Germany welcomes talks to end Lebanon crisis
Berlin - Germany on Friday welcomed the announcement of talks between Lebanon's rival leaders designed to end the country's political crisis and elect a president. Deputy government spokesman Thomas Steg called the talks in the Gulf state of Qatar a ...
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Last members of doomsday cult emerge from cave
Moscow - The nine remaining members of an extreme Orthodox cult surfaced Friday from a cave where they barricaded themselves to await the apocalypse six months ago. The other 35 cult members including four children left the underground bunker two mon...
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Two pre-adolescent boys charged with raping 10-year-old girl
Paris - A court in Versailles, near Paris, has charged an 11-year-old boy and his 12-year-old friend with raping the older boy's 10-year-old sister, filming the scene on a cell phone and showing it to friends, the website of the weekly Le Point repor...
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Police search for ETA car bomb factory in France - reports
Madrid - Spanish and French police are searching for a car bomb factory belonging to the militant Basque separatist group ETA in southern France, Spanish press reports said Friday, two days after a car bombing killed a police officer in Spain's nor...
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Irish government gets boost in opinion poll
Dublin - The Irish government received a boost in an opinion poll published Friday that showed voter satisfaction with its performance rising 13 points from the last poll in January to 48 per cent. Personal support for the new prime minister, Brian C...
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Russia says it apprehends Georgian spy
Moscow - Russia's Federal secret service says it has caught a Georgian spy who was working with rebel groups in the Russian Caucasus, news agencies reported Friday. A agent of Georgian secret services, a Russian citizen born in Georgia, has been app...
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Strikes close five airports in Norway, passengers stranded
Oslo - An estimated 17,000 airline passengers were stranded Friday due to labour action by employees of Norwegian civil aviation authority Avinor. Among the five airports closed over the wage strike were Bergen, Molde and Kristiansund. Strike action ...
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