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Israel on Friday gave Hamas and other Palestinian militant factions in the Gaza Strip 48 hours to reduce ongoing rocket and mortar attacks from the salient or risk an Israeli military operation into the strip.
For the first time in 10 days, Israel opened its border crossings with the Gaza Strip Friday morning to allow in essential...
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Israeli police were on high alert in racially mixed Israeli cities Friday after two nights of the worst Arab-Jewish clashes in years in the northern port town of Acre.
Some 500 officers were deployed in Acre Friday to prevent a new outbreak of violence, Police Spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld said.
Police arrested 12 of the rioters, who...
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Crises in Somalia and the Middle East need to be resolved to prevent further extremism and terrorist attacks, Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga said Thursday on the 10th anniversary of deadly bomb attacks in East Africa.
Over 200 people died and more than 4,000 were injured in Kenyan capital Nairobi and Tanzanian capital Dar es...
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Iran's supreme leader said Wednesday that
world powers would not change their policies towards Iran even if
Tehran made concessions on its nuclear dispute with them.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called the view that Iranian concessions on its
nuclear programme would lead world powers to change their policy
towards Iran 'totally...
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Released prisoner Samir Kuntar accused Israel
late Thursday of fabricating the story of how he killed the
four-year-old daughter of an Israeli man in 1979. 'Israel has
fabricated the story about how I killed the child during the attack I
carried out in 1979,' Kuntar told the Hezbollah- run Al Manar
television. He said that he...
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Pakistani officials said their ambassador to Afghanistan,
who was kidnapped 97 days ago by Taliban militants, was released Friday night.
Tariq Azizuddin was abducted on February 11 while traveling in Pakistan’s
tribal area, Khyber. He was heading to the Pakistani Embassy in Kabul with no escort
vehicle, according to a statement of...
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 Richard Butler, a journalist who works for the US television
network CBS, was rescued by Iraqi forces. They found him in a house in Basra with a hood over
his head, said the Iraqi defence ministry. The journalist was held hostage for
more that two months.
“Thank you and I'm looking forward to seeing my family and
my friends at...
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 Pakistan’s
President Musharraf has sworn in his political enemy as Prime Minister on
Monday. The President administered the oath during a ceremony at his office in Islamabad, which was
broadcast live on television. As Yousaf Raza Gilani completed the oath, some
supporters chanted “Long Live Bhutto.”
In order...
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 Few surprises are expected as Iran holds today its parliamentary elections. A surprise would be any other election outcome than one that would help the country’s conservative faction keep its grip on power. The Middle Eastern country has approximately 40 million eligible voters and for 4,500 candidates who will “fight” for the 290 seats...
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 A deadly rocket strike carried out on Tuesday in a Pakistani town near the border with Afghanistan killed several people.The reports show that most of those killed in the blast were possibly seminarians or militants.The death toll of the rocket strike varies from one source to another. The BBC said eight people were killed by the...
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 Despite the fact that the British government firmly rejected the principle of negotiating with kidnappers, an Arabic TV channel aired on Wednesday a video illustrating a Briton held captive in Iraq since May 2007, who asked the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to release nine Iraqis for the freedom of five British hostages.The man...
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Pakistani authorities said that a suicide bomb attack has
killed Saturday at least 18 people and wounded at least 25 people at an
election rally in northwestern Pakistan,
the Associated Press reports.
North West Frontier province, bordering Afghanistan, is
a region where Islamic extremists operate and has been the scene of...
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 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called on the United Nations
nuclear watchdog to fulfil its responsibility and not be influenced by
world powers in the nuclear dispute, ISNA news agency reported.
"The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) should not be
influenced by pressures of world powers and fulfil its...
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 Even if Israeli and Palestinian leaders do not reach a peace deal by
the end of 2008, there could be "an agreement on what a Palestinian
state will look like," US President George W Bush told Israeli
television.
