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| Finland School Shooting Leaves Several Deaths |
When a gunman opened fire at a vocational school in Finland several people inside the teaching institute have been fatally shot. Kauhajoki School from Helsinki, Finland, was the victim of a mad gunman who started to fire in everybody he saw. The police said on Tuesday that many people were wounded and the gunman was disarmed.
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The European Commission is to follow the lead of the European Parliament and hold its first session of the autumn in Brussels, rather than Strasbourg, following a ceiling collapse in the parliament's French home, officials said Friday.
The first autumn meeting of the European Union's executive will take place as scheduled on September...
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New questions have arisen in the search for the cause of Wednesday's air crash in Madrid which killed at least 153 people, it emerged on Friday.
Contrary to the early assumption that the aircraft had been downed by an engine catching fire on take off, video footage released by the Spanish national airport company AENA on Friday showed...
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European factory orders dropped sharply in June, the European Statistics Office Eurostat said Friday, adding to signs of slowing economic growth.
Year-on-year, new industrial orders fell by 7.4 per cent in the 15-member eurozone in June. Analysts had forecast a 6.1-per-cent fall.
While industrial orders in 15-member eurozone...
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 153 people died after Madrid plane crashed. Investigators are now searching for the causes of the accident. The plane crashed and exploded shortly after it took off in Spain’s capital. Only 19 people remained alive from the crash and King Juan Carlos already met the relatives of the victims.Spanair flight JK 5022 had 172 people on board...
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The last two further bodies were recovered Thursday from the crash site of the Spanair plane at Madrid airport, rescue officials said, bringing the search action at the site to a close.
Benjamin Olivares, head of the airport fire department, said the victims were those of an infant baby and an adult.
The find did nothing to change...
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Poland wants "normal" relations with its eastern neighbour Russia, despite Moscow's anger over a planned US missile defence system to be located in the country, the Polish foreign minister said on Thursday.
Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski told Polish radio that "as a gesture" he had recommended that the Russians...
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Thursday Russia had no plans to "slam the door" on NATO amid a rift with the alliance this week over Russia's military occupation of Georgia.
"Russia, no less than NATO, relies on this mutual cooperation ... NATO is much more in need of Russia's support of its military actions...
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Two top supporters of US presidential hopeful John McCain on Thursday urged Poland to "quickly" ratify a deal to station part of a Pentagon anti-missile shield, and condemned Russian "belligerence" in the wake of its invasion of Georgia.
"We cannot allow ourselves to be bullied by the Russians out of ratifying...
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The European Parliament has been forced to move its first session of the autumn to Brussels following the collapse of part of the roof of its home in the French town of Strasbourg, officials said Thursday.
Parliament President Hans-Gert Poettering decided on the move on the basis of expert reports, a statement from the parliament...
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Three detainees at the US Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba have applied for political asylum in Switzerland, reports said Thursday.
The men are from Libya, Algeria and China, the Swiss federal office for migration confirmed. The Chinese man is a member of China's Uighur Muslim minority.
The spokesman for the migration office,...
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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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