Athens/Nicosia  -  Greek and Turkish Cypriots will launch the groundbreaking work for new Cyprus reunification talks on April 18, the United Nations mission on the divided Mediterranean island said

Hamburg  - The German Greens agreed Wednesday to their first state coalition ever with Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU), according to a Greens official, Antje Moeller.

Rome  -  Italian prime minister-elect Silvio Berlusconi began talks Wednesday with his main allies to discuss the composition of his cabinet.

Madrid  -  Madrid regional Prime Minister Esperanza Aguirre, one of the leading politicians in Spain's conservative opposition, Wednesday joined the governing Socialists in hitting back at Italian

Rome  -  Rome's mayoral race is to be decided in a run-off, first-round voting results Wednesday showed as a swing to the right was registered in polls held in two of the country's regions in line

Beijing  -  French retailer Carrefour and US broadcaster CNN are both well-known in China but in the past month the two global names have been blackened by patriotic Chinese mounting campaigns agai