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Police stand guard in a Basque village MADRID (AFP) - The explosion of a booby-trapped van outside a civil guard barracks in Spain's restive Basque country on Wednesday killed a man and wounded four other people, police told AFP. Spanish media attributed the blast to the armed Basque separatist...
Spanish police has confirmed that a car bomb has exploded at a police barracks in the Basque Country in northern Spain. Wednesday's explosion killed one person and wounded three more, while leaving at least two others trapped in the rubble of a building, according to the police. Police said that...
About 10,000 people demonstrated Tuesday against what they said was an attempt to assassinate the leader of a major ethnic Albanian opposition party in the northwest Macedonian city of Tetovo. Ali Ahmeti, a former rebel commander, was unhurt when gunmen sprayed his car with automatic gunfire late...
Italy's top criminal court overturned the acquittals of a Vatican cardinal and another top churchman accused of environmental pollution involving a Vatican Radio transmission tower near Rome, news reports said Tuesday night. The Court of Cassation ordered a new appeals trial for Cardinal Roberto...
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Scientists in Australia and Greece appear to be moving closer to identifying genes that determine which test-tube embryos stand the best chance of implanting in the womb and growing into healthy babies. There is currently no way of telling which embryos are likely to develop...
UNITED NATIONS, May 13 (UPI) -- A former Bosnian military commander who was found guilty of committing crimes against Muslims was transferred Tuesday to a jail in Italy, officials said. The U.N. International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia said that Vinko Martinovi, also known as...
Protesters at the US embassy in Madrid in April 2004 on the anniversary of the death of Jose Couso [EPA] Spain's national court has dropped murder charges against three United States soldiers accused of killing a Spanish television cameraman during the shelling of a Baghdad hotel in 2003. A...
Venezuela announced plans Tuesday to ship oil to Portugal in exchange for food products and other goods that have been running short in the South American country. Venezuela, Latin America's largest oil producer, will send as many as 30,000 barrels of crude a day to Portugal by late 2008,...
With the tremendous razzmatazz of the U.S. nomination campaigns, some important political events in other countries have been under-publicized. Startling is the imminent adoption of the Treaty of Lisbon, intended to transform Western and Central Europe into a functioning confederacy. And so is...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden --(Business Wire)-- TeliaSonera International Carrier expands its extensive international backbone further into Eastern Europe and sets up its first point of presence in Sofia. Customers will benefit from the availability of high quality IP services and the ability to connect...