"I'm optimistic that we can have the outlines of a state defined,"
he told Channel 2 News in an...
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 US forces have captured a wanted leader of the al-Qaeda terrorist
network in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, the city's operations
command said on Sunday. As meanwhile, violence and raids were reported
elsewhere in Iraq.
Jasim Muhammad Ali, also known as Mullah Jasim, was arrested by
US-led coalition forces on Saturday, a...
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 Palestinian gunmen shot dead two Israeli settlers near the southern
West Bank city of Hebron Friday, before one of them was shot dead
himself and the second wounded in an ensuing fire- fight, Israel Radio
reported.
The two gunmen opened fire at a group of Israelis as they were
hiking in a valley near the city, police spokesman...
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 Saying Israel was engaged in a "war" with militant organizations in the
Gaza Strip, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert rejected Sunday feelers by Hamas
to discuss a ceasefire and said the Islamist group first had to
recognize the Jewish state.
He told ministers during Sunday's weekly cabinet session in
Jerusalem that Israel had...
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 Israel said Friday that it had sent a message to US Ambassador Richard
Jones in Tel Aviv, reassuring him that it will not build a new Jewish
neighbourhood in a northern area of occupied East Jerusalem.
Israel, meanwhile, denied that it was holding indirect contacts
with the radical Islamic Hamas movement over a truce in Gaza, as...
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 The delivery of nuclear fuel by Russia for Iran's Bushehr power plant
in southern Iran will not stop the country's uranium enrichment
process, Iranian Vice-President Gholam- Reza Aqazadeh told state
television Monday.
"The Russian nuclear fuel is only for Bushehr and we will continue
uranium enrichment in the Natanz plant...
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 US President George W Bush on Thursday condemned the assassination of a
Lebanese general and called on Syria to put an end to tactics aimed at
intimidating the Lebanese people.
The killing of Brigadier General Francois al-Hajj and his bodyguard
by a bomb in Beirut Wednesday came two days after parliament postponed
the presidential...
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 Lebanon's parliament speaker Nabih Berri went ahead as expected Tuesday
with postponing until Friday a parliament session to elect a successor
to pro-Syrian president Emile Lahoud.
"The session is postponed until Friday November 23," Berri said in
a written statement. He urged Lebanese not to listen to...
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Iran on Friday urged the United States to immediately release the
remaining Iranian nationals still held in Iraq, as nine freed Iranians
arrived in Tehran.
The US forces have arrested Iranian nationals in recent months,
including five staff of the Iranian consulate in January in Arbil, the
capital of the autonomous Kurdish region,...
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 According to official police statements, Hundreds of
opponents of President Pervez Musharraf, including venerable judges, human
rights activists and rival politicians, were taken into custody on Sunday,
signaling the start of what could be a long and concerted crackdown against
those who have challenged his authority in past...
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 According to police reports, a suicide attacker set off a
bomb at a checkpoint a quarter-mile from the military headquarters where
President Gen. Pervez Musharraf was staying Tuesday, killing seven people. The
blast will likely feed fears for the country's stability just as it prepares
for crucial parliamentary elections and faces a...
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 According to a statement released on Thursday by officials,
Islamist militants killed at least 21 people in what may have been a suicide
attack on an army convoy in northwest Pakistan,
where a Taliban-style movement has taken root.
The blast in the Swat valley set fire to a truck laden with
ammunition a day after the military sent...
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18 people were killed in Pakistan on Tuesday after a suicide
bomber blew himself up next to a truck carrying people. The explosion took the
lives of the people inside the vehicle and those of pedestrians and passers-by.
According to Habibur Rehman, District Police chief, bomber
had boarded a truck traveling to Dar Ismanail...
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 Three US
soldiers were killed yesterday when a roadside bomb planted by Shi'ite militias
in Iraq
blew up near their Humvee.
AP Television News aired a video of the bombing yesterday in
the predominantly Shiite Mashtal neighborhood of eastern Baghdad that showed
the twisted wreckage of the Humvee burning wildly as soldiers hosed...
