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Reward posted for gingerbread house vandals
Oslo - A reward was offered Monday after hundreds of gingerbread houses were destroyed over the weekend in the Norwegian west coast city of Bergen. Local businesses offered 100,000 kroner (17,700 dollars) for information about the assailants. A polic...
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Police block march by banned Hungarian group
Budapest - Police in Budapest on Sunday night blocked members of the right-wing organization the Hungarian Guard from marching in a commemoration ceremony. About 500 Guard members were surrounded by police before they could embark on a march in honou...
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Romanians head to polls in presidential election
Bucharest - Voters in recession-racked Romania went to the polls Sunday to elect a new president. Conservative incumbent Traian Basescu is seeking a new term. His main rivals are Social Democrat Mircea Geoana and Crin Antonescu, chairman of the Natio...
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German Left leader doing well after cancer operation
Berlin - The co-leader of Germany's Left Party, Oskar Lafontaine, was doing well Saturday following an operation for prostate cancer, a party spokesman said. The procedure went successfully. In the circumstances, he's doing well, spokesman Hendrik ...
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2009-11-21 ] Category : [
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Afghan Official: German troops in Kunduz are battle-shy
Berlin - German troops are too slow into battle to effectively provide security in northern Afghanistan, the governor of Kunduz province told news magazine Der Spiegel on Saturday. Mohammed Omar said that in Kunduz, where Germany has up to 4,500 sold...
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2009-11-21 ] Category : [
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Boat with 200 African refugees arrives in Italy
Rome - A boat with around 200 refugees from Africa arrived at the Italian Mediterranean island of Sicily overnight, Coast Guard officals said Saturday. Coast Guard vessels intercepted the boat around midnight and escorted it to the port of Pozzallo. ...
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