German foreign minister urges Iran to show full transparency regarding its nuclear program
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Turkey’s Kurds: a peace role for rebel chief? The 2010 Nobel Peace Prize citation
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Chinese dissident hot bet for Nobel Peace Prize Kyrgyzstan hopeful elections will bring some stability after months of violence
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Russian military successfully tests new missile Glamorous former Ukraine prime minister protests new government dress code
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National Archives puts Nazi papers on public view Glamourous Ukraine’s ex PM protests new government dress code
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Outrage in Italy as ex-Nazi officer free to shop Nazi praise sparks Swiss rethink of legendary architect Le Corbusier, UBS drops ad drive
Nazi praise sparks Swiss rethink of Le Corbusier Dutch court rejects exiled separatists’ demand to have Indonesian president arrested
Bid to have Indonesian president arrested fails Yemen official says rocket hits near British embassy car, wounding diplomat and 3 bystanders
Yemen: Rocket attack targets British embassy car Yemen official says mortar round targets British diplomatic motorcade, wounding 3 bystanders
Yemen: Mortar round lands near British motorcade Albania mourns death of British comic hero Normal Wisdom, unlikely star during Communism
Albania mourns death of British comic hero Jews join Vatican in condemning Berlusconi’s remark about Jews, money and the Holocaust
Italian PM under fire again, for Holocaust remark Japan says argument over maritime clash with China over; dispute over islands remains
Japan says maritime spat with China over BRUSSELS — Japan declared an end Tuesday to a dispute with China over a high-seas collision last month and the two countries agreed to resume exchanges and projects that had been stopped because of the incident. Sweden’s prime minister forms minority government after unsuccessful election
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Chinese, Japanese leaders meet in Europe amid spat Israeli Supreme Court upholds deportation order on pro-Palestinian Nobel laureate Maguire
Court upholds deportation of Nobel laureate State Department official: US paving way to take in exiled Cuban political prisoners
US working to accept exiled Cuban prisoners Israeli Supreme Court upholds deportation order on Nobel laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire
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5 Germans said killed in Pakistan missile strike Israel Supreme Court justice rebukes Irish Nobel laureate for calling Israel ‘apartheid’ state
Israeli Supreme Court rebukes Irish Nobel laureate Former mayor of Moscow says he will form his own political movement
Ex-mayor of Moscow to form political movement Spanish PM suffers setback in local election as hand-picked candidate loses
Local election setback for Spain PM MADRID — Spain’s beleaguered prime minister suffered an embarrassing setback in a local election race Sunday, and a poll showed his party trailing ever further behind the opposition conservatives at the national level. Barred from entering Israel, detained Nobel laureate turns to country’s Supreme Court for help
Irish Nobel laureate challenges Israeli detention Turkish ship, scene of violence in flotilla raid, is setting for anti-Israel movie
Flotilla ship is setting for anti-Israel movie Syria says any indirect peace talks with Israel must be mediated by Turkey
Syria wants Turkey to mediate talks with Israel 9 years on, despite the record, conspiracy theories 9/11 rife in Muslim world
9/11 conspiracy theories rife in Muslim world Nobel experts predict low-key peace prize after Obama stunner
Nobel experts predict low-key prize after Obama Police and protesters clash in Amsterdam after tolerant policy toward squatting is ended
Violent protests after Dutch outlaw squatting Georgy Arbatov, adviser to Soviet presidents from Brezhnev to Gorbachev, dies at 84
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Report: Arbatov, Soviet foreign policy guru, dies Georgian parliament backs power shift to prime minister, critics say move benefits Saakashvili
Georgian lawmakers shift powers to prime minister Georgia parliament tentatively OKs shifting power to PM, critics say move benefits Saakashvili
Georgian parliament backs shifting power to PM Police detain anti-gay protesters at Russia’s first-ever sanctioned gay rights rally
Police detain anti-gay protesters in Moscow Dutch tradition of “squatting” in empty homes now illegal, ending another pillar of tolerance
Hands off my house: Dutch outlaw squatting Ukraine shifts powers from parliament to president, move benefits new pro-Russian leader
Ukraine’s pro-Russian president gets new powers Former Pakistani leader Pervez Musharraf says in London only military can save Pakistan
Ex-general Musharraf to launch new political party UN rights office tones down Congo ‘genocide’ report following protests by Rwanda, Uganda
UN tones down Congo ‘genocide’ report GENEVA — The United Nations has toned down a report detailing hundreds of gruesome attacks against civilians in Congo over a 10-year period but left intact the suggestion that Rwanda’s army may have committed genocide there in the 1990s. Police break up protest against German rail project with water cannons, pepper spray
German police hit protesters with water cannons |
