News archive of May 2015

Romanian MEP Emilian Pavel says the goal of Friends of Serbia group is to improve the relations between Serbia and the EP.

This should happen "with a view to its further progress in the EU integration process," the newly elected chairman of the informal group in the European Parliament said.

The Vatican?s financial watchdog agency said May 29 that it received 147 reports of suspicious financial transactions last year, a sign that tough new anti-money laundering norms are taking hold at its scandal-marred bank.

On tiny specks in the disputed Spratly archipelago of the South China Sea, Vietnamese and Filipino children skip to school each day. Not far away, China is building lighthouses and weather stations on reclaimed land. Further north, a Chinese cruise ship takes "patriotic" tourists to a separate group of contested islands. 

An endangered juvenile female dolphin was found dead from a shotgun wound after it washed ashore on the Bosphorus coast in Istanbul?s Bebek district on May 26. 

Bar Refaeli seems happier than ever. She seems content in expressing her loving mood on social media. The 29 year-old Israeli beauty uploaded a photo with her 40 year-old fiance on Instagram.

She’s young, rich and beautiful. One of Hollywood’s favorite girls, Jessica Alba, aged 34 is hosted on the front page of Forbes magazine, as the richest self-made woman in the US.

The speaker of ex-Soviet Turkmenistan's pliant parliament has proposed constitutional changes extending the presidential term limit and removing the maximum age for the presidency, state media reported May 29.

For four days (28th to 31st of May), Piraeus residents, and tourists will get to know Piraeus, the lesser-known sights, its streets and people.

Exhibitions, tours, concerts, theatrical plays, traditional dances, movies, cycling rides, sports, parties and many other events await visitors.

Greece said Friday that the deadline for reaching an accord to release much-needed bailout funds was the end of June, despite officials raising hopes of a deal being imminent as it flirts with the possibility of a default.

After police tried to remove protesting Croatian war veterans from St Marks's square in the heart of Zagreb, where the government headquarters is located, protesters hid inside a nearby church, where they spent the night.