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29-08 International Herald Tribune - Europe Georgia breaks off relations with Russia The announcement means that the Georgian Embassy in Moscow will be closed, and that Russia will withdraw its diplomats from Georgia.
29-08 International Herald Tribune - Europe Alert issued after radioactivity leak in Belgium Belgian officials issued a warning to people living in and near the town of Fleurus not to consume locally grown fruit, vegetables or dairy products as a precaution after a leak at a research institute.
29-08 International Herald Tribune - Europe Nine medieval ships found in Oslo mud The wrecks were remarkably well preserved because they had been covered in mud and fresh water, where river waters reach the sea.
29-08 International Herald Tribune - Europe Cologne approves mosque over far right's objections The city council of Cologne has voted to allow construction of what will be one of the largest mosques in Germany, a plan that has drawn protests from residents and Cologne's Roman Catholic archbishop.
29-08 International Herald Tribune - Europe Karadzic refuses to enter pleas in war crimes case Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader, appeared in court Friday in The Hague and refused to enter pleas to all 11 charges against him. He dismissed the tribunal as "a court of NATO."
29-08 International Herald Tribune - Europe Georgia and Russia sever diplomatic ties The move marked the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union that Russia had severed formal diplomatic ties with one of the 14 other autonomous republics that became independent states in 1991.
29-08 International Herald Tribune - Europe The Olympic flame, for now, burns bright in Britain The giddy publicity surrounding what headline writers acclaimed as Britain's Olympic heroes when they returned home with their 19 gold medals reflected another peculiarly British attitude to those who do well at sport - a reworking of the adage ascribed to
29-08 International Herald Tribune - Europe Karadzic to enter pleas on war crimes charges Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic will either refuse to enter pleas or plead not guilty Friday at the U.N.'s Yugoslav war crimes tribunal to 11 charges including genocide and crimes against humanity, his legal advisers said.
29-08 International Herald Tribune - Europe Bush ready to scrap Russia nuclear deal The imminent collapse of a nuclear deal between the United States and Russia represents the most tangible casualty so far of deteriorating relations with Russia.
29-08 International Herald Tribune - Europe Putin suggests U.S. role in Georgia clash Russia's prime minister said he thought the U.S. might have helped "stir up" the conflict to benefit one of the presidential candidates.
29-08 International Herald Tribune - Europe In Europe, driving is a hard habit to break, even with gas at $10 a gallon Transportation experts say that many Europeans, out of necessity, habit or love, have proved surprisingly willing to bear the extra cost of driving.
29-08 International Herald Tribune - Europe Security group refuses to back Russia's actions Members of a regional security group offered little support for Moscow's military action in Georgia.
29-08 International Herald Tribune - Europe An embattled enclave yearns to be free (and Liechtenstein) Russia's recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent nations has filled people in the region with hope that other countries will follow.
28-08 International Herald Tribune - Europe EU court rules for extradition of British hacker to U.S. The European Court of Human Rights has cleared the way for the extradition of a British man who allegedly hacked into secret U.S. military computers, his lawyer said Thursday.
28-08 International Herald Tribune - Europe Yuri Nosenko, KGB defector, said to be dead in U.S. Yuri Nosenko, a former Soviet agent who was at the center of some of the most dramatic espionage episodes of the Cold War, has died under an assumed name, somewhere in the southern United States, a senior American intelligence official said.
28-08 International Herald Tribune - Europe EU agrees to support Georgia, but stalls over more severe action European Union diplomats agreed to increase assistance to Georgia but shied away from threats to impose sanctions against Moscow.
28-08 International Herald Tribune - Europe Regional group withholds support of Russian action in Georgia Russia suffered a significant setback here Thursday as members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a regional security group in which the Kremlin plays an important role, offered little backing.
28-08 International Herald Tribune - Europe Switzerland frees millions in Zardari's assets The accounts of Asif Ali Zardari, who is expected to become president of Pakistan, had been frozen in 1997 at the request of the authorities investigating him in a corruption case.
28-08 International Herald Tribune - Europe Russia faces diplomatic isolation over Georgia crisis The Group of 7 industrialized nations condemned Moscow's "continued occupation of Georgia," and a group of Asian allies led by China failed to follow Russia's lead on independence for two breakaway regions of Georgia.
27-08 International Herald Tribune - Europe Swiss government opposes ban on minarets The government said the proposal would violate human rights and the Constitution.
27-08 International Herald Tribune - Europe Museum head apologizes for treatment of woman wearing Islamic veil The episode, which has kindled controversy in the Italian media and arguments between politicians, occurred Sunday in a Venetian museum.
27-08 International Herald Tribune - Europe NATO ships cause alarm in Moscow Russian commanders said they were growing alarmed at the number of NATO warships sailing into the Black Sea, conceding that NATO vessels now outnumbered the ships in their fleet anchored off the western coast of Georgia.
27-08 International Herald Tribune - Europe Russia's NATO envoy, big on bluster, modifies his tone Dimitri Rogozin of Russia is a charismatic orator with a rascally sense of humor, once a nationalist who hung pictures of Stalin on the wall. But he is not sounding so extreme any more.
27-08 International Herald Tribune - Europe Text: Medvedev's statement on South Ossetia and Abkhazia The text of the statement made by the president of Russia, Dmitri A. Medvedev, recognizing the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia from the Republic of Georgia.
27-08 International Herald Tribune - Europe Russia backs independence of Georgian enclaves Russia formally recognized the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia in a challenge to the West.
27-08 International Herald Tribune - Europe British police probe murder plot against Brown Police investigating a suspected conspiracy to assassinate Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his predecessor, Tony Blair, arrested a 29-year-old man in central England.
