Europe

When Cultural Heritage Is At Risk, Italy's Art Police Come To The Rescue

5:33am October 22, 2016

by Christopher Livesay

Over the decades, they've tracked down looted paintings and manuscripts, and rescued artwork after natural disasters. These days, they're salvaging centuries-old works in Italy's Amatrice quake zone.

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Russia Has Abandoned Pacts It Helped To Negotiate, Vershbow Says

6:25pm October 21, 2016

Alexander Vershbow, NATO's deputy secretary general, tweeted as his term ended: "As I leave NATO I hope Russia will return to the rules-based European security system." He talks with Steve Inskeep.

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A banner reads "Stop CETA - it's enough" during a protest in front the Walloon parliament in Namur, Belgium, during a meeting on the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement.

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One Tiny Belgian Region Blocks International Trade Deal

6:06pm October 21, 2016

by Sonari Glinton

Wallonia, a French-speaking Belgian region with fewer than four million residents, is holding up Europe's free trade agreement with Canada.

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Mixed Reaction As Calais Refugees Are Rehoused Across France

4:58pm October 21, 2016

by Eleanor Beardsley

Refugees from the soon-to-be-razed squatters camp in Calais are being resettled in reception centers across France. The country has traditionally been a haven for asylum seekers, but resettling the newest wave is dividing communities.

NASA has released this image of a section of Mars' surface where the European Space Agency's lander is believed to have met its end.

Science

Schiaparelli Mars Lander May Have Exploded On Impact, European Agency Says

4:23pm October 21, 2016

by Bill Chappell

Instead of drifting gently onto Mars' surface, the Schiaparelli Mars lander hit the planet hard — and possibly exploded, the European Space Agency says.

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'Julian Assange Personal Internet Service': A Stand Up Comedian Outside An Embassy

6:07pm October 20, 2016

Ecuador says it decided to "temporarily restrict" Internet access for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at its embassy in London. On hearing this, Bobby Mair, a Canadian stand-up comedian based in London, showed up outside the embassy with a sign that read "Julian Assange personal internet service" and spent the day reading the news to Assange through a megaphone.

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Spanish rejoneador Pablo Hermoso de Mendoza brandishes a banderilla as he fights a bull during the El Pilar Feria at La Misericordia bullring last week.

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Spanish Top Court Overturns Catalonia's Bullfighting Ban

5:48pm October 20, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

The judges ruled it was unconstitutional and infringed on the government's responsibility to preserve Spain's cultural patrimony. Catalan lawmakers approved the ban in 2010, citing animal cruelty.

Mars Lander May Be Missing, But A Second Spacecraft Is Still Humming Along

3:25pm October 20, 2016

by Rae Ellen Bichell

As scientists try to figure out what happened to the Schiaparelli lander, which may have crash-landed, a craft known as the Trace Gas Orbiter is orbiting the red planet in search of signs of life.

A poster of mathematician and computing innovator Alan Turing.

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U.K. Will Posthumously Pardon Thousands Of Gay And Bisexual Men

2:52pm October 20, 2016

by Rebecca Hersher

The so-called Turing Law would automatically issue pardons to thousands of men who had been convicted for having consensual relationships with other men under laws that have since been repealed.

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Kosovo's Government Cracks Down On Extremist Recruiting

6:40am October 20, 2016

by Sylvia Poggioli

Kosovo is a small country with an outsized contribution to Middle East extremist groups. In recent years, more of its citizens per capita joined armed groups in Syria than any other European nation.

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