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A NEWSPAPER close to Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi issued an ultimatum to his allies yesterday, saying they must back laws shielding him from court trials or risk a government collapse.

Some 84 percent of Italians oppose a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights that crucifixes should be removed from Italian classrooms, according to a poll on Sunday.

It is the British empire of the dead.Scattered across 150 countries and managed from a modest office building near London's Heathrow Airport, a global patchwork of graveyards constitutes a beautiful memorial to the ugliest carnage: the 1.7 million fighting men and women who died for Britain and its dominions in the world wars of the last ...

Nuclear impasses with Iran and North Korea are the dominant issues for Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on her trip to Europe and Asia, which begins with a stopover in Germany to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall's fall.

In this photo made available by the British Ministry of Defence, showing British soldiers, forming Battle Group North West hold a Remembrance Sunday service and parade at the Musa Qal'eh District Centre Forward Operating Base in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, Sunday Nov.

BRITISH public support for the war in Afghanistan is falling, while more than 40 per cent do not understand why British troops are fighting there, a poll released on Remembrance Sunday showed.

Ukraine could delay a January presidential election until May next year if the government fails to control an outbreak of H1N1 flu, a senior official wrote on the respected news Web site Ukrainska Pravda on Friday.

In this photo taken Oct. 26, 2009, Yvonne Shaw holds a photo and items that she has from her Finnish pen pal of 14 years, Leena Hietula, in Urbana, Ill.

Senior U.S. and Czech defense officials held talks Friday to discuss ways for the Czech Republic to participate in a reworked U.S. missile defense plan.

Massive colorful dominoes painted by German students were placed Saturday along the former path of the Berlin Wall to mark the 20th anniversary of the opening of the barrier that divided the city for nearly three decades.

Two British ticketholders shared a massive 90 million jackpot in Friday night's Euromillions draw, Camelot said.

ROME Italy's Silvio Berlusconi praised the virility of Kazakhstan's men during a visit to Rome by its president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, saying this was the reason for the former Soviet country's population growth.

Monaco's Prince Albert II is filing a lawsuit in the U.S. against an American who claims he once worked as the prince's personal spymaster and is owed back pay, the prince's French lawyer said Friday.

In Britain, there are no long lines of people seeking swine flu vaccine. Doctor's offices aren't swamped with desperate calls.

Romanian officials said Friday that the International Monetary Fund will delay access to a a 1.5 billion bailout loan while the country struggles to set up a new government.

One of Czech President Vaclav Klaus's goals may be to have the Czech Republic regain its lost sovereignty, for example by its departure from the EU, Petr Hajek, deputy head of the Presidential Office, said on Prima TV Wednesday.

Ukrainian state energy company Naftogaz will pay for Russian gas on time, Energy Minister Yuri Prodan said on Wednesday.

Daigle, Arthur Max,Katy - Activists of anti-poverty group Oxfam wearing masks of world leaders fron left to right: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, US President Barack Obama, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Spain's Jose Luiz Rodriguez Zapatero and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, perform during the ...

In this Dec. 9, 2008 file photo Ines Schoenwald checks bottles at the bottling plant in the Rotkaeppchen sparkling wines production facilities in Freyburg, eastern Germany.

Sweden and Finland on Thursday approved a Baltic Sea pipeline project that would ship Russian natural gas to Germany, clearing two key obstacles for construction to begin next year.