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35 min ago | WNEM-TV Saginaw

Germans, French eye plan to create jobs for young

Germany and France are preparing to launch a drive to combat the problem of high European youth unemployment, which officials in Berlin say will center on trying to get business involved and make better use of already-pledged public money.

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Related Topix: World News, Germany, Angela Merkel

2 hrs ago | KWQC-TV Davenport

Germany celebrates composer Wagner's 200th

Germany on Wednesday celebrated the 200th birthday of Richard Wagner, the 19th-century composer whose music has been hailed as sublime art at the height of Western culture even as he remains tainted by his visceral anti-Semitic views, which later found favor with the Nazis.

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Related Topix: Opera, Wagner, World News, Germany, Richard Wagner,

2 hrs ago | Reuters

Ukraine PM bars reporters from government meetings after protest

Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov ordered a dozen local reporters to be barred from covering government meetings after they staged a protest on Wednesday over attacks on journalists at a rally.

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Related Topix: World News, Ukraine

5 hrs ago | Boston Herald

Irishman charged with 1982 IRA Hyde Park bombing

A 61-year-old Irishman was charged in Britain Wednesday with the Irish Republican Army bombing of the queen's ceremonial cavalry in Hyde Park in 1982, a strike at a top London tourist attraction that killed four soldiers and seven horses.

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Related Topix: Ireland, World News, Irish Republican Army, Essex County, England, United Kingdom, Greater London County, England, Explosion, Opinion

9 hrs ago | Connecticut Post

The women of Italy's 'Rubygate'

Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's 2010 relationship with Moroccan Karima El Mahroug, nicknamed Ruby Rubacuori ,' has led to underage prostitution charges for the Italian leader, who as Europe's most famous 'creepy old man,' is no stranger to scandal.

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Related Topix: Italy, World News, Silvio Berlusconi, Sex Scandal, Entertainment, Drama, Television

Tue May 21, 2013

WPTV Local News

Live: Oklahoma tornado coverage

CNN iReporter Brenton Leete took these unbelievable photos of the EF-4 tornado on the ground in Moore, OK on Monday, May 20, 2013.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Representative Mary Fallin, Republican, US House of Representatives, Oklahoma, Moore, OK, Oklahoma City, OK, World News, Germany

WOZZ-FM Appleton

La Dolce Vita plays out with Italian films at Cannes

Paolo Sorrentino's "The Great Beauty," a nostalgic, melancholic ode to the eternal city Rome, is one of several films that touch on the unraveling of contemporary Italy in official selection at the Cannes film festival this year.

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Related Topix: Italy, World News, Il Divo, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Silvio Berlusconi

Jerusalem Post

How not to fight anti-Semitism

"In eastern Europe, the uniqueness of the Holocaust has been blurred through a misleading equation of Nazism with Communist tyranny." Since 2007, I have actively participated in all three global forums held in Jerusalem to combat anti- Semitism.

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Related Topix: Israel, World News, Middle East, Hungary, Opinion

Inside Self-Storage

Big Yellow Self Storage Employees in Swindon, England, Pedal to Fight Cystic Fibrosis

Employees of a Big Yellow Self Storage facility in Swindon, England, recently took on the challenge of cycling the distance from London to Paris to raise funds to fight Cystic Fibrosis-all on exercise bikes.

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Related Topix: World News, Oxfordshire County, England, United Kingdom, Wiltshire County, England

The Guardian

Michael Gove suggests Wales and Northern Ireland split off school exams

GCSEs and A-levels are currently set to the same standard in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, but Michael Gove said it was hard to see how this could continue.

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Related Topix: Adolescents and Pre-Teens, Family, World News, United Kingdom

EKathimerini

Large rescue effort contains Patra hotel fire

A large fire that broke out in the hotel Astir in the western port of Patra on Tuesday was brought under control by a unit of 30 firefighters manning 10 fire engines.

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Related Topix: Greece, World News, Banking, Financial Services, European Central Bank

Transitions Online

Is Lithuania Tolerant Enough to Lead Europe?

A current of hostility to gays and other minorities undercuts the country's efforts to burnish its image as it takes the EU helm.

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Related Topix: World News, Lithuania, Gay/Lesbian

Mon May 20, 2013

MarketWatch

Marsh on Monday: Dislocation warnings on euro economy, markets

For months, European central bankers have been warning of dislocation between financial markets and the real economy.

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Related Topix: World News, Germany

Canada.com

Measles outbreaks flourish in UK years after discredited research tied measles shot to autism

In this photo Thursday, April 25, 2013 Lucy Butler,15, getting ready to have her measles jab at All Saints School in Ingleby Barwick, Teesside, England, as a national vaccination catch-up campaign has been launched to curb a rise in measles cases in England.

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Related Topix: North Yorkshire County, England, United Kingdom, Durham County, England, World News, Epidemic, Natural Disasters

Patch.com

McHenry Man Arrested for Allegedly Threatening U.S. Embassy Officials in Serbia

A McHenry area man was arrested on Saturday night for allegedly treatening U.S. Embassy officials in Serbia as well as Serbians in Chicago over a visa dispute regarding his Serbian wife.

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Related Topix: Serbia, World News, US News, US Federal Bureau of Investigation,

Globe and Mail

Doug Finley: mastermind of Tory election triumphs

Mr. Harper, then the Leader of the Canadian Alliance, and Don Plett, who was the party's president, were looking for a director of political operations.

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Related Topix: Canadian Alliance (Canada), World News, United Kingdom, Canada,

Banburycake.co.uk

Briton given space station mission

A former helicopter pilot is to become the first British astronaut to visit the International Space Station , it has been confirmed.

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Related Topix: World News, United Kingdom, Science / Technology, Space

Times-series.co.uk

Briton undaunted by space mission

Former helicopter pilot Major Tim Peake, 41, who is to become the first UK sstronaut in space for more than 20 years A former Army test pilot is to become the first British astronaut to visit the International Space Station - and says it will be less dangerous than his old job.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, World News, United Kingdom, Space

Reuters

RPT-Bankia compensation qualms signal loss of faith in Spain's banks

Many duped savers at Spanish lender Bankia are shunning a state-supervised compensation scheme in favour of expensive lawsuits, prolonging a mis-selling scandal and complicating efforts to restore faith in the banking system.

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Related Topix: Spain, World News

Sun May 19, 2013

CNN

Twister kills 1 in Oklahoma

At least one person was killed and around a dozen injured Sunday when a string of tornadoes tore through four states, ripping roofs off homes, downing power lines and tossing trees like matchsticks.

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Related Topix: Tornado, Natural Disasters, World News, India, Blizzard, Weather, Jersey, Honduras,