whopping $1.1 trillion to global institutions such as the International Monetary Fund to combat the global economic crisis, prompting investors to buy up stocks while the Dow industrials in New York surged over 8,000 for the first time in two months.

Montenegro’s Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic claimed victory in the Balkan country’s general election Monday, March 30, and pledged to speed up its entry into the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

The Czech government has collapsed after losing a non-confidence vote in parliament late Tuesday, March 24. The vote came after the center right government of Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek was criticized for the way it handled the economic crisis and for supporting a controversial American anti-missile defense system.

Officials on Monday, March 23, began investigating plane crashes in three countries which killed 16 people, most of them in United States, where aviation experts wanted to know why a single-engine plane plunged into a cemetery in the northwestern state of Montana.

Macedonia held presidential and local elections Sunday, March 22, seen as vital to the country’s plans to join the European Union and NATO.

Hungary’s Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurscany said Saturday, March 21, he is resigning because of his government’s plunging popularity as it struggles to overcome Hungary’s worst economic crisis in recent memory.

An Austrian man who imprisoned his daughter for 24 years and fathered seven children with her was sentenced on Thursday, March 18, to life in prison, which he will serve mainly in a psychiatric facility.

An Austrian man who fathered seven children with a daughter he held captive in a cellar for more than two decades has pleaded guilty to rape and incest, but denies murdering a newborn son. Josef Fritzl spoke Monday, March 16, at the start of what has been dubbed Austria’s trial of the century.

Russia said Sunday, March 15, it will send a permanent observer to the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, amid mounting concerns among producers about falling oil prices.

A 17-year-old boy opened fire at his former former high school in southwestern Germany Wednesday, March 11, killing at least 15 people, before he was shot dead by security forces, police said.

International judges and prosecutors were preparing Wednesday, March 4 for a complicad trial after former Bosnian-Serb leader Radovan Karadzic refused to enter a plea to an amended indictment of genocide and crimes against humanity.

European Union leaders have ruled out a multi-billion dollar rescue plan for Eastern Europe in the face of the global economic crisis, despite warnings from Hungary that the rejection could lead to an economic “iron curtain” across the continent.

In a move raising eyebrows from Jerusalem to Washington, Russian and Iranian officials began a test run of Iran’s first Nuclear plant, Worthy News established Thursday, February 26.

A Turkish Airlines passenger plane with 135 people aboard crashed into a field in light fog while trying to land at Amsterdam’s main airport Wednesday, February 25, killing nine people and injuring more than 50, an area official said. The incident came amid revelations that Turkish Airlines has Europe’s worst safety record, Worthy News established.

Europe was seeking a new “global deal” Tuesday, February 24, after British Prime Minister Gordon Brown launched an initiative that includes unprecedented new regulations for financial markets and hedge funds to tame the worst economic crisis in eight decades.

Russia and Iran are discussing major weapons deals, shortly after Tehran announced the development of an unmanned aircraft capable of striking Israel and Iranian made munitions were discovered in Iraq, Worthy News learned Friday, February 20.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez celebrated on February 16, as his referendum to remove term limits from public officials allowing them to run for re-election as many times as they want.