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A top Greek tycoon, who was kidnapped two weeks ago, is freed unharmed after his family paid a ransom.
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Serbia’s Socialist Party says it has agreed to join the coalition of its pro-European former rivals, after weeks of wrangling.
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Spain’s Cesc Fabregas says they must not expect a repeat of their 4-1 group win over Russia in the Euro 2008 semi-finals.
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A Macedonian journalist suspected of murdering women and then writing about their deaths is found dead in custody.
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The European Union agrees new financial sanctions aimed at pressuring Iran to halt uranium enrichment.
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The Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s hopes of seeing communion extended to divorcees are quashed by the Pope.
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France clashes with the EU Commission after it calls an early halt to bluefin tuna fishing in the Mediterranean.
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Seventy-five people are arrested in a major European police operation against the smuggling of Iraqi Kurds to the EU.
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The online auction site is lobbying the European Parliament to change current trade laws.
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French President Sarkozy, addressing Israeli MPs, calls for an end to settlement building in the West Bank.
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French public sector workers strike in protest at President Nicolas Sarkozy’s pension reform plans.
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Madeleine McCann’s parents are visit the European Parliament to get support for a Europe-wide alert system for abducted children
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Austria’s compensation commission agrees a 13.9m euro settlement for a cable-car blaze in 2000 that killed 155 people.
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Villagers in north-eastern Romania elect a dead man as their mayor, to avoid giving votes to his living rival.
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A strike by fuel tanker drivers over pay ends and talks aimed at averting further industrial action resume.
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President Nicolas Sarkozy says terrorism is the greatest threat to France as he presents a new defence strategy.
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Lithuania passes the toughest curbs anywhere in the former Soviet Union on the display of Soviet and Nazi symbols.
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The EU must not renegotiate a reform treaty despite the Irish rejection of the Lisbon deal, France says.
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A Turkish publisher is sentenced to jail for “insulting the Turkish republic” over a book on Armenian killings.
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Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi defends a move to suspend some trials for a year amid accusations of conflict of interest.
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There is believed to be just one survivor from a boat that sank while carrying 150 migrants from Libya to Italy.
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The European Commission says it wants shops to sell knobbly or misshapen fruit and vegetables alongside “class one” produce.
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A Dutch court hears a civil action against the state brought by relatives of victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia.
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Bosnia-Hercegovina takes a big step towards joining the European Union, with the signing of an EU pact.
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The Swedish jazz pianist and composer Esbjorn Svensson dies in a scuba diving accident at the age of 44.
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Inflation in the eurozone has a climbed to a record level of 3.7% in May amid higher food and fuel costs, figures show.
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The Irish foreign minister says it is too early to seek a solution to the Irish rejection of the Lisbon reform treaty, ahead of talks.
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Ukraine’s president says he hopes the country can be put on the path to Nato membership this year.
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Dutch police arrest an armed man who took at least four people hostage in the Dutch city of Almelo.
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British troop numbers in Afghanistan will increase to more than 8,000 by next spring, Des Browne tells MPs
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The Spanish PM promises “zero tolerance” of violence from lorry drivers striking over rising fuel prices.
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Shadow home secretary David Davis quits as an MP over the erosion of “British liberties” and urges Labour to fight him.
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Croatia claim an impressive 2-1 win over pre-tournament favourites Germany to reach the Euro 2008 quarter-finals.
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Ireland has voted in a referendum on ratifying the EU reform treaty, in a poll which could make or break the agreement.
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An investigation is launched after six people are killed while working inside a water purification tank in Sicily.
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Wayne Rooney has married childhood sweetheart Coleen McLoughlin, according to an Italian mayor.
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The European Commission launches an investigation into the French utility Gaz de France.
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President George Bush denounces “misinformation and propaganda” which he says are sullying the US’ image abroad.
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The UN chief sets out plans to cede UN functions in Kosovo to the EU, despite Russian opposition.
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Jewels belonging to the only daughter of shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis sell for twice their estimated value in London.
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