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Israeli PM Netanyahu unveils new unity government
May 8th
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JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu unveiled a revamped coalition government on Tuesday, forming a broad alliance with the chief opposition party that could free his hand to take bold action on peace with the Palestinians and decide whether to attack Iran. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the weekly cabinet meeting at his Jerusalem office, Monday, May 7, 2012. Netanyahu said Monday his Likud Party is going to propose Sept. 4 as the date for early elections. (AP Photo/Gali Tibbon, Pool) Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Kadima party leader Shaul Mofaz shake hands before holding a joint press conference announcing the new coalition…
Serbia’s Socialists favor Democrats for new government
May 8th
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BELGRADE (Reuters) – resurgent Socialists said on Tuesday they were prepared to revive a coalition with the pro-Western after inconclusive elections but indicated…
Berlin police find 3 improvised pipe bombs after leftist May Day rally
May 8th
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BERLIN – Berlin police say officers found three improvised pipe bombs on the sidelines of a huge leftist protest march. Spokesman Stefan Redlich said Tuesday the devices of about 40 centimeter (16 inches) each were filled with an explosive but were not detonated. He says an explosion of the aluminum pipes could have caused serious or deadly injuries within a perimeter of 10 to 15 meters. He says experts are still investigating the explosive substance and do not yet know whether it would have burst the pipes into pieces, effectively creating a shrapnel bomb. The…
Trial against alleged head of illegal movie downloading platform opens in Germany
May 8th
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BERLIN – The alleged head of an illegal movie downloading platform is going on trial in Germany. Prosecutors accuse the man, identified only as Dirk B., of breaching copyright laws in about 1.1 million cases. The Leipzig state court in eastern Germany, which opened the trial Tuesday, could hand the suspected founder of the kino.to platform a prison sentence of up to 15 years, news agency dapd reported. Prosecutors say the kino.to movie and TV-series streaming and downloading platform registered about four millions users daily, generating high revenues through selling…
Social care ‘in crisis’, campaigners warn PM
May 8th
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Some elderly and disabled people will be condemned to a life of “misery and fear” unless the government acts now to reform the social care system, campaigners warned Tuesday. In an open letter to Prime Minister David Cameron, a coalition of 78 campaign groups and charities called for an urgent overhaul of a system they say is “in crisis”…
AP Interview: Pakistan army says US scapegoating
May 8th
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan — American efforts to talk peace with insurgents in Afghanistan mean Washington can no longer expect Pakistan to attack all the militant factions on its side of the border, some of whom Islamabad is also reaching out to, the commander of Pakistan’s forces along the frontier told The Associated Press. In a sign of the bad blood between Washington and Islamabad, Lt. Gen. Khalid Rabbani also accused the U.S. of seeking to make Pakistan a scapegoat for its failure to beat the insurgency in Afghanistan. U.S. and NATO officials say Pakistani tolerance of — or support for — Afghan factions operating on its soil is hobbling efforts to end the resistance to the…
Interpol calls for help in arrest of fugitive Iraqi vice-president
May 8th
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Tareq al-Hashemi, who is thought to be in Istanbul, is subject to red notice issued at request of Iraq over death squad claims Iraqi vice-president, Tareq al-Hashemi, denies all the charges against him, saying that they are politically motivated. Photograph: Saad Shalash/Reuters…
Carla Bruni Sarkozy: Au revoir to France’s first lady of style
May 8th
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She once was a model – a first generation super, in fact – and her effortless hauteur lit up the catwalks, not to mention the covers of any number of glossy magazines, for more than fifteen years before she married outgoing French president, Nicolas Sarkozy. Since February 2008, less than a year after he was elected and three months after divorcing his second wife Cécilia Ciganor-Albéniz, Bruni Sarkozy has adapted effortlessly to her role as immaculate first lady, like an aristocratic duck might…
Interpol issues ‘Red Notice’ for arrest of Iraqi VP
May 8th
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Interpol said Tuesday it had issued an international Red Notice for the arrest of Iraq’s fugitive Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi on suspicion of “guiding and financing terrorist attacks”. Hashemi, who is being tried in absentia in Baghdad accused of running a death squad, insisted in a statement Tuesday he was not above the law and was ready to appear in court if his security and a fair trial could be guaranteed. “The Red Notice for al-Hashemi represents a regional and…

Ukraine postpones summit boycotted over Tymoshenko
May 8th
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