Brussels / AFP The European Union and Cuba on Monday signed a deal to normalise ties that had been blocked for decades by human rights concerns under revolutionary icon Fidel Castro. Cuba was the only Latin American country not to have a “dialogue and cooperation” deal with the 28-nation EU covering issues such as trade, human rights and migration. But ...

  Rome / AFP New Italian premier-designate Paolo Gentiloni raced to put together a cabinet team on Monday as the market welcomed the apparent rapid resolution of the country’s political and banking crises. Gentiloni, 62, was asked by President Sergio Mattarella on Sunday to form a new centre-left government that will guide Italy to elections due by February 2018, following the ...

  Belgrade / AFP Eight Serbian men appeared on Monday before a Belgrade court over their alleged role in the Srebrenica massacre, Europe’s worst atrocity since World War II, in the first-ever such case to be handled by the country’s judiciary. The suspects’ defence attorneys cited procedural issues, demanding notably the replacement of judges, and opening of the trial was ...