"I heard screams. I heard people begging for their lives and I heard shots. He just blew them away. I was certain I was going to die." Erik Kursetgjerde, an 18-year-old Labour
* Italy will stick to savings programme The euro zone's strategy for tackling Greece's debt crisis comes at a price and should remain an isolated case, ECB Executive Board member Lorenzo Bini
France will not need to introduce austerity measures in response to increased debt exposure from the euro zone's new rescue plan for Greece, its finance minister said on Saturday. Francois Baroin said
The energy crisis will be with us for some time to come, with the island’s main power station that was destroyed in an arms blast two weeks ago only expected to resume
The Cyprus army has a new chief, Lieutenant General Stylianos Nasis, who was sworn in on Saturday, less than two weeks after his predecessor resigned over a deadly arms blast that killed
Cyprus's government and opposition parties agreed a package of budget austerity on Friday and more is in store after a massive munitions blast destroyed the island's largest power station. Already under pressure
The EU will do its utmost to help Cyprus through the difficult period it is facing, following a blast at the naval base “Evangelos Florakis”, near Limassol, and the subsequent destruction of
Euro zone countries have agreed to keep funding Ireland beyond 2013 if it is not able to tap debt markets, Finance Minister Michael Noonan said on Friday, signalling for the first time
Fitch declared Greece would be in temporary default as the result of a second bailout, which Athens said had bought it breathing space. But the agency pledged to give Greece a higher,
The junior partner in Cyprus's two-party coalition on Thursday urged sweeping changes and the formation of a "non-partisan" administration, a sign of growing dissent with the government after a deadly munitions blast.
