News archive of May 2015

Greece's government is confident of reaching a deal with its creditors this week and is open to pushing back parts of its anti-austerity programme to make that happen, the country's interior minister said Saturday.

Rumors abound, of Cristiano Ronaldo dating Alessia Tedeschi, a hot Italian model who recently appeared bathing in Miami, in a gold string bikini. Enjoy:

Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan said on May 30 that Turkish authorities' decision to take over Bank Asya was not ?political.?

?If it was political, why would [the government] wait for one and a half years? All these actions could be taken long time ago if it was a political decision,? Babacan said in an interview to private broadcaster Kanal 7.

Astra Giurgiu defeated Dinamo Bucharest by the score of 2-0 (1-0), on Friday evening, in an away match of the 34th and the last leg of the Liga I football championship.

Astra imposed itself by the goals scored by Denis Alibec (18) and Constantin Budescu (55 ? penalty), in a match ended by Dinamo with one player less, after Steliano Filip was eliminated (72).

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy announced that his UMP party will change its name and will be called “Les Républicains” (The Republicans). Sarkozy aims to change the image of his party and prepare for national elections in 2017.

A Belgian deputy of Turkish origin has been expelled from her party for refusing to call the 1915 killings of Ottoman Armenians as ?genocide.?

The mayor of a Bulgarian city dropped 50 kilos of sugar on the roads to “chase away bad luck”, after many fatal car accidents took place recently.

Four people, amongst which two children, were killed, and six more were injured in car accidents within the town of 25,000.

Moscow has issued a list of European Union politicians barred from Russia in response to EU's own sanctions and travel bans on Russian officials imposed over the annexation of Crimea and the Kremlin's alleged role in the conflict in eastern Ukraine, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has said.

FIFA leader Sepp Blatter said May 30 he was "shocked" at the way the US judiciary has targeted football?s world body and slammed what he called a "hate" campaign by Europe?s football leaders.
  

A growing number of extremist groups from Africa to southeast Asia are shifting their allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group, leading to greater risks for "cross-pollination" among conflicts beyond Syria and Iraq, the head of Interpol said May 29.