Swiss voters are going to polls to vote on a record nine different policy initiatives more »
Voters in Slovakia are casting ballots in a referendum on whether to join the European Union more »
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev has pardoned Mukhtar Abliyazov, a leader of the opposition Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan (DVK) movement and former energy, industry, and trade minister more »
Lithuanians give "Yes" to EU entry in poll more »
Lithuania is voting to join EU more »
Freedom House, a U.S.-based organization whose stated aim is to support global democracy, released its "Freedom of the Press 2003" report on 30 April more »
Up to a million people are expected to gather in Madrid's Colon Plaza Sunday for an open-air mass in which Pope John Paul will canonize five new Roman Catholic saints more »
Berlin police expressed disappointment that their attempts to prevent May Day violence, which has plagued the German capital every year for 15 years, had once again failed more »
The Moscow City Duma on Wednesday tentatively approved a draft bill introducing administrative responsibility for residents, whose children stay in the city streets and public places not attended by their parents or persons substituting them. more »
A spokeswoman from the Czech border and foreign police said on 28 April that some 100 Chechen refugees requested asylum on 26 April more »