27-08 International Herald Tribune - Europe Stocks tumble in Moscow after Russia recognizes separatist regions in Georgia The loss of billions of dollars in paper value is confronting the Kremlin with a dimension to its geopolitical posturing that never existed during the cold war.
27-08 International Herald Tribune - Europe Text: Saakashvili's statement on Russia's action Here is the written statement by the president of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, concerning Russia's recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent states.
27-08 International Herald Tribune - Europe U.S. cancels plan to send military ship carrying aid to Poti The United States canceled plans to dock a military ship carrying humanitarian aid in the Georgian port of Poti, where Russian forces are posted on the outskirts, a spokesman with the U.S. Embassy said Wednesday.
27-08 International Herald Tribune - Europe Syria, Iran warm to Russia as U.S. tensions grow President Bashar Assad of Syria has publicly stepped up his outreach to old ally Russia in recent days, seeking aid to build up Syrian military forces and offering Moscow help in return — in an apparent effort to exploit a new Russian-American rift.
26-08 International Herald Tribune - Europe European diplomats seek civilian monitoring mission to Georgia The meeting of senior diplomats in Brussels points to a cautious European approach, with officials mindful that their options for punitive action against Moscow are limited.
26-08 International Herald Tribune - Europe Paris mayor to run for Socialist leadership The acknowledgement by Bertrand Delanoë, the mayor of Paris, sets the stage for a showdown with Ségolène Royal, the former presidential candidate.
26-08 International Herald Tribune - Europe Arrest made after threats to Britain's leader British counterterrorism police officers arrested a 25-year-old man Tuesday during an investigation into threats to kill Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
26-08 International Herald Tribune - Europe Daughter reveals Thatcher's dementia The former prime minister of Britain has been suffering from the disorder for at least eight years and has often had to be reminded that her husband is dead, Carol Thatcher writes in a new memoir.
26-08 International Herald Tribune - Europe Europe sets date when deaths overtake births: 7 years A EU study concedes for the first time that Europeans will begin their long foreseen demographic decline in just seven years' time.
26-08 International Herald Tribune - Europe Russia formally recognizes enclaves The decree, signed by President Dmitri Medvedev on Tuesday, set Russia on a collision course with the West.
26-08 International Herald Tribune - Europe Russian stocks slide after Medvedev recognizes independence of disputed regions The benchmark RTS share index fell more than 6 percent on Tuesday after President Dmitry Medvedev's decision to recognize the independence of the Georgian breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
26-08 International Herald Tribune - Europe South Ossetia: Poor, rural and perhaps independent South Ossetia, the tiny, mountainous home to apple orchards, counterfeiters, smugglers and drug traffickers, has become the center of a Cold War-style struggle between Russia and the West, a struggle made more complicated by the Russian Parliament's endo
26-08 International Herald Tribune - Europe Britain's Thatcher has dementia Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has been suffering from dementia for at least the past eight years, according to a memoir published by her daughter.
26-08 International Herald Tribune - Europe Georgian enclave hails tight embrace from Moscow While Russian Parliament voted unanimously to support independence for South Ossetia and Abkhazia, most Western countries support Georgia's territorial integrity.
26-08 International Herald Tribune - Europe EU treads gingerly toward its next move in Russia-Georgia crisis Vice President Dick Cheney will visit Georgia next week, in the highest level diplomatic visit by the United States to the region since Russia's military operations began.
25-08 International Herald Tribune - Europe Thatcher suffering from dementia, daughter says In a memoir, her daughter said, "The woman who had dominated discussions for so long could no longer lead debates or keep up with the thread of a drinks-party conversation."
25-08 International Herald Tribune - Europe Some victims of Madrid crash may not be identified Forensic teams have identified the bodies of more than half the 154 victims, but the poor condition of some remains and lack of DNA samples were problems.
25-08 International Herald Tribune - Europe Bodies of missing Mont Blanc climbers located The bodies were buried beneath as much as 50 meters, or 165 feet, of ice and the climbers - four Germans, three Swiss and an Austrian - probably had fallen into a deep crevasse.
25-08 International Herald Tribune - Europe A Ukrainian port with a heavy Russian accent Sevastopol, the Ukrainian home to Russia's Black Sea Fleet, is symbolic of the tensions between Kiev and Moscow, tensions that have heightened with Russia's fight with Georgia.
25-08 International Herald Tribune - Europe New tourist attack shines spotlight on immigrant crackdown in Italy After a middle-aged Dutch couple on vacation was brutally attacked in Rome over the weekend, opposition lawmakers decried the conservative government's hard-line stance on crime and illegal immigration as little more than window dressing..
25-08 International Herald Tribune - Europe Swiss engineers, a nuclear black market and the CIA A CIA deal with a family of Swiss engineers helped end Libya's nuclear bomb program, reveal Iran's atomic labors and undo Abdul Qadeer Khan's black market, officials said.
25-08 International Herald Tribune - Europe Russia votes to back independence in Georgian enclaves The Russian Parliament voted unanimously Monday to urge President Dmitri Medvedev to recognize the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, the two separatist enclaves that at the center of recent fighting, further stoking tensions between Moscow and th
25-08 International Herald Tribune - Europe Putin casts doubt on Russia's WTO accession Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Monday that Russia saw no advantage to WTO membership and should freeze some commitments made during entry talks.
25-08 International Herald Tribune - Europe John Russell, art critic, dies at 89 The English-born writer contributed art criticism for more than a half-century to The Sunday Times of London and The New York Times, and helped bring a generation of postwar British artists to international attention.