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The German aid-worker kidnapped on Saturday was released early
today, according to German and Afghan officials. It was reported that she has
been released in a joint late night raid by Afghan intelligence services and
Kabul police.
The joint authorities discovered the house where the 31-year
woman was kept and surrounded it, 300...
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U.S. officials said they assassinated Haitham Sabah Shaker Mohammed al-Badri, the renowned al-Qaeda mastermind who planned the 2006 and 2007 attacks on the golden-domed al-Askari shrine in Samarra. The attacks destroyed its trademark golden dome and minarets.Haitham al-Badri was the leader of al-Qaeda in Salahuddin Province and was...
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 The political crisis in Pakistan deepens even more, after thousands of people marched against President Pervez Musharraf, who became the number one public enemy in the eyes of Pakistanis.All the turmoil started in March, when the country’s Chief of Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry was dismissed by Musharraf, who charged the judge for...
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 Iranian-American Middle East academic Haleh Esfandiari was charged Monday with seeking to topple the ruling Islamic establishment, state-run television reported. She was detained for months and subjected to interrogations by the Ministry of Intelligence before being incarcerated in prison, cut off from communications or visits by her...
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Afghan authorities have buried Taliban leader Mullah Dadullah, who has been killed over the weekend by U.S.-led forces. The execution is thought of as the biggest blow against the Taliban insurgents following the overthrow of their government in 2001."Even though he was a merciless person, we buried his body on the basis of Islamic...
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 A Mickey Mouse look-alike is featured in a new Hamas campaign broadcast on Palestinian television. Reportedly, the "Tomorrow's Pioneers" show featuring the black and white rodent was aired briefly on the al-Aqsa TV station, which is affiliated with Hamas, but the propaganda animation was pulled off upon the request of the...
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David Beckham gave a hint of his marketing skills and image powers on his first Italian weekend, partly upstaging the Serie A's other football stars when he was presented as AC Milan's new arrival.
His new side's 5-1 win over Udinese in the last game of 2008 and the massive media coverage of his presentation Sunday evening were the...
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Bayern Munich have lost their mythos of invincibility in German football after a stumbling start to the Bundesliga season, club president Franz Beckenbauer said.
Smaller teams are now losing their respect for the champions, who are only 11th in the table after two wins in seven matches, Beckenbauer wrote in his column for Bild...
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Three months after taking over Inter Milan, star coach Jose Mourinho seems to have achieved better results in media exposure than in the performance of the Italian champions.
Inter's only truly convincing game was a 2-0 win away to Panathinaikos in the Champions League opening game, while a 1-0 defeat to AC Milan at the weekend topped...
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Azerbaijan coach Berti Vogts says his team is on the right road despite being held to a goalless draw by Liechtenstein in a World Cup qualifying match on Wednesday.
Vogts told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa Thursday he wouldn't be put under any pressure despite the draw, which followed a 1-0 defeat in Wales on Saturday.
The German...
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An Azerbaijan football official on Monday said that national team coach Berti Vogts had been misquoted when he said that he would resign if there was too much pressure on him.
The general secretary of the Azerbaijan football association Elkhan Mammadov said that Vogts had given an interview to German media on Saturday after his side...
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Russia on Tuesday cut by two-thirds its gas deliveries to Europe via Ukraine, with European countries immediately feeling the effect of drastically falling volumes as the standoff worsened.
Russia's Tuesday gas supply reduction, the second since the beginning of 2009, would cause "problems in getting sufficient gas to Europe to...
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A Greek policeman was seriously wounded early Monday when unknown attackers fired shots and hurled a grenade at a police watch post in the ongoing violence since a teenage youth was killed by police in early December.
At Athens hospital, a spokesman said "the condition of the wounded (policeman) is extremely serious but...
