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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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The head of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC), Patriarch Pavle, has resigned owing to poor health, the SPC said on its website Friday.
The Holy Synod, the SPC government, said Pavle requested to be relieved when the church assembly takes place on November 11.
Pavle, 94, has not left his room in the Belgrade military hospital since...
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Germany said Friday it would oppose European Union plans for full-body scanners to be used in airports.
The devices are accused of carrying out virtual strip searches because they construct an image of each traveller's body without clothing.
"We do not want our federal policemen to be considered voyeurs," said German...
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Italian author Roberto Saviano, who has been threatened for his writings on the mafia, has been invited to give a lecture at the Swedish Academy, a spokesman for the body that selects the Nobel literature prize said Friday.
The academy decided on the invitation at its weekly meeting on Thursday, Odd Zschiedrich, administrative...
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German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier is to fly to Pakistan on Monday at the start of a four-day diplomatic tour also taking in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, aides said Friday in Berlin.
The onslaught of terrorist attacks and the growing financial crisis in Pakistan will be topics when he meets with Pakistan's...
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Oil ministers from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) decided Friday in Vienna to cut their total production by 1.5 million barrels per day, in reaction to falling prices and slowing demand.
"There is an oversupply, and the stocks are very high," said OPEC President and Algerian Energy Minsiter...
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Even as it hopes for an invitation to join the European Union, Croatia on Friday reeled in the wake of another high- profile murder and fears that organized crime has overpowered the state.
Croatia's top security body met in an urgent session after a bomb killed journalist, editor and publisher Ivo Pukanic and the marketing director...
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Stocks on the Amsterdam exchange dropped dramatically Friday. By noon local time (1000 GMT) the main AEX index stood at 234 points, down 9.25 per cent on the day.
Shares of bank and insurance company ING Group, which on Sunday received 10 billion euros (12.87 billion euros) in government aid in exchange for securities, dropped the...
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Ukraine's government on Friday shut down the country's largest stock market in another attempt to halt share-price freefall.
Managers of Ukraine's largest PFTS stock exchange froze all transactions less than two hours after opening.
Share values had fallen between 10 and 19 per cent over Friday morning in heavy trading.
Since...
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Oil ministers from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) decided Friday in Vienna to cut their total production by 1.5 million barrels per day, in reaction to falling prices and slowing demand.
"There is an oversupply, and the stocks are very high," said OPEC President and Algerian Energy Minister...
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The British economy has shrunk for the first time in 16 years, the Office for National Statistics said Friday, sending shares and the pound into a tailspin.
The release of the figures showing the economy in the European Union's second biggest economy shrinking 0.5 per cent in the three months to the end of September triggered a major...
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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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