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Tens of thousands of Italians have protested in Naples against illegal dumping of toxic waste blamed on the local mafia

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Tens of thousands of Italians have protested in Naples against illegal dumping of toxic waste blamed on the local mafia. Demonstrators carried photos of relatives...

Silvio Berlusconi has relaunched Forza Italia party as his People of Freedom party split between his supporters

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Former PM Silvio Berlusconi has relaunched Forza Italia (Go Italy) party as his People of Freedom (PDL) party split between his supporters. "I am happy...

Prosecutors are seeking a 20-month prison sentence for Laia Martin whose former neighbor is suing over alleged noise pollution

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Spanish professional pianist Laia Martin is on trial in Girona after her family's downstairs neighbor, Sonia Bosom, accused her of causing psychological harm. Prosecutors are...

Albania will not allow the destruction of Syrian chemical weapons on its soil

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Albanian PM Edi Rama says his country will not allow the destruction of Syrian chemical weapons on its soil. Edi Rama was responding to two...

The European Commission has warned Italy and Spain that their draft budgets for 2014 may not comply with new eurozone debt and deficit rules

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The European Commission has warned Italy and Spain that their draft budgets for 2014 may not comply with new eurozone debt and deficit rules. The...

Ireland is to make a clean break from its 3-year 85 billion euro bailout programme in December, without seeking precautionary funding

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Ireland is to make a clean break from its 3-year 85 billion euro bailout programme in December, without seeking precautionary funding. Irish PM Enda Kenny...

Europe has decided to relax rules about the use of electronics during flights, paving the way for devices to be used during take-off and landing

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Europe has decided to relax rules about the use of electronics during flights, paving the way for devices to be used during take-off and...

Pussy Riot’s Nadezhda Tolokonnikova has been found in a prison hospital in western Siberia

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Pussy Riot’s Nadezhda Tolokonnikova has been found in a prison hospital in western Siberia, her husband announced. Pyotr Verzilov has spoken to his wife for...

Eurozone’s economy grew by just 0.1 percent in Q3 2013

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Eurozone’s economy grew by just 0.1% in Q3 2013, down from 0.3% growth in the previous quarter. The figure marks just the second quarter of...

Christian Wulff is alleged to have accepted the payment of hotel bills by a film producer in return for lobbying while he was premier of Lower Saxony in 2008

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Former German President Christian Wulff will go on trial today over receiving and granting favors in office. Christian Wulff, 54, is alleged to have accepted...

Francesco Schettino’s former lover Domnica Cemortan has revealed how she used to sneak into the Costa Concordia captain’s cabin

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Francesco Schettino’s former lover Domnica Cemortan has revealed how she used to sneak into the Costa Concordia captain’s cabin. Captain Francesco Schettino, 53, is on...

Attempts to agree a bill that would allow Yulia Tymoshenko to leave Ukraine for medical treatment have stalled

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The Ukraine's parliament vote, on which hangs the fate of both jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko and the country's EU hopes, looks like it...

Negotiators in Brussels have clinched a deal on the 2014 EU budget after a night of hard talks

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Negotiators in Brussels have clinched a deal on the 2014 EU budget after a night of hard talks, cutting spending by about 6% compared...

Police have fired rubber bullets and tear gas to break up violent clashes during Poland Independence Day march in capital Warsaw

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Police have fired rubber bullets and tear gas to break up violent clashes during Poland Independence Day march in capital Warsaw. A number of people...

Bulgarian students have chained the doors of Sofia University as anti-government unrest continues

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Bulgarian students have chained the doors of Sofia University as anti-government unrest continues. After occupying a lecture hall for nearly three weeks, they declared "total...

Pope Francis donned a bright red nose and clowned around with a newlywed couple inside the Vatican

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Pope Francis donned a bright red nose and clowned around with a newlywed couple inside the Vatican this week. The Pope posed with the bride...

Dutch King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxim met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow

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Russia has criticized the Netherlands for "inaction", failing to prevent a Greenpeace protest at an oil rig in September, hours before a state visit...

Spain's top criminal court has ordered the release of nine jailed militants from the ETA Basque separatist group

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Spain's top criminal court has ordered the release of nine jailed militants from the ETA Basque separatist group. The Audiencia Nacional's decision follows a European...

Lara Clarke made the Pirates of the Caribbean-inspired creation for the Cake International competition in Birmingham

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Lara Clarke, an amateur baker from Brownhills, West Midlands, UK, has baked an "almost life-sized" Johnny Depp cake for a competition. Lara Clarke made the...

S&P has cut France's credit rating to AA from AA+

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S&P has cut France's credit rating to AA from AA+. The move comes almost two years after France lost its top-rated AAA status. S&P said it...

Pope Francis touched the nearly 50,000 attendees at Wednesday’s general audience in St. Peter’s Square by embracing an ailing man who suffers from a disfiguring genetic disorder

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Pope Francis touched the nearly 50,000 attendees at Wednesday’s general audience in St. Peter’s Square by embracing an ailing man who suffers from a...

The headquarters of Greece’s former state broadcaster ERT have been cleared by riot police

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The headquarters of Greece’s former state broadcaster ERT have been cleared by riot police, using tear gas to gain entry and arresting several people. Police...

Raffaele Sollecito is due to make a statement over the death of Amanda Knox’s room-mate Meredith Kercher

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Raffaele Sollecito, who was convicted and later cleared of killing British student Meredith Kercher in Perugia in 2007, has appeared in court in Florence,...

Inaki Urdangarin is married to King Juan Carlos's second child, the Infanta Cristina

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A judge in Spain has ordered properties belonging to King Juan Carlos' son-in-law Inaki Urdangarin to be impounded amid a corruption scandal that has...

Ethnic Serb communities are encouraged to go to the polls for the first time as the votes are being cast in Kosovo's municipal elections

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Ethnic Serb communities are encouraged to go to the polls for the first time as the votes are being cast in Kosovo's municipal elections. The...