Ratings agency Moody’s downgraded some of Italy’s major banks on Monday of this week.
Spain has been rocked this week by a wave of resistance by workers and unemployed activists. They are protesting at a £50 billion cuts package announced by Mariano Rajoy, the country’s right wing prime minister.
The political scene since the inauguration of Mohamed Mursi as Egypt’s president has been extremely fluid.
Spanish riot police fired rubber bullets into today’s mass demonstration in support of striking miners in Madrid.
Over 150,000 people in Madrid saluted the "black march" of striking miners, which triumphantly entered the city on Tuesday night after marching halfway across Spain.
People in Sudan have been protesting for weeks against Omar al-Bashir’s repressive dictatorship.
Collusion between Japan’s government, regulators and private nuclear operator Tepco caused last year’s nuclear disaster at the Fukushima plant. That’s the conclusion of a six-month parliamentary investigation into the disaster.
Some 2,500 people marched against fascists in Nikaia, Athens, on Thursday of last week. The march saw the biggest mobilisation yet from Pakistani people. And for the first time the whole left came together.
Striking Spanish miners were set to arrive in Madrid late on Tuesday night of this week.
Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Mexico City last Saturday, saying that the recent presidential election had been rigged.
Our revolution is first of all the rejection of decades of one party rule, where we could only have one ideology, one way of thinking and where we were isolated from any real political debate.
The new president of Egypt, Mohamed Mursi from the Muslim Brotherhood, has quickly come up against the contradictions of his position with the military still in power. He has issued a decree demanding the reinstatement of the parliament.
