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Georgia gets a second chance, at long odds
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N. Ireland's recent election good news for peace
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Please take your seats: Russia's parliamentary elections
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Tariq Ramadan: a portrait of Europe's leading voice for liberal Islam
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At a crossroads in the Caucasus
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Franco-Arabs turn to the right
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Georgian leader agrees to resign
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Return of the Balkan nationalists
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The German miracle?
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British protests upset Bush-Blair lovefest
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France's far right
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How Bush betrayed Blair
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Europe's rebellious regions
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The struggle for Russia
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Georgia goes to the polls
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Putin v Khodorkovsky: another oligarch bites the dust
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Islam in France
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Europe's smokers feel heat
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Swedish church embracing les/gay unions
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Gay couples push Spain for recognition
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Vladimir Putin's KGB past
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What really unites Europe are faded imperial memories
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Clark's war: examining Wesley Clark's record in Kosovo
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Is there such a thing as Englishness?
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Doubts tearing France apart
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Kosovo and Serbia: even talking is hard work
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Swiss banks to give out data on Holocaust-related accounts
Haaretz (Israel)

Lesbian singer wins BBC talent contest
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New fears of foreigners in UK
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Chechnya's presidential election
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Remembering Russia's good old days
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Living under war's shadow: political and emotional divisions in post-war Germany
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Europe's continuing problems with the Euro
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When Laura Bush met Jacques Chirac
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Putin's war
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Europe and NATO
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Germany and the US: a reconciliation for the cameras
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Glasgow men targeted by sex assault gang
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Russia's first gay wedding scandalizes church
Reuters (US)

Gay journalist's sentence reduced in Uzbekistan
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What's wrong with Europe?
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Sex offense: Tony Blair and "sexed-up" intelligence
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Solving Europe's pensions crisis
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German states move to ban headscarves for teachers
FAZ.net (Germany)

Le Scapegoat: blaming the French for Iraq
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Colorblind crooks: organized crime in Britain
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Iceland's whale hunt makes waves with critics
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European union embraces pro-gay reforms
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Gay journalist tortured in Uzbekistan
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Homecoming: Young Londoners Return to Iraq
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Swedes say "no" to the euro
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Hypocrisy in high places: Gerhard Schroeder's gender politicking
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Uncle Suleiman's tent: life and alliances among asylum seekers
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We'll always have East Berlin
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Spain's would-be next conservative prime minister
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Grisly clues in Bosnia's largest mass grave
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Dying alone: Europe assesses this summer's heatwave catastrophe
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Blair's moment of truth
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How Tony Blair climbed the foothills of the big lie
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Terrorizing little Basques
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Leonardo painting stolen
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Campbell's war with BBC began months before Iraq exposé
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Political Correctness, Russian-Style
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American Idol: Winston Churchill's reputation fares better in US than at home
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Forgotten peoples of the Balkans
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London's changing population: immigrants moving in, Britons moving out
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Russia: Chechnya's female bombers
BBC (UK)

UK: 100,000 ready to stage first civil service strike since Thatcher era
Independent (UK)

UK: Racist shadow falls over village cricket
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Bush and Blair, so far, face different fates
International Herald Tribune

Castro blasts the European Union
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Vive le Lance
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Lipstick and lament: The lot of a television lesbian
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Volhynia: The Reckoning Begins
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France versus the EU's budget rules
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In Italy, David takes a bath
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The UN has brought peace and stability to Kosovo
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African migrants look for a better life in EU
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Why Bush is giving Russia a second chance
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A new power struggle in the Kremlin
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EU Constitution Negotiations Draw to a Close
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Italy's sex slaves
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Under right-wing reform, French strikes spread
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Tony Blair makes up the British constitution as he goes
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Out of Exile
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Theater in the former Yugoslavia
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A rocky Polish landfall for Dutch abortion boat
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Serbia's reformers enjoy power — for now
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Stasiland: the logic of illogic in East Germany
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Chechen women join ranks of terrorists
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Putin sweeps Chechen war under his red carpet
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Turkey to EU: "Don't mess with our lunch!"
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We the Europeans: the EU unveils its new constitution
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Czechs ratify EU membership
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France-US rivalry takes center stage at G8 summit
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Poland's big debate becomes Chicago's
Washington Post (US)

Britain and the euro: a fading prospect?
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How football unites Europe
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Basque basics
Slate.com (US)

In praise of French eloquence
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Ballots and bombs: Spain's elections
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Russia's darkness rising
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Poles, Jews and post-Communist insecurities
Tikkun (US)

Gay marriage bill splits Scottish parliament
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Iraq quid pro quo: US adds Basque groups to terror list FindLaw's Writ (US)

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Christian Science Monitor (US)

The new Germany: feeling like a nation again
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Axis of the unfeasible: France's Europe defense plan
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Le Monde at war: French press in crisis
Financial Times (UK)

Berlusconi not the man to speak for the EU
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Could the troubles return to Northern Ireland?
In These Times (US)

