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The extent of support in Britain for the far-right British National Party (BNP) was revealed Wednesday with the publication of the personal details of more than 12,000 members and supporters on an internet site.
The list, published on the website Wikileak, gave the names, addresses, and in some cases the professions, of members who include serving and former... |
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Former Germany international Dieter Eilts was Friday named as coach of Hansa Rostock, who are struggling in the second division following relegation last season.
The appointment comes just two weeks after Eilts was dismissed as coach of Germany's under-21 side.
Eilts replaces the dismissed Frank Pagelsdorf on a contract until the...
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The leader of the most vocal Hungarian extreme right party denied on Friday that his organisation had anything to do with a grenade attack that killed a Roma couple in southern Hungary on Tuesday.
Gabor Vona, speaking in front of Budapest's police headquarters, said that a campaign was being waged by politicians and the press to link...
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Czech coal company New World Resources NV (NWR) said Thursday its annual net profit rose 6 per cent in the third quarter of 2008, a result that was below market expectations.
NWR's third-quarter net income grew to 70.3 million euros (88 million dollars) this year from 66.3 million euros in 2007, according to the unaudited...
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Gomorra, is on its way to the Oscars as Italy's official candidate, but counterfeit DVD copies have already hit the streets of Naples - a market controlled by the local mafia whose dealings the film denounces.
"Why the surprise?" Naples anti-mafia, prosecutor Fausto Zuccarelli was quoted as saying by the daily, La Stampa,...
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The French government will establish an investment fund of 20 billion euros (25 billion dollars) to support French companies and protect them from foreign takeovers, President Nicolas Sarkozy announced on Thursday.
Speaking to workers in the central French city of Saint-Julien de Chedon, Sarkozy said the fund is to be managed by the...
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The chief executive of the European Union's anti- fraud watchdog OLAF warned Bulgaria Thursday that it must begin convicting corrupt officials, or risk losing the battle against organized crime.
OLAF director Franz-Hermann Bruener met Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev, Deputy Premier in Charge of EU Funds Management Meglena Kuneva and...
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Iceland that has been severely battered by the global credit crunch Thursday welcomed emergency loans approved by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Nordic neighbours.
Nordic neighbours of the cash-strapped North Atlantic nation earlier Thursday said they have approved a 2.5-billion-dollar loan, supplementing a similar IMF...
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Stefan Petzner, successor to the late Austrian rightist leader Joerg Haider, said Thursday in Klagenfurt he would give up his post to work on upcoming elections, but media said his emotional mourning of Haider had become a liability to his party.
One day after Joerg Haider died in a car accident on November 11, 27-year-old Petzner was...
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Spain's opposition Thursday expressed concern over the possibility of the oil and gas company Repsol YPF coming partly under Russian control.
Companies from outside the European Union should not get involved with strategic sectors in Spain, Cristobal Montoro of the conservative People's Party (PP) said amid reports that the Russian...
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German judge Christof Fluegge, 61, was sworn in as a permanent judge Thursday afternoon at the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) located in The Hague.
He replaces Wolfgang Schomburg who resigned from the ICTY on November 18.
Berlin-born Fluegge is an expert in criminal law for the Council of Europe and...
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Today is Thursday, June 5
the 157th day of 2008 with 209 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars and...
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 General Petraeus Set for Central Command
It appears that U. S. President George W. Bush’s favorite
general has been handed the task of winning the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
as well as confronting the...
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 A culinary journey through Crete
Almost as soon as you set foot on the southern Mediterranean island of Crete the poignant smell of oregano, wild flowers and wild teas tickles your senses while the...
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