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Romanian military prosecutors investigating for the fourth time the bloodshed that occurred during the 1989 uprising that ousted communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu on Wednesday indicted a former television news anchor for crimes against humanity.

Greece will defend its principles "in any way it can… and will not cede an inch of territory," Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said from the southeastern Aegean island of Kastellorizo on Tuesday in an apparent dig at recent provocations from Turkey.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Tuesday flew to the southeastern Aegean to inaugurate two desalination plants on Kastellorizo in a public appearance that some analysts say is meant to coincide with the upcoming eight-year anniversary on April 23 of former premier George Papandreou's announcement from the same island of Greece's bailout by international creditors.

Romanian military prosecutors formally indicted former president Ion Iliescu on Tuesday for alleged crimes against humanity during the violent uprising that ousted the country's Communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu in December 1989.

Ex-President Ion Iliescu on Tuesday left the Attorney General's Office after about an hour and 30 minutes without making statements to the press. He had been summoned to be informed that he is a subject in criminal investigation of the December 1989 Revolution, standing accused of crimes against humanity.

Environmentalist Marina Silva and right wing politician Jair Bolsonaro would be leading candidates in Brazil's presidential election if jailed former President Luiz Incio Lula da Silva is unable to run, according to an opinion poll on April 15.

The European Commission (EC) has never interfered in the management of some individual cases (of corruption) of Romania and the questions included in the letter of October 2012, addressed to the Romanian Ministry of Justice, were meant to help prepare the technical mission of November 2012 without the EU executive requesting information on the cases substance, EC President Jean-Claude Juncker s

President Klaus Iohannis forwarded to the Justice Minister the request for prosecution in the case of the former head of state Ion Iliescu, former premier Petre Roman and in Gelu Voican Voiculescu's case, the Presidential Administration announced.

The European Court of Human Rights, ECHR decided on Thursday to look into two complaints brought by Simeon Sakskoburggotski and his family related to his attempts to obtain restitution of two properties formerly belonging to the Bulgarian crown.

Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva turned himself in to police on April 7, ending a day-long standoff to begin serving a 12-year prison sentence for corruption that derails his bid to return to power.