KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, whose plight in prison has soured relations between the country’s leadership and the West, was moved to a local hospital on Wednesday in a high-security police convoy. Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich has faced growing criticism over the conviction of Tymoshenko – and the authorities’ refusal to [...]

BELGRADE (Reuters) – Serbia’s reformist Democratic Party and the resurgent Socialists of late strongman Slobodan Milosevic agreed on Wednesday to renew a governing coalition that would keep the country edging towards the European Union. The alliance locks out the opposition Serbian Progressive Party, which narrowly won a parliamentary election on Sunday, but it will need [...]

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey was drowning in waves of arrests of military officers accused of coup conspiracies and called for the investigations, which his government has backed, to be wrapped up more quickly. Around 50 retired and serving officers, some very senior, have been held over the last month in [...]

LONDON (Reuters) – A successful euro zone requires a single government if it is to work properly, British Prime Minister David Cameron said in a newspaper interview on Wednesday. “There’s nowhere in the world that has a single currency without having more of a single government,” Cameron told Britain’s Daily Mail. “Making sense of the [...]

LONDON (Reuters) – A Saudi bombmaker believed behind several failed but ingenious attempted attacks on the West is the most likely creator of an improved “underwear bomb” discovered in a plot foiled by U.S. and allied authorities, security experts and officials say. Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri, who once provided the bomb for a suicide mission by [...]