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Ukraine has blocked transit shipment of Russian natural gas to Europe, escalating an acrimonious energy dispute dispute between the two countries and increasing the threat of a natural gas shortage in Europe, Ukrainian media reported Monday.
Executives from Ukrainian natural gas monopolist Naftogaz Ukrainy refused late Sunday evening...
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Moscow/Kiev - The head of Russian gas export monopoly Gazprom said Tuesday that technical preparations had begun to shut down gas flows to Ukraine, as pressure mounts over non-payments by Kiev one day before the New Year deadline.
Gazprom Chief executive Alexei Miller told state television news Vesti-24 that "the countdown"...
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Russian gas export monopoly Gazprom Monday warned European customers of a potential shortage in gas supplies, as Ukraine dug in its heels on a pricing dispute with the Kremlin.
"We cannot rule out that the present position of the Ukrainian party and possible steps it may resort to - linked to gas transit through Ukrainian...
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Germany may host the world athletics championships in 2009 but apart from the Berlin event the situation in the nation's sports is as bleak as the economic forecasts.
The former sports power lacks stars in major sports ranging from football to athletics and swimming. In addition, there is an almost frightening disappearance of events...
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A last-ditch effort by Ukraine to pay part of a massive debt to Russia may be insufficient to prevent a natural gas supply crisis affecting Europe, according to a Thursday announcement by the Russian energy giant Gazprom.
Ukraine's government late Monday evening transferred 800 million dollars to the Russian natural gas monopolist on...
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Protesters in Athens hung two giant banners from the ancient Acropolis on Wednesday with the words "resistance" in five different languages, calling for mass demonstrations across Europe after days of the worst riots in Greece in decades.
Dozens of protesters could be seen holding the banners over the ancient walls of the...
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Members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), meeting at an extraordinary conference in the Algerian city of Oran, agreed Wednesday to cut oil production by 2 million barrels per day, BFM television reported.
If the report is officially confirmed at the end of the conference, it would represent the largest...
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The Dutch government and opposition members have joined forces to boost the financial position of Dutch newspapers and investigative journalism.
The editions of Dutch newspapers have been on the decline for several years, particularly since the launch of the Internet.
Each day, a total of 5,463,692 newspaper copies are printed in...
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Belarusian President Aleksander Lukashenko on Tuesday warned citizens that effects from the world financial crisis would be felt in the former Soviet republic for at least two years.
"We need to survive 2009 and 2010, and I can tell, these two years will not be simple," the authoritarian leader said in remarks broadcast by...
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Days after the worst riots in decades, Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis said Tuesday he underestimated the magnitude of the problems plaguing his country just as students firebombed Athens' police headquarters and protesters clashed with police in the northern port city of Thessaloniki Tuesday.
"I underestimated the...
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Passengers at Budapest's Ferihegy International Airport were faced with the prospect of more queues and delays as a strike entered its seventh day on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, striking rail workers began their third day of nationwide industrial action in a dispute that has already brought Hungary's railways to a near...
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The following is a list of nominees for the Golden Globe Awards in the major categories.
BEST MOTION PICTURE, DRAMA The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Frost/Nixon The Reader Revolutionary Road Slumdog Millionaire
BEST MOTION PICTURE, MUSICAL OR COMEDY Burn After Reading Happy-Go-Lucky In Bruges Mamma Mia! Vicky Christina...
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Police in Belgium have arrested 14 suspect members of al-Qaeda accused of preparing a terrorist attack on its territory, Belgian media reported Thursday.
The arrests were the result of "dozens" of early morning raids carried out by the police, the Flemish VTM television channel reported.
Police sources said three of the...
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The head of the Anglican Church Wednesday described the situation in Zimbabwe as a "complete humanitarian outrage" resulting from "state aggression towards civil society."
Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, said in a statement in London that "outside pressure" on the regime of President Robert...
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Before turning off his ventilator with his teeth as he is dying from a lethal mix of sedatives, the almost completely paralysed assisted suicide patient is heard saying: "I'd like to continue. The thing is that I really can't."