Inside the French Muslim Council elections
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Europe: remorse and exhaustion
Dissent (US)

Peace on hold in Northern Ireland
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Union busting: a setback for Chirac's ambitions
The New Republic (US)

The EU: a rapprochement of sorts
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GM crops: Europe's harvest of contamination
Le Monde Diplomatique (France)

Serbia: deposing a dictator just half the battle
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Europe: remorse and exhaustion
Dissent (US)

Time for the EU to kiss and make up
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A maze of identities for French Muslims
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Barcelona looks to ban bullfighting
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Western Europe's Muslims and the Iraq war
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European fears for victory in Iraq
Der Spiegel (Germany)

Lessons for Bush in Belfast
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War support rises in UK
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Divided by positions on war, EU looks to rebuild
FAZ.net (Germany)

Fortuyn's 'killer' speaks: I did it to protect Muslims
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Blair, war and the House of Commons
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Spain bans Basque political party
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Serbian slaying triggers mafia round-up
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Serbia's lesson
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The Blair War Project
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America: a European view
Time European Edition

Serbia's premier killed
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Molly Ivins: France-bashing is all the rage
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Tory resigns over "homophobic" remarks
BBC (UK)

Tony Blair's waffling on Iraq
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Sin Be Damned, French Say; Let's Eat
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Polish and Czech governments in disarray, following political upsets
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US and European media reporting from different planets
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Russians feel abortion's complications
Washington Post (US)

The European Union is becoming an English-speaking zone
The Economist (UK)

Who speaks for Europe? France and Germany no longer call the shots.
The Economist (UK)

Three NATO members block plans to defend Turkey
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France raises stakes at the UN
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Lawmakers in Brussels approve gay marriage
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One union under god?
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Flogging the French
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Europe's far-right resurgence fizzles out
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Slovakian Gypsies face forced sterilization
Independent (UK)

Map politics in Kosovo
Christian Science Monitor (US)

The enemy within: how equipped are Europes security forces?
The Economist (UK)

Lure of the EU may yet settle Cyprus
The Economist (UK)

High-rise hell: immigrants in the Paris projects
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Genoa frame-up: police fabricate evidence against protestors
BBC (UK)

Heightened anxiety over terror threat in Britain
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Shortened workweek shortens French tempers
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Ricin: Fear and rumor in London
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Quiet on the Balkan front
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How Europe and the US differ over values
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Washington plays on inconsistencies in Schroeder's Iraq policy
GuardianUnlimited (UK)

Chechen terror attacks
The Independent (UK)

Solicitor General urges Brits to report batterers to police.
BBC (UK)

46 Die in Chechen Bombing
Washington Post (US)

A Sniff of Someone Else's Reality: Czech Prison Letters
TOL (Czech)

Death in Moscow: The Aftermath
New York Review of Books (US)

U.S. Missile Defense Plan Upsets Russia
Washington Post (US)

Cyprus: Europe's unfinished business
The Economist (UK)

British military deployment under way in Gulf
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UK: seven held under Terrorism Act
The Guardian (UK)

EU: Engaged, At Last
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The Balts look to the EU
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Tobacco giants lose warnings battle
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Prestige leaking 125 tonnes of oil per day
Yahoo.com

Russia, NATO to Sign Military Cooperation Pact
Washington Post (US)

Transsexuals win rights in Europe
Q (S. Africa)

US and Turkey: Democracy and double-talk
Asia Times (Hong Kong)

Slovenian PM wins presidential poll
BBC (UK)

Slovenia's President Leaves the Stage
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Imre Kertesz: Dealing with Nobel
Central Europe Review (Czech)

Is Britain losing its economic luster?
The Economist (UK)

Muslim charities under suspicion in UK
The Guardian (UK)

Turkey deserves German support
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NATO's warm front ends the Cold War
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Russian Oil and Iraq Policy
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The conflict in Chechnya
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Wildlife suffers as oil spreads off Spanish coast
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St. Petersburg: Name's Back, Soon Its Luster
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UK: Fighting homophobia among black communities
BBC (UK)

Tricked and bamboozled into war
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Britain's Royal Scandals Get Queerer
Daily Mirror (UK)

Chechnya: Kremlin to impose its peace plan
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British Judges Criticize US
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How to democratise global institutions
The Observer (UK)

Holland: A Muslim Woman Speaks Out
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Women's rights activist threatened for criticizing Islam
Radio Netherlands (Holland)

Britain sets out Iraq's last chance
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Republican triumph in US: What It Means for Europe
BBC (UK)

Holland: A constitutional dilemma
Radio Netherlands

Funerals Begin After Russian Hostage Crisis
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Blair accused of hyping up French row
The Independent (UK)

Italian Parliament agrees to Iraq debate
International Herald Tribune

Spain remembers the days of Franco
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Ireland's Yes vote
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So far, Blair and Chirac are taming Bush on Iraq
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France: free speech vs. religious sensitivities
The Guardian (UK)

UK: Getting cosy with Washington
The Guardian (UK)