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Europe is taking a hardline stance on global warming at the UN climate talks.

Italy is the most corrupt country in the eurozone, along with Greece, and has scored less than Cuba, Saudi Arabia and Ghana in the 2011 Corruption Perception Index, compiled by German-based NGO Transparency International.

During the discussions, the U.S. offered advice in resolving the crisis considering its experience in handling the 2008-09 economic crisis.

The United Nations Climate Change Conference commences in South Africa, where it is hoped a new collective global agreement on climate change will be made.

The Iranian Parliament, on Sunday, voted to expel the British ambassador to their country, as a form of retaliation against sanctions imposed by the U.S., the UK and Canada over Tehran's nuclear programme.

The United States is reluctant to sign off on a collective global climate change fund, undermining already tense negotiations ahead of official U.N. climate change conference to begin on Monday in Durban, South Africa.

Ales Bialiatski, who is the founder of Viasna, has been sentenced to four and a half years in prison and confiscation of property for alleged tax evasion.

Turkish warplanes have bombed Iraq's northern Kurdish region, wounding two civilians

William Hague is scheduled to meet Syrian opposition leaders in London next week to discuss the current situation in the Arab nation.

Tensions are mounting between Syria and Turkey, upping the stakes that could force Bashar al-Assad's departure.

Amnesty International has called on the world community to condemn "human rights violations in Azerbaijan" under the current regime.

Former EU Commissioner Mario Monti will begin consultations to form a new government of technocrats that could be sworn by Wednesday as Italy is expected to push through a bond sale on Monday of up to of 5-year bonds worth three billion euros.

European countries must take concerted action to deal with the current sovereign debt crisis, according to Jose Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission.

Millions of people have entered the UK without undergoing proper background checks through Dover, the country's biggest port, since 2007, it has been reported.

It’s the turn of professionals to find a solution to the debt crisis of two beleaguered nations, Greece and Italy, which shook the very existence of eurozone. Now the political leadership of these two nations is going to be in the hands of technocratic economists in the desperate bid to lead them out of the debt trap.

It is time Karl Marx's classic opening statement of the Communist Manifesto is reworded into something on the lines of: "A spectre is haunting Europe ­- the spectre of a double dip. All the powers of Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre."

Affable, reserved, highly-respected, Italian's probable new Prime Minister Mario Monti seems to represent the antidote to Silvio Berlusconi's discredited dominance of Italian politics, the "man who screwed an entire country".

Lucas Papademos, a respected economist and former European Central Bank vice-president has been named as Greece's new Prime Minister, after days of tense negotiations.

The German government is not pursuing the idea of a smaller and more integrated Europe, according to Steffen Seiber, German Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman.

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi who pledged to resign after the approval of urgent budget reforms, has said that he will not stand in new elections planned for February.

The UK jobs front continues to be grim, even as a Trades Union Congress (TUC) report, published on Tuesday, has shown that unemployment figures rose 97 percent in local council areas over the past year.

A break-up of the single currency would be economically better for the UK within five years, according to a leading research group.

Italian Interior Minister Roberto Maroni declared Sunday that Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right coalition "has no majority in Parliament" as the government faces a key confidence vote Tuesday on emergency economic measures.

After 48 hours of political deadlock, Greece will name its new prime minster by the end of the day after the outgoing premier, George Papandreou, and opposition leader, Antonis Samaras, reached a consensus with the country’s president Carolos Papoulias yesterday evening.

The decline of the Euro has now made its impact felt on the price of milk and the cup of morning tea. The prices of milk, in the European Union (EU), rose in September, led by higher payments to farmers by dairies in Germany, France and the UK, as the Euro's decline boosted exports.

World leaders are burning the midnight oil on Wednesday, in an effort to end the Eurozone crisis. They have collectively made it clear saving the Euro is more important than the outcome of the Greek referendum.

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou has decided to go ahead with his decision to conduct the referendum to decide on his country's future with European Union, brushing aside the market turmoil caused by his announcement Monday as "short lived."

The International Quartet for peace in the Middle East is set to hold separate talks with Israeli and Palestinians officials in a bid to bring back that both sides to the negotiating table, after a year of stalemate.

A Conservative MP has blasted the David Cameron’s decision to impose a three-line whip on today’s referendum vote saying that “British people should have the right to decide the future direction of the U.K.’s European relationship”.

Protests in Greece refused to die down and violence escalated Thursday, leading to the death of one protester, as Greek lawmakers narrowly passed a second package of austerity measures, which further weakened the country's ruling Socialist party.