By Voice Of America | On May 16, 2006 | In Europe | Rated 
The Spanish football club Sevilla has won its first European football title by beating Middlesbrough of England, 4-0, in the UEFA Cup final in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
By Voice Of America | On May 16, 2006 | In Europe | Rated
The British government has confirmed it will fight to overturn a judge's ruling that a group of Afghan hijackers be granted residency rights.
By Voice Of America | On May 16, 2006 | In Europe | Rated
British authorities have cleared intelligence agencies of mishandling surveillance before the London bombings last July that killed 52 public transport passengers and four suicide bombers.
By Voice Of America | On May 16, 2006 | In Europe | Rated
Several representatives of the European Union of Jewish Students recently returned from Rwanda, the central African nation where in 1994 an estimated 800,000 people were slaughtered in the space of 100 days. Most of the dead were Tutsis, and most of the perpetrators of the genocide in Rwanda were Hutus. Despite the pledge of “Never Again,” following the Nazi slaughter of 6 million Jews in Europe during World War II, the world watched – and once again failed to act – as the Rwandan genocide unfolded.
By Voice Of America | On May 16, 2006 | In Europe | Rated
German Chancellor Angela Merkel says Berlin will use its presidency of the European Union next year to revive the European constitution.
By Voice Of America | On May 16, 2006 | In Europe | Rated
Hong Kong's Roman Catholic cardinal has rejected China's suggestion that he try to settle a dispute with the Vatican by endorsing Beijing's position on the appointment of bishops.
By Voice Of America | On May 16, 2006 | In Europe | Rated
The United States has defended its detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, after Britain's attorney general called for its closure.
By Voice Of America | On May 16, 2006 | In Europe | Rated
Italy's government has forcefully denied Thursday any role in an alleged CIA-led abduction of an Egyptian imam. Italian news reports this week said a paramilitary officer confessed that he took part in the alleged operation.
By Voice Of America | On May 16, 2006 | In Europe | Rated
French researchers at the Sanofi Pasteur Institute say they have developed a bird flu vaccine that, so far, appears to be safe and effective in humans. But observers caution it's too soon to say whether the experimental drug would work in a flu pandemic.
By Voice Of America | On May 16, 2006 | In Europe | Rated
Turkey has pulled out of a NATO military exercise in Canada and is considering sanctions against France for supporting Armenians who want the mass slaughter of their kin by Ottoman-Turk forces during and after World War I recognized as genocide.
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