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Europe’s armies are under-performing and will need fresh Franco-British impetus to meet future challenges, a top think-tank’s report says.
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Police charge a 23-year-old man with the murders of two French students in south-east London.
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An Italian court orders thegovernment to pay damages to a man who had to retake his driving test because he was gay.
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A French court denies citizenship to a Muslim woman, ruling that her practice of “radical” Islam is not compatible with French values.
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Riccardo Ricco breaks away on the Col de Aspin to claim his second stage win of this year’s Tour de France in Bagneres de Bigorre.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy launches a Union for the Mediterranean, aimed at ending Mid-East conflict.
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The authorities in Argentina say they have uncovered a multi-million dollar operation in forged Italian passports.
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A national newspaper claims to have discovered the true identity of guerrilla artist Banksy.
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Poland’s former Foreign Minister Bronislaw Geremek - a key anti-communist dissident - is killed in a car crash.
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Pope Benedict XVI says he will apologise for Church sex abuse scandals, as he arrives in Australia.
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A South American summit under way in Argentina is set to voice strong criticism of new European Union immigration laws.
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Film star Angelina Jolie checks into a hospital in the south of France where she is expected to give birth to twins.
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The man wanted over the killing of journalist Anna Politkovskaya is hiding in western Europe, Russia’s chief investigator says.
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French authorities exhume the body of a women who was murdered in Ireland almost 12 years ago.
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France’s army chief of staff resigns after a soldier injured 17 people at a show by using live rounds instead of blanks.
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A 78-year-old man falls asleep as he tries to row home to Denmark from Sweden after a night drinking, police say.
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President Sarkozy admits that France’s EU presidency is off to a bumpy start, as Poland casts doubt on the Lisbon Treaty.
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Turkey’s chief prosecutor presents his case for banning the ruling AK party to the constitutional court.
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France says President Sarkozy will meet his Syria counterpart ahead of a summit to launch a new Mediterranean union.
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The EU’s telecoms watchdog plans to cut mobile phone call costs by reducing fees that operators charge each other.
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Buena Vista Social Club director Wim Wenders is appointed to chair the jury at the 2008 Venice Film Festival.
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Spain claim their first title in 44 years after beating Germany 1-0 in the Euro 2008 final in Vienna.
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The Italian cabinet moves to reinstate a law granting immunity to top officials - including PM Silvio Berlusconi.
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Bulgaria withdraw their weightlifting team from this summer’s Beijing Olympics as 11 lifters fail a drugs test.
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and EU leaders agree to start new talks on a strategic partnership.
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An 11-year-old Romanian girl, raped by an uncle, is to be allowed a late abortion even though it is forbidden by law.
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Thousands of supporters of Iran’s outlawed opposition rally in France to end international bans on its armed wing.
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A military shooting demonstration in France leaves 16 people wounded, after real bullets are used instead of blanks.
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An assembly set up by Kosovo Serbs holds its first session in defiance of the majority ethnic Albanian government.
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Turkey’s chief prosecutor gives evidence in a case to close a pro-Kurdish political party allegedly linked to PKK rebels.
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EU agriculture ministers approve stricter controls on the use of pesticides, after two years of debate.
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Germany says it will send an extra 1,000 soldiers to northern Afghanistan, amid signs of strain in the Nato mission.
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Ukraine’s authorities are investigating allegations that the prime minister’s daughter was assaulted by police.
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Pirates capture a German family off the coast of Yemen and take them to the breakaway republic of Somaliland, officials say.
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Confusion mars the French president’s departure from Israel as a policeman guarding the airport shoots himself dead.
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An Italian-born businessman invented Vatican connections as part of a property fraud, New York authorities allege.
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A Claude Monet painting, Le Bassin Aux Nympheas, fetches a record

A Claude Monet painting, Le Bassin Aux Nympheas, fetches a record

Iran condemns as illegal the latest raft of European Union sanctions over its uranium enrichment programme.
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