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EU presidency condemns Iranian ‘show trial’The trial in Tehran of a French teacher and two employees of the British and French embassies in… 08/08/09 20:39 CET
Berlin opens costly tube lineBerlin has its new metro line at last, already nicknamed the “Chancellor’s Metro” as it links the… 08/08/09 19:44 CET
War still echoes in Georgia and South OssetiaAlthough it only lasted five days, for the displaced civilians the conflict in South Ossetia was a… 08/08/09 19:44 CET
Beatles fans celebrate 40 years of Abbey RoadArriving in an exact replica of John Lennon’s psychedelic Rolls Royce, the Beatles tribute group… 08/08/09 19:44 CET
Medvedev visits South Ossetia for commemorationRussian President Dmitry Medvedev was in South Ossetia on Saturday, honouring the fallen during… 08/08/09 19:44 CET
Italian ‘vigilante’ patrols hit the streetsItaly’s controversial plan to allow citizens’ patrols to back up the police has comes into effect… 08/08/09 19:44 CET
Fatah backs Abbas as party leaderPalestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has been given the backing of his Fatah party to remain its… 08/08/09 17:53 CET
French national and UK embassy worker on trial in IranA French teacher and an Iranian employed by the British embassy in Tehran are among a second group… 08/08/09 14:20 CET
Indonesia claims al-Qaeda leader killedIndonesian police are claiming that two raids in the west and centre of the country have killed… 08/08/09 13:32 CET
‘Genocide’ museum commemorates war with GeorgiaSouth Ossetia has marked the first anniversary of the five-day war between Russia and Georgia with… 08/08/09 13:30 CET
UK in Afghanistan “for 40 years” says generalA former commander of NATO’s ISAF Afghan mission and the incoming head of the British army General… 08/08/09 13:30 CET
French embassy worker on trial in IranA French woman who works for the French embassy in Tehran has gone on trial in the Iranian capital… 08/08/09 13:30 CET
German ship arrives in Mombasa…4 months lateAfter four months in the hands of Somali pirates the German container ship Hansa Stavanger along… 08/08/09 13:30 CET
Victims of Georgia’s five-day war rememberedGeorgians have held a candlelit vigil to remember the dead one year on after their disastrous five… 08/08/09 09:14 CET
Obama: Worst of economic crisis may be overPresident Barack Obama says the latest US unemployment figures show the worst of the economic… 08/08/09 09:14 CET
Indonesia’s deadliest terror suspect believed deadIndonesian police in central Java say they have killed the man thought to be the mastermind behind… 08/08/09 09:14 CET
Burst pipeline threatens French nature reserveA burst underground pipeline in Southern France has gushed oil into a nature reserve on the edge of… 08/08/09 09:14 CET
