Russia News Net (Free subscription) | yesterday
MOSCOW, July 25 (RIA Novosti) - Russia welcomes the European Court of Human Rights' ruling that Latvia must pay World War II veteran Vasily Kononov 30,000 euros ($47,000) in damages, the Foreign Minis...
lloydslist.com (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
THE European Parliament will attempt to knock rough edges off the proposed class society directive, a newly-released document shows.
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
... in prison and the charges changed to "war crimes." Kononov filed an appeal with the court in Strasbourg the same year.Russia subsequently brought pressure to bear on Latvian and European authorities over the case, and in April 2004, then-Russian president, Vladimir Putin, granted Kononov Russian citizenship.In 2007, the European court dropped all charges against Kononov, and ruled he was...
Three Bits o Trivia (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Mariners used to call sharks sea dogs. There are only about 700 Samaritans. No one knows how many are good. St. Olav's Church, in Tallinn, Estonia, was the world's tallest building from 1549 to 1625, when it was surpassed by the Strasbourg Cathedral. It currently houses a Baptist church.
Times Online (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
... said that the EU “has become more and more secularist.” The late John Paul II addressed the Strasbourg Parliament in 1988. Since then there have been several clashes between the Vatican and the EU, culminating in dismay over the removal of “God” from drafts of the EU constitution. The Pope’s refusal is particularly hurtful as the Parliament’s president is Hans-Gert Pöttering, a German Catholic...
Resonance FM Podcasts (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
The continuing saga of Maurice and the local council who are threatening to remove his dogs. Maurice has lost 3 consecutive court cases and is now considering taking the case to Strasbourg.
Daily Express (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago
... capsule” of Meptazinol that she had taken months earlier.The hair was sent to Dr Pascal Kintz in Strasbourg, the world’s top authority on the relatively new subject of scientific hair analysis, who was able to find traces of the “potent” painkiller.Forensic toxicologist Fiona Burton said Milly had taken a quantity of tablets “significantly more than one tablet but not as many as 28”. Det...
BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday
He moves from Ismaili at the end of a protracted legal wrangle which also involved Egyptian champions Al Ahli and the French club Racing Strasbourg.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
... sulking on the outskirts, we compromise. Similarly, when the Grand Mufti of Syria addressed the Strasbourg parliament earlier this year he acknowledged that his (Muslim) religious views may clash with others: "Tolerance means defending one's views, hearing out others and respecting their convictions."
Irish Election (Free subscription) | yesterday
... guy went on then to complain about the curtailment of freedom of speech creeping into Britain from Strasbourg. He was referring to the protection of privacy which is enshrined in the European convention on Human rights, which Britain signed in 1998. The convention doesn’t provide an absolute right to privacy, but, basically, specifies that privacy should be protected unless there are genuine...
Tim Worstall (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
That Friday morning 8 am visit to the signing in office in Strasbourg. Apt.
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | yesterday
... 16/8/12 Rhine River or Koln, Germany 17/8/12 Black Forest (Triberg), Germany 18/8/12 Strasbourg, France->Basel, Switz 19/8/12 Basel->Bern, Switz 20/8/12 Bern -Day trip Zurich-, Switz 21/8/12 Bern -Day trip Lucern-, Switz 22/8/12 Bern -Interlaken-, Switz 23/8/12 Bern->Bonn 24/8/12 Bonn->Paris, France 25/8/12 Paris 26/8/12 Paris->Frankfurt 27/8/12 Frankfurt->Seattle, USA...
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
STRASBOURG, April 14 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's delegation to PACE has gathered sufficient signatures to force an investigation into controversial claims made by former Hague Tribunal prosecutor Car...
西儒 ─ The Western Confucian (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
That this "rejection came soon after the Pope agreed to spend his 81st birthday visiting President Bush" will likely cause much misunderstanding — Pope rejects invitation by ‘apostate’ Strasbourg . Say what you will (and I have) about the American government and its wars, we do not (yet) see the "militant secularism" that we see in Europe. That "Mr Bush is regarded by the Vatican as far more...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
"Unfortunately, our press is less free today after another judgment based on privacy laws emanating from Europe," Myler said."How those very general laws should work in practice has never been debated in the UK parliament. English judges are left to apply those laws to individual cases here using guidance from judges in Strasbourg who are unfriendly to freedom of expression. The result is that...