Millions of prime-time television viewers in Britain were Wednesday able to witness the assisted...
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Civil unrest, which rocked Greece over the weekend after the shooting of a teenager by police, subsided early Monday, media reports said.
According to Greek television reports almost all of the 150 hooded youths who had sought shelter inside the Polytechnic University, which is off-limits to police under Greek law, had left the...
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Olympic television broadcasts from 2014 onwards could be aired by private networks in Europe instead of the state-run stations which covered the Games for the last 50 years, a German television executive said on Wednesday.
Dieter Gruschwitz, the head of sports at the ZDF state network, said that such a scenario was not out of the...
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Two Morrocan men suspected of links with al-Qaeda have been arrested in Italy for allegedly planning bomb attacks, including one against Milan's Duomo cathedral.
"The plot was uncovered well before those being investigated were able to procure explosives," Italian Interior Minister Roberto Maroni said commenting on...
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A plan to pay tribute to a Catholic saint in the Spanish parliament was cancelled Wednesday, while parliament president Jose Bono came under criticism for calling his Socialist party comrades "sons of a bitch" over the decision.
The parliamentary committee had earlier agreed to place a plaque in the parliament building in...
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A Roma couple were killed in their sleep when a hand grenade was thrown through the window of their house in southern Hungary, authorities said Wednesday.
A 37-year-old man and his 31-year-old wife died in the blast late Tuesday in the town of Pecs. Two of their three children were slightly injured.
Police were quick to dismiss...
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A cabinet minister ruled out a government bailout for the German auto industry on Monday as Chancellor Angela Merkel prepared to meet the management of Opel to discuss state aid.
The troubled carmaker has requested credit guarantees from Berlin to counter a financial squeeze, triggered by dwindling sales and problems with its parent...
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A wildcat strike by Alitalia employees in Italy forced, for the second straight day Wednesday, cancellations or delays to dozens of flights.
Television news reports showed hundreds of disgruntled passengers stranded at airports around the country, including Rome's Fiumicino hub.
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's government has...
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Omar bin Laden, son of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, on Thursday distanced himself from his father's violence on appealing against Spain's decision not to grant him political asylum.
Omar bin Laden was a "man of peace" who rejected his father's "activities," bin Laden, 28, and his British wife Zaina al-Sabah,...
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The four parties that will form the next Lithuanian coalition government launched talks in the capital, Vilnius, Tuesday aimed at drawing up a program for their four-year term.
Nine days after their first informal get-together on election night, the four leaders are believed to be formalising their alliance by means of two documents:...
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French Prime Minister Francois Fillon has threatened to nationalize any French bank receiving emergency government aid that does not extend loans to businesses, the online edition of the daily Le Figaro reported on Monday.
Interviewed for a television program to be broadcast late Monday, Fillon said, "If we feel that the banks...
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Patrons visiting one of the Netherlands' red- light districts may soon find themselves on camera.
One by one, authorities in cities across the country are stepping up their efforts to regulate, scrutinize and generally clean up the country's sex business.
This week the mayors of the cities of Alkmaar and Utrecht followed moves by...
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Several leading Italian clubs are interested in signing Bayern Munich's Bastian Schweinsteiger, but club manager Uli Hoeness said Thursday he was confident of keeping the midfielder at the German champions.
The 24-year-old Germany international's current contract expires at the end of the season and Hoeness said Inter Milan, AC Milan...
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Anti-globalization demonstrators invaded the Frankfurt Stock Exchange on Monday, chanting, waving banners and scattering leaflets inside Germany's principal financial marketplace.
"We are criticizing the dominance of financial markets," said Stephan Schilling, a member of the Attac Network coordinating circle, in Frankfurt...
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Ukrainians expressed optimism, but still faced a shaky economy after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said it will provide financial support to the hard-pressed country.
