Bulgarians Protest Over Wages And Pensions

Thousands of Bulgarian public-sector employees have been taking part in rallies in protest at low wages. Waving purple labour union flags, several thousand miners, civil servants, doctors, nurses, teachers and metallurgy and energy-sector employees...

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Turkey: Bomb Security Alert Near PM's Office

Turkish police arrested a man carrying a fake bomb outside the office of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, causing a security scare in the capital Ankara. Local television stations had initially reported that the suspect was shot and wounded by police...

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Sarah Palin Car For Sale On eBay: No Bidders

Sarah Palin's hometown is auctioning a car she drove during her time as mayor of the city, but the vehicle has failed to attract a single bidder. The small town of Wasilla in Alaska listed the 1999 Ford Expedition on eBay on Monday, hoping to secure...

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Iran Nuclear Talks Are A 'Historic Opportunity'

By Tim Marshall, Foreign Affairs Editor, in Geneva As negotiators from Iran and six world powers sit down for a second day of talks in Geneva they still face major hurdles if there is to be a breakthrough interim agreement on Tehran's nuclear programme....

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Stocks Stumble On Fed Stimulus Slowdown Plan

Stock markets retreated after confirmation from the US Federal Reserve that it is actively considering a slowdown of its massive bond purchase programme. Members of the US central bank, according to minutes of their last meeting, agreed that they would...

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Xbox One Console Set For Midnight Launch

Microsoft's next generation Xbox One console goes on sale at midnight with a showpiece central London event launching the machine in the UK. Leicester Square plays host to "surprise performances and celebrity appearances", while events in New York and...

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Paris Shootings: Suspect's DNA Is A Match

DNA collected at one of the scenes of the Paris shootings is a match to a suspect arrested on Wednesday evening. The man, named by police as Abdelhakim Dekhar, was detained at around 7pm local time (6pm UK time) in a vehicle in an underground  car...

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US Korean War Veteran Held In North Korea

An 85-year-old American veteran of the Korean War has been detained for almost a month in North Korea, his family has said. Merrill Newman, of Palo Alto, California, was pulled off a plane on October 26 as he was about to leave the country. His son,...

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'Drone Strike' In Pakistan Kill Militants

A suspected US drone strike on an Islamic seminary in northwestern Pakistan has reportedly killed six people, including two Afghan militants. Three rockets were fired on the Hangu district from an unmanned aircraft, according to local security...

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Freed Greenpeace Activists Hit Out At Detention

The latest British Greenpeace activists to be granted bail by a court in Russia have welcomed the decision - but say it shouid have happened sooner. Frank Hewetson, 45, and 37-year-old Iain Rogers were among 30 people arrested by Russian security...

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