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Tensions Flare Over Rock Of Gibraltar

5:24am August 07, 2013

by Lauren Frayer

Once again, Spain and Britain are at odds over a tiny limestone peninsula at Europe's southern tip — Gibraltar. It's physically attached to Spain but has been a British territory for 300 years. Now some Spaniards want it back.

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The Risiera di San Sabba in Trieste was used during World War II as the only death camp on Italian soil. In the building's courtyard, the outline on the brick wall is where the crematorium was located.

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World War II Researchers Say 'Italian Schindler' Was A Myth

6:24pm August 05, 2013

by Sylvia Poggioli

There's no proof that Giovanni Palatucci saved the lives of 5,000 Jews, say historians who studied a trove of wartime documents. Supporters of Palatucci are fighting back, as Holocaust museums pull exhibits on the Italian policeman who had been on the track to sainthood.

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Snowden Case Illustrates Decline In U.S.-Russia Relations

6:38pm August 04, 2013

by Michele Kelemen

Russia has become a relations nightmare for the United States, and its offer of temporary asylum to the NSA leaker and fugitive is only the tip of the iceberg.

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Spanish Prime Minister Gets Grilled Over Bribery Claims

11:08am August 02, 2013

by Lauren Frayer

Spain's prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, faced a grilling in parliament Thursday over allegations that he accepted bribes for years. His party's former treasurer — now behind bars — says he personally handed the prime minister envelopes stuffed with cash. Rajoy denies it, saying his party leaders did accept payments, but that they were legal — for bonuses and reimbursement of expenses. Opposition leaders are still calling on Rajoy to resign, and many Spaniards are angry.

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Cyclists Take Nighttime Ride Through Moscow's History

5:48pm August 01, 2013

by Susan Armitage

Moscow is steeped in history and clogged with traffic. To appreciate the former and escape the latter, an overnight bicycle tour takes place every year. Thousands gather for the event, taking off at midnight and tuning into FM radio to hear historians and architects talk about sites along the route.

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Anglers fish off Galata Bridge in Istanbul in 2011. The bridge is within site of the modest waterside restaurant Akin Balik.

Catch Of The Day, Grilled The Turkish Way

10:17pm July 30, 2013

by Peter Kenyon

The fishermen are out in all weather in Turkey's Bosphorus Strait. So there's no question that the fish is fresh, as area chefs carry on the tradition of the ancient Greeks, Romans and Ottomans in putting fish to the fire.

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Nino Kharchilava describes how the mob at the May 17 demonstration attacked her and fellow pro-gay-rights activists after police put them on a minibus for their protection.

Anti-Gay Riot In Tblisi Tests Balance Between Church, State

8:06pm July 30, 2013

by Corey Flintoff

Priests of the powerful Georgian Orthodox Church led a recent attack on a group of people protesting against homophobia in Tblisi, Georgia. The incident in May raises questions about human rights and the balance of power between church and state in the religiously conservative former Soviet republic.

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Church Invested In Pay Day Loan Companies It Admonished

12:01pm July 29, 2013

by Philip Reeves

The archbishop of Canterbury says he is embarrassed by revelations that the Church of England indirectly invested in a payday loan firm that he had pledged to put out of business.

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Makis Anagnostou, a worker and union leader, bottles lavender-scented fabric softener at VIO.ME, a former tile materials factory that went bust and has been revived by its staff as a collective making environmentally-friendly detergent.

Citing Dignity, Greek Workers Take Over Factory

7:33am July 26, 2013

by Joanna Kakissis

The factory in northern Greece once produced glue for ceramic tiles. But when the country's economy collapsed and workers lost their jobs, they took it over to make environmentally friendly laundry products. Workers do everything from accounting to driving. Their effort is a hit with left-wing groups, but it's not showing up in workers' paychecks.

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Insulting The French President Is No Longer Always A Crime

7:33am July 26, 2013

On Thursday, the French parliament got rid of an old law from the 1880s that made insulting the president in public an automatic criminal offense. That's good news for former President Nicolas Sarkozy. He apparently called his successor, President Francois Hollande, a "ridiculous little fat man who dyes his hair."

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