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Associated Press: World: Europe

2 hours, 36 minutes ago

(AP) Tens of thousands of people crowded into Pamplona's main square Sunday to celebrate the launching of a rocket that each year marks the beginning of Spain's most famous bull-running festival."Men and women of Pamplona, all hail to San Fermin," town councilor Uxe Barkos said from a balcony overlooking the crowd ...

Student stabbings: suspect freed

2 hours, 36 minutes ago

(AP) The parents of a French student savagely stabbed to death in London called Sunday for his killer or killers to turn themselves in, and urged the British people to help police solve the crime.Police released without charge the only person so far arrested in connection with the June 29 deaths ...

Germany's Merkel urges G-8 action on food

7 hours, 21 minutes ago

(AP) German Chancellor Angela Merkel called on the Group of Eight summit to agree on a "comprehensive package of measures" to tackle the fallout from soaring food prices, according to commentary published Sunday.The leaders of the world's leading industrial nations open their annual summit in Japan on Monday at a time ...

Germany's Merkel urges G8 action on food

7 hours, 21 minutes ago

French victim's parents make UK appeal

8 hours, 6 minutes ago

(AP) The parents of a French student savagely stabbed to death in London called Sunday for his killer or killers to turn themselves in, and urged the British people to help police solve the crime.Francoise and Olivier Ferez said their son's attackers would not be able to hide forever, and called ...

French victim's parents make appeal to British

8 hours, 6 minutes ago

(AP) The parents of a French student savagely stabbed to death in London called Sunday for his killer or killers to turn themselves in, and urged the British people to help police solve the crime.Francoise and Olivier Ferez said their son's attackers would not be able to hide forever, and called ...

UK lawmakers to launch new rendition probe

10 hours, 42 minutes ago

(AP) Lawmakers pledged Sunday to study the movements of planes and ships traveling to the remote British outpost Diego Garcia amid persistent suspicion it is used by U.S. authorities to detain or transfer terrorism suspects.Parliament's Foreign Affairs Select Committee said it plans a thorough investigation of the use of the Indian ...

UK lawmakers to launch new rendition probe

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Russian parties get more government funding

1 day ago

(AP) Russia's lower house of parliament on Saturday passed a measure quadrupling government funding for major political parties. This will bring tens of millions of dollars into the coffers of the dominant United Russia party, but leave liberal opposition parties with nothing.The bill was passed by a 444-0 vote in the ...

148 illegal immigrants reach Spain

1 day ago

(AP) A small boat packed with at least 148 illegal immigrants from Africa landed Saturday on a beach in the Canary Islands, the Interior Ministry said Saturday.The flimsy fiberglass vessel arrived at La Tejita beach on Tenerife's south coast around 6:30 a.m. (0530 GMT) as wind surfers were preparing to take ...

Police: Man rips off wax Hitler's head

1 day, 2 hours ago

(AP) A man tore the head off an Adolf Hitler wax figure at Madame Tussauds' new branch in Berlin in what appeared to be a symbolic protest on the museum's opening day Saturday, police said.The 41-year-old man shoved aside two museum employees _ one of whom was assigned to protect the ...

Belarus president: Bomb not aimed at me

1 day, 2 hours ago

(AP) Belarus' authoritarian president said Saturday he does not believe a bomb that tore through a concert he was attending was aimed at him.The bomb wounded around 50 people who were among thousands at a concert Friday in central Minsk commemorating Belarus' Independence Day."I don't think it was targeted against me," ...

Arrest made in London murders

1 day, 2 hours ago

(AP) British police arrested a suspect Saturday in the brutal murders of two French students who were tied up and stabbed scores of times before their bodies were set alight.The killings have shocked a country already worried by a spate of knife attacks involving young people; 18 teenagers have been slain ...

Royal servant's letters auctioned

1 day, 2 hours ago

(AP) Collectors paid thousands of pounds (dollars) Saturday for letters from British royalty to a trusted servant, including a note from the late Queen Mother Elizabeth requesting the aide pack bottles of gin and Dubonnet for an outing, "in case it is needed."The note sold for 16,000 pounds ($32,000) at an ...

Arrest in London murders of 2 Frenchmen

1 day, 7 hours ago

(AP) British police arrested a suspect early Saturday over the brutal stabbing murders of two French students.Officers detained a 21-year-old man on a street in southeast London at about 3:40 a.m. (0240 GMT), police said. He was being held at a London police station.Police would not say whether the arrested man ...