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Basque separatists ETA announce cease-fire
(AP)
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:01:02 GMT
 AP - The armed Basque separatist group ETA, under pressure from political allies to renounce violence and decapitated repeatedly by the arrests of its leaders, announced another cease-fire Sunday, suggesting it might turn to a political process in its quest for an independent homeland.
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(AP)
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:06:17 GMT
AP - Basque government official says ETA ceasefire announcement is 'absolutely insufficient'
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Accident at German flight show kills 1
(AP)
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:03:58 GMT
AP - A pilot of a small propeller-driven plane lost control of his aircraft while taking off at a flight show in southern Germany and crashed into a group of spectators Sunday, leaving one person dead and up to 20 injured, police said.
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England leave Pakistan in a spin
(AFP)
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:03:13 GMT
 AFP - Pakistan got back to playing cricket on their scandal-hit tour of Britain as they were held to 126 for four in the first Twenty20 international against world champions England on Sunday.
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Sarkozy pensions plan faces angry French street
(AFP)
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:01:34 GMT
 AFP - President Nicolas Sarkozy faces protests this week against pension reform plans as he limps into the last two years of his first term weakened by scandal and disastrous opinion poll ratings.
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ETA declares ceasefire in Basque independence battle
(AFP)
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 15:57:37 GMT
 AFP - Basque separatist fighters ETA declared a ceasefire Sunday in their flagging 42-year campaign of bombing and shooting for a homeland independent of Spain.
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Get ready for break-up of Belgium: top minister
(AFP)
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 15:45:24 GMT
 AFP - A top Belgian politician warned the country's citizens on Sunday to "get ready for the break-up of Belgium," as King Albert II seeks to relaunch knife-edge coalition talks.
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Suicide bomber kills three in southern Russia
(Reuters)
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 15:31:44 GMT
 Reuters - At least three people were killed and 33 wounded on Sunday when a suicide bomber rammed a car packed with explosives into a military camp in Russia's southern region of Dagestan, the Defense Ministry said.
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Why 'Islamophobia' is less thinly veiled in Europe
(The Christian Science Monitor)
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 15:10:00 GMT
The Christian Science Monitor - Rooful Ali is an accountant who commutes, "suited and booted," to his corporate office in London from Northamptonshire, England, where he grew up in a Bangladeshi family. His avocation is photography. But he also finds time to direct the first Europe-wide association of Muslim professionals.
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Blair warns over deep-rooted radical Islam
(AFP)
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 15:03:23 GMT
 AFP - Former prime minister Tony Blair warned on Sunday that the roots of radical Islam were far deeper than we think and said Al-Qaeda would have killed 300,000 on September 11, 2001 if they could.
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2 Danes fail 1st try to launch home-built rocket
(AP)
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 14:27:20 GMT
AP - Two Danish space enthusiasts have failed in their first attempt to send up a privately built rocket into space.
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Vatican: stoning in Iran adultery case 'brutal'
(AP)
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 14:08:28 GMT
AP - The Vatican raised the possibility Sunday of using behind-the-scenes diplomacy to try to save the life of an Iranian widow sentenced to be stoned for adultery.
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Ex-UK military chief says Blair underfunded army
(AP)
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 13:05:34 GMT
AP - The former head of the British Army has accused former prime ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown of forcing the military to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan without adequate funding.
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Relics of Russian saint, icons stolen
(AP)
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 11:51:54 GMT
AP - A Russian news agency is reporting that three ancient icons, one of which contained relics of Russia's most venerated saint, have been stolen.
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2 French hostages in Afghanistan 'in good health'
(AP)
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 10:42:23 GMT
AP - President Nicolas Sarkozy's chief of staff says two French journalists held hostage in Afghanistan are "in good health" and that negotiations toward their release will resume.
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3 killed in suicide attack on Russian base
(AP)
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 10:39:59 GMT
 AP - A suicide car-bomber killed three soldiers and wounded 32 others in an attack on a military base in Russia's violence-plagued republic of Dagestan on Sunday, officials said.
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French bid to ban veils worries allies, tourists
(AP)
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 08:38:51 GMT
 AP - Protests in Pakistan, al-Qaida warnings, skittish Muslim tourists: France's plan to do away with burqa-style veils is already reverberating far beyond its borders.
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Shoes, eggs hurled at ex-Brit PM Blair in Dublin
(AP)
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 03:43:43 GMT
 AP - Protesters hurled shoes and eggs Saturday at Tony Blair who held the first public signing of his memoir amid high security in Ireland's capital. Hundreds more people lined up to have their books autographed — evidence that the divisions left by Blair's decade as British leader have yet to heal.
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Thousands protest French crackdown on Gypsies
(AP)
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 19:44:33 GMT
AP - Thousands of people marched in Paris and around France on Saturday to protest expulsions of Gypsies and other new security measures adopted by President Nicolas Sarkozy's government.
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6 million in UK told they've paid wrong income tax
(AP)
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 13:10:15 GMT
AP - British tax collectors say a new computer system has revealed that almost 6 million people have paid the wrong amount of income tax, and 1.4 million will be told to repay an average of 1,500 pounds ($2,300) each.
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