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"Everybody should be allowed to have as much life as they can," Joy Hardy, with her husband, Bruce, who has cancer, said.
By GARDINER HARRIS
Skyrocketing health care prices have led a growing number of countries to follow Britain's example when asking the hardest of questions: How much is life worth?
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The U.S. agreed to support a modest reopening of NATO's dialogue with Russia, despite Moscow's continuing occupation of Georgia's South Ossetia and Abkhazia territories.
By WALTER GIBBS
Representatives of some 100 nations began signing a treaty renouncing the use of cluster bombs, even though the United States, China and Russia, reject the pact.
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A Spanish businessman was shot and killed Wednesday in an attack by the Basque separatist group ETA, a police official said.
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The government said testimony in the trial could be a threat to Italy's national security.
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Prime Minister Ivo Sanader says the officers who detained two men who criticized him on Facebook should be punished if they made errors.
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British army engineers defused four homemade grenades discovered in a bag in a hard-line Protestant part of Belfast, the Police Service of Northern Ireland said Wednesday.
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By NICHOLAS KULISH
As the U.S. aims to counter Russia's military assertiveness, Germany favors developing Russia economically and ensure its political stability.
By JOHN F. BURNS
Judges ordered the immediate return to prison on Tuesday of a radical Islamic preacher known as Abu Qatada, dubbed by Britain's tabloid newspapers as "Osama bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe."
By DAN BILEFSKY
Thousands took to the streets of Pristina to demonstrate against the planned deployment of an EU judicial mission that many ethnic Albanians fear will partition the new country.
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Italian police have arrested two men suspected of planning a terror attack in Milan, officials said Tuesday.
By RACHEL DONADIO
On Tuesday morning, waters had dropped to 39 inches, down from a high of 61 inches on Monday, the fourth highest flood level in contemporary history, Venice's Tide Center said.
By RACHEL DONADIO
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's lawyer said Italian newspapers rarely punished erring journalists so public figures had to defend their names in court.
By KATRIN BENNHOLD
The treatment of a journalist accused of libel, who was dragged from his home in front of his young sons and strip-searched twice, has also raised questions about the tactics employed by the police and the judicial system in France.
By HENRY SHUKMAN
In Britain as elsewhere, organic restaurants are increasingly seeking out local suppliers. After all, what good is an organic carrot or blueberry with a giant carbon footprint?
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By JOHN VINOCUR
A report talks of an EU with citizens skeptical of deeper integration, distracted by internal bickering and competing national agendas and possibly, over the next two decades, "less able to translate its economic clout into global influence."
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- Ukraine opposition alleges improper arms sales
- Georgia and Ukraine split NATO members
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