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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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Croatian President Stjepan Mesic will appeal a verdict ordering him to pay 70,000 kuna (12,500 dollars) in damages to a French lawyer whom he "recommended" to visit a psychiatric clinic, his attorney said Thursday.
"Of course we will appeal," Mesic's lawyer, Cedo Prodanovic, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
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Germany's biggest newspaper group, Axel Springer, said Thursday it was launching a Chinese online edition of its car magazine Auto Bild.
The site, www.autobild.com.cn, is to carry blogs, reader forums, photo series and videos about new cars for the "the world's second biggest automotive market," the company said in...
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The European Parliament (EP) defied Chinese warnings Thursday and awarded its prestigious Sakharov Prize to Hu Jia, a Chinese civil-rights activist.
The decision was a rebuke to Beijing, which had said that honouring Hu Jia could "seriously damage" China's relations with the European Union.
Hu Jia was picked from a...
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The European Union was wrong to keep the assets of the People's Mujahedin of Iran (PMI) frozen despite the Iranian group being taken off a British list of terrorist organizations, the EU's court ruled on Thursday.
But the group will not yet have access to its funds, as a further decision to continue the asset freeze in July is still...
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Mikhail Gorbachev, 77-year-old last president of the Soviet Union, has become a great-grandfather, with his granddaughter Xenia giving birth to a baby girl, a German hospital said Wednesday.
The 3.91-kilogram child was born at Agatharied in Bavaria state. Agatharied said mother and child were both well. The former president heads his...
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The Estonian economy is set to remain in recession until 2010 according to a forecast published Wednesday by the Estonian central bank, Eesti Pank.
According to the base scenario of Eesti Pank's 2008 autumn forecast, Estonia's gross domestic product will decline by 1.8 per cent in 2008 and by 2.1 per cent in 2009.
The economy...
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Austrian incest suspect Josef Fritzl has said he was "born to rape," according to a report by a court-appointed psychiatrist who probed the mind of the man who had kept his his daughter locked in a dungeon for 24 years.
"I have found out that I possess a malicious streak," 73-year-old Fritzl told psychiatrist Heidi...
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Berlin is to lodge with the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial the most complete possible roll of names of Jewish residents of Germany from 1933 to 1945, a foundation said Wednesday.
Compiling the list was a major work of scholarship, with archivists combing more than 1,000 sources to compile the list of 600,000 names and record what...
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Movie stars', footballers' and other celebrities' penchant for choosing colourful names for their children may be a thing of the past in Italy following a ruling Wednesday by the country's top appeals court.
The Rome-based Cassation upheld another court's order preventing a couple from calling their son Venerdi (Friday), the ANSA...
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London (dpa) - British pharmaceuticals concern GlaxoSmithKline reported Wednesday that it managed to boost profits and sales in the third quarter despite the challenge posed by generic drugs.
GlaxoSmithKline said it earned 25.2 pence per share in the quarter, up from 23.7 pence in the corresponding period last year. Sales gained 7 per...
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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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