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Defendant Daniel Schneider is seen in a courtroom in Duesseldorf, western Germany on Thursday March 4,2010.
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DUESSELDORF Germany, March 4, 2010 (Reuters) - Four Islamist militants who admitted planning "a monstrous bloodbath" with foiled car bomb attacks on U.S.
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Pensioners demonstrate outside the Athens' municipality building and in front of the statue of the ancient statesman Pericles of Athens' Golden Age, during a rally in central Athens, Greece, on Wednesday, March 3, 2010. Greece has announced a new austerity plan worth euros4.8 billion ($6.5 billion) in savings to deal with the country's unprecedented financial crisis.
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GREECE, March 4, 2010 (WNN) - When citizens of Greece rose up and marched in the streets with signs reading "People And Their Needs Above Markets!", it was mindful of Greece's Golden Age of democracy started by Solon and instituted by Cleisthenes and Pericles.
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A former member of the Bosnian wartime presidency, Ejup Ganic was arrested at London's Heathrow Airport Monday March 1, 2010
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GREAT BRITIAN, March 4, 20010 -The family of Ejup Ganic, the former Bosnian vice-president, have flown to London after he was arrested in the British
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Police clash with protesters in Athens on Wednesday Feb. 24, 2010.
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GREECE - Greek police have fired tear gas at a group of protesters at an anti-government march in Athens after they attempted to storm a university building.
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Rufi Etxeberria, one a top member of the outlawed Basque party Batasuna, leaves the police station in Sebastian, northern Spain, Wednesday.
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SPAIN - The political wing of Eta yesterday announced plans for the terrorist organisation to lay down its arms and begin peace talks.
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Bosnian policeman looks on at a check point near the Bosnian village of Gornja Maoca, 150 kms north of Sarajevo, on Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010.
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Bosnian police have launched a massive operation against a conservative Muslim community, to prevent what they called attempts to destabilise the country.
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Former Prime Minister Tony Blair Friday Jan. 29, 2010 testifying to Britain's Iraq Inquiry.
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LONDON - Former British prime minister Tony Blair defended the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq on Friday, saying the Sept.
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Former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin speaks after the verdict of the slander trial at the courthouse Thursday Jan. 28, 2010 in Paris.
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PARIS - The case was so complicated and torturous that the judgement was 326 pages long and took more than an hour to read out.
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An employee of French NGO Doctors Without Borders looks on parcels of medicine boxes and humanitarian aid are loaded on a plane at the Merignac airport, near Bordeaux, southwestern France, early Friday, Jan. 15, 2010.
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French president Nicolas Sarkozy has played down reports of a rift with the United States over its management of the airport in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, insisting the two countries are co-operating well in bringing aid to the beleaguered country.
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Mark Thompson, the director General of the BBC, stands outside the BBC Television Centre on March 2, 2010 in London, England.
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LONDON ENGLAND, March 2, 2010 - The BBC Trust has today published a proposed strategy for the BBC inviting views from the public and industry on the future direction for the corporation.
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Members of Serbia's anti-terrorist unit secure the area in front of the house of war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic's son, in Belgrade, Serbia, Tuesday Feb. 23, 2010.
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SERBIA - Serbian police are carrying out a raid on a Belgrade house in search of Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb army commander wanted on war crimes and genocide charges.
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Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, speaks during a financial conference in Athens, on Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010.
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GREECE - Strikes grounded flights and halted government services early today, as unions mounted their first major challenge to austerity measures in debt-plagued Greece.
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Britain's former International Development Secretary Clare Short, escorted by security, leaves after giving testimony at a hearing of the Iraq Inquiry, at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Center, London Tuesday Feb. 2, 2010.
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Tony Blair "leaned on" the Attorney General to mislead the Cabinet by saying the Iraq invasion was legal, Clare Short told the Chilcot inquiry today.
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The Afghan national army and police stand in ranks during the change of command ceremony for Combined Security Transition Command.
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LONDON - Control over some of Afghanistan's provinces is to be handed over to the Afghan government by the end of 2010, according to foreign ministers attending a one-day international conference in London.
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Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown, right, and the President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai, talk together outside 10 Downing Street in London, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010.
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A summit on the future of Afghanistan is set to start in London with a possible offer of talks with moderate Taliban members high on the agenda.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel greets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
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BERLIN - German and Israeli leaders began a historic joint cabinet meeting here Monday, the first time both governments have held such a session in Germany since the establishment of diplomatic relations over 60 years ago.
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