The IMF on Sunday simultaneously announced a 16.5-billion-dollar credit for Ukraine. Additionally, it said it plans to give Hungary, which is also facing...
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Legislators in the German state of Bavaria elected a new premier, Horst Seehofer, 59, on Monday after the party he leads, the Christian Social Union (CSU), lost its absolute majority at the polls.
He comfortably won the vote by a 104-71 margin, though four members of the new state coalition, comprising the CSU and the small...
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Lithuanians return to the polls for the second round of voting in their 2008 general election Sunday 26 October.
Two weeks ago, the first round of voting in the Baltic nation gave the opposition Homeland Union - the Christian Democrats - a slight lead with 19.72 per cent of the vote which they are predicted to extend in Sunday's vote...
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German police led by prosecutors searched the offices of a federally owned bank Wednesday in connection with a banking blunder last month as the financial crisis developed.
The KfW bank remitted 319 million euros to Lehman Brothers of New York on September 15, the day that the US investment bank failed.
The main office of KfW in...
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Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, who was convicted for the so-called Lockerbie disaster, is terminally ill with cancer and expected to die within "weeks or months," a Dutch documentary filmmaker told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa early Tuesday.
The former Libyan intelligence agent al-Megrahi, 56, was sentenced to life...
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Joerg Haider was one of Austria's most divisive political figures, but his memorial service on Saturday is set up like the funeral for a national hero.
Up to 30,000 people are set to attend the public mourning in Klagenfurt, the capital of Austria's southern province of Carinthia, where Haider was governor.
Before his death last...
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The Belgian Silence-Lotto cycling team intends cancelling its contract with Austrian rider Bernhard Kohl following his admission that he was guilty of doping during this year's Tour de France, the Austrian APA news agency reported Thursday.
Kohl, who until now rode for the Gerolsteiner team, was meant to join Silence-Lotto for the...
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Surprising table toppers SV Hamburg are looking towards defending their Bundesliga lead against challengers Schalke 04 on Sunday in a top of the table clash.
The team from northern Germany has a three point lead over surprise rookies Hoffenheim, who lead Stuttgart on goal difference.
Hamburg coach Martin Jol will be without fellow...
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An attempt to hijack a Turkish Airlines flight between Antalya and St Petersburg on Wednesday failed after passengers overpowered the unidentified man, NTV private television reported.
Transport Ministry sources told NTV that the man had claimed to be carrying a bomb and wanted the flight diverted.
The unidentified man was overcome...
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Squabbling raged among Poland's leaders on the eve of a European Union summit, but they agreed on two points: they will both attend and they are both in charge.
For Prime Minister Donald Tusk and President Lech Kaczynski, the spat over who sits at the table in Brussels on Wednesday was just the latest installment of a personal and...
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With nearly all votes counted in the first round of the Lithuanian general election, the opposition Homeland Union - Lithuanian Christian Democrats party has more seats than its rival parties.
Results released by the Central Election Commission (CEC) show the conservative-leaning Homeland Union will have at least 17 seats in the...
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Italian police arrested five men Monday - including the mayors of two towns - in raids targeting attempts by the Calabrian mafia, the 'Ngrangheta, to infiltrate local goverment.
The suspended mayor of the southern port city of Gioia Tauro, Giorgio Dal Torrione, his deputy, Rosario Schiavone, and Carlo Martelli, the mayor of another...
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An apparent bomb blast at a shopping centre in Bosnia's Muslim-Croat federation killed a security guard and injured several others Thursday, police said.
Police spokesman Sefir Barucija told local media that the guard found a bag with an explosive device in the food court of the sprawling mall in the central Bosnian town of...
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Top German literary critic Sigrid Loeffler called Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio "a fairly bizarre choice" for the Nobel literature prize, dismissing his work Thursday as "boring."
Speaking on MDR Info radio, she declared herself surprised and shocked at the award, and suggested Le Clezio may have won simply...
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