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Protesters throwing stones at policemen guarding Greece's parliament in Athens on Wednesday.
By RACHEL DONADIO AND ANTHEE CARASSAVA
A general strike in Greece is disrupting services after four days of violent protests over a police killing.
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Belgian police say they have detained 14 suspected Islamic extremists with links to the al-Qaida terror network.
By SARAH LYALL
Shown on Sky Television, the film "Right to Die?" is said to be the first broadcast on British TV of the moment of death in an assisted suicide case.
By JOHN F. BURNS
The long-expected drawdown will bring an effective end to Britain's role as the principal partner of the United States in the occupation of Iraq.
By STEVEN ERLANGER
The French Foreign Minister, Bernard Kouchner, shocked his supporters Wednesday when he said in an interview that "there is permanent contradiction between human rights and the foreign policy of a state, even in France."
By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL
As ministers from 189 countries gather in Poland to arrive at a new climate change treaty, and with the European Union struggling to finalize its own climate package, progress is hampered by the absence of the team that will forge Barack Obama's climate policy.
By WALTER GIBBS
In his acceptance speech Wednesday in Oslo, Martti Ahtisaari, the former president of Finland, urged Barack Obama to give high priority to the Middle East during his first year in office.
By CAROLINE BROTHERS
Amid constant noise and in temperatures cooled by the blast of artificial wind, 85 engineers are working in round-the-clock shifts to repair the walls in record times.
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The largest political party in Switzerland, the anti-European Union SVP, reentered the coalition Wednesday with the election of Ueli Maurer to the seven-member Federal Council.
By CLIFFORD LEVY
Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko announced in Kiev that she had formed a new parliamentary coalition with allies of the president, Viktor Yushchenko, and a small third party.
By SARAH LYALL
The tiny Channel Island of Sark, off the coast of France, is split between preserving its old ways or aligning with more modern ones.
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A former World Bank economist was chosen Wednesday to become Romania's next prime minister — a job he held before as the country emerged from decades of communism.
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International regulators must ban the public release of cockpit voice recordings from fatal accidents since their sole purpose is to assist accident investigators, the main international pilots federation said Wednesday.
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A government office says Czech police are unlawfully storing DNA from people with no criminal record.
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By JUDY DEMPSEY
The European Union summit meeting on Thursday is not going to be fun for the German chancellor, with the other big EU states in no mood to listen to her reasons why Germany is not doing more to mitigate the effects of the global financial crisis.
By VICTORIA BURNETT
As the Spanish economy shrinks, companies are disgorging workers at an alarming rate and immigrants in low-skilled jobs have been hit hardest.
By JAMES KANTER
The lessons learned are coming under fresh scrutiny as EU leaders meet to work on the next phase, and President-elect Barack Obama has pledged to move quickly on a similar program.
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