Tag: europe
group name: news
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December 22, 2009 07:02 AM EST --
MADRID, Spain (AP) — The top prize of Spain's Christmas lottery — billed as among the world's richest, went Tuesday to holders of tickets bearing the number 78294.
The number appears on . . .
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December 22, 2009 12:03 PM EST --
PARIS (AP) — A French parliamentarian said Tuesday he would file legislation to bar Muslim women from wearing veils that hide their faces in public.
President Nicolas Sarkozy has said that burqa-like . . .
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December 22, 2009 05:02 PM EST --
BRUSSELS (AP) — The flight plan for an aircraft seized in Thailand with a load of illicit North Korean arms and ammunition shows that the mysterious plane was headed to Iran, a new report from arms . . .
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December 22, 2009 06:04 PM EST --
LONDON (AP) — A cold alley in central London is a far cry from a palace — but it was the spot Prince William chose to sleep to highlight the plight of homeless British teenagers.
He spent . . .
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December 22, 2009 06:04 PM EST --
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's Mission Control says a Russian spacecraft carrying an American, a Russian and an austronaut from Japan has docked successfully at the International Space Station.
Mission . . .
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December 22, 2009 06:02 AM EST --
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Teenage Dutch sailor Laura Dekker faced the possibility of being removed from her father's custody Tuesday as she returned to the Netherlands after disappearing from . . .
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December 22, 2009 08:02 AM EST --
LONDON (AP) — Hundreds of people have celebrated the winter solstice at Stonehenge, braving snowy travel conditions and a morning fog.
About 700 people — including pagans and druids — . . .
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December 22, 2009 09:01 AM EST --
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Three men who confessed to the brazen theft of the infamous "Arbeit Macht Frei" ("Work Sets You Free") sign from the former Nazi death camp at Auschwitz on Tuesday re-enacted . . .
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December 22, 2009 01:01 PM EST --
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Just four months ago Laura Dekker was a carefree 13-year-old with an extraordinary dream — to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world. On Tuesday, . . .
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December 22, 2009 07:02 AM EST --
MUNICH (AP) — A witness at the war crimes trial of former U.S. resident John Demjanjuk is describing his deportation to the Nazis' Sobibor death camp in 1943.
Jules Schelvis, 88, is one of dozens . . .
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December 22, 2009 10:02 AM EST --
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Braving the Balkan chill, a few dozen people who participated 20 years ago in Romania's overthrow of communism huddled Tuesday around a commemorative monument to recall . . .
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December 22, 2009 07:02 PM EST --
MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian spacecraft carrying an American, a Russian and a Japanese austronaut docked successfully at the International Space Station on Wednesday, officials said.
Russia's Mission . . .
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December 22, 2009 06:01 AM EST --
PARIS (AP) — Eurostar resumed its high-speed rail service linking Britain, France and Belgium on Tuesday after a three-day suspension that stranded tens of thousands of holiday travelers and left . . .
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December 22, 2009 03:01 PM EST --
LONDON (AP) — For a priest in northern England, the commandment that dictates "thou shalt not steal" isn't exactly written in stone.
The Rev. Tim Jones caused an uproar by telling his congregation . . .
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December 22, 2009 12:03 PM EST --
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Bosnia's constitution discriminates against Jews and Roma because it does not allow them to run for parliament or president, the European Court of Human Rights . . .
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December 21, 2009 07:01 AM EST --
GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. reported Monday that the Ugandan-based Lord's Resistance Army killed, mutilated and raped villagers in Sudan and Congo in 2008 and 2009 in what may have been crimes against . . .
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December 21, 2009 08:01 AM EST --
MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian Communist Party called for a moratorium on criticizing Josef Stalin on Monday to allow the country to celebrate the Soviet dictator's 130th birthday in peace.
Nationwide, . . .
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December 21, 2009 11:01 AM EST --
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Authorities tried to piece together Monday how 14-year-old Dutch sailor Laura Dekker managed to slip out of the Netherlands and fly to the Caribbean, and whether anybody . . .
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December 21, 2009 12:00 PM EST --
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Her dream of becoming the youngest person to sail solo around the world shattered and under scrutiny over her quest, Dutch teenager Laura Dekker ran away from home . . .
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December 21, 2009 01:02 PM EST --
PARIS (AP) — A French news report says U.N. investigators believe Guinea's September massacre of protesters qualifies as a crime against humanity.
Le Monde reported Monday that investigators want . . .
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