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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — For the first time in 16 years, Copenhagen’s famed downtown amusement park Tivoli is replacing it’s traditional Danish Yule theme with a Russian Christmas feel to draw mo
Sep. 22, 2011
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The wartime leader of Croatia’s rebel Serbs was due to appear before a judge Monday to hear charges of murdering hundreds of Croats and expelling tens of thousands, in
Jul. 25, 2011
A selection of quotes in response to the arrest Thursday of Ratko Mladic, the top Bosnian Serb general during the 1992-95 Bosnian war who was wanted for genocide and other war crimes.
May. 26, 2011
Popular Japanese singer-songwriter Yui is eyeing a larger foreign fan base as she went on her first foreign publicity tour in Hong Kong.
May. 15, 2011
Seven presidential candidates who ran against the country’s authoritarian leader could face up to 15 years in prison and one was beaten so badly in the election’s aftermath he is unable to walk, hi
Dec. 22, 2010
OLD BRIDGE, New Jersey, June 9 (Reuters) – A New Jersey woman is waging a campaign to become the world’s heaviest living woman, admitting that she is as hungry for attention as she is for calorie-r
Jun. 9, 2010
WASHINGTON, June 1 (Reuters) – Americans inhale more cancer-causing agents with their cigarettes, probably because of the tobacco blend, while smokers in Canada, Britain and Australia get less, U.S
Jun. 2, 2010
BUCHAREST, May 26 (Reuters) – Romanian trade unions plan to stage a one-day general strike in the public sector in early June to protest against government plans to cut wages and pensions to comply
May. 26, 2010
CAMP HILL, Pennsylvania (AP) — In the movies, it’s the prison guard perched in the perimeter tower who spots the escaped prisoner and sounds the alarm. In reality, video cameras and electrified fen
Apr. 21, 2010
The new species of hominid, the evolutionary branch of primates that includes humans, is to be revealed when the two-million-year-old skeleton of a child is unveiled this week.
Apr. 4, 2010
JOS, Nigeria (AP) — More than 200 bodies — many of them women and children — lay in the streets of a central Nigerian town after a renewed spate of Christian-Muslim violence, witnesses said Sunday, ju
Mar. 7, 2010
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippines has ordered its seafarers, comprising about a third of the world’s commercial sailors, to go through anti-piracy training before they will be allowed to boar
Jan. 4, 2010
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — The late communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was deceived by his advisers and still believed Romanians adored him hours before his overthrow, his only surviving child said i
Dec. 24, 2009
The state secretary of the Union State of Belarus and Russia Pavel Borodin on Friday argued that a new Soviet Union is likely to come into being by 2017 as the result of the emergent customs union of
Dec. 18, 2009
Chisinau, December 17 (Interfax) – Moldovan Prime Minister Vlad Filat has ordered that barbed wire on the Moldovan-Romanian border be removed.
Dec. 17, 2009
BRUSSELS, Dec 11 (Reuters) – European leaders pledged onDec. 11to give 2.4 billion euros ($3.5 billion) each year to developing countries over the next three years to try to win their support for a cl
Dec. 11, 2009
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The June 19 defense pact signed between Russia and North Korea included a promise to provide military assistance to one another – within days Pyongyang said it was sending troops to Ukraine.
Jun. 26