Bomb disposal experts and their sniffer dog arriving at Printemps, a busy Paris department store, after a bomb alert on Tuesday.
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Bomb disposal experts and their sniffer dog arriving at Printemps, a busy Paris department store, after a bomb alert on Tuesday.
By KATRIN BENNHOLD AND BASIL KATZ
A package of dynamite planted in a Parisian department store was found by the police Tuesday and removed after a search that threw the streets nearby into confusion.
By STEPHEN CASTLE AND KATRIN BENNHOLD
For the six months that France held the European Union presidency, President Nicolas Sarkozy dominated the European stage. But has he fundamentally changed the EU, or simply burnished his image?
By JOHN F. BURNS
A terrorism trial centering on the use of a bomb-laden Jeep to crash into the main Glasgow airport terminal in June 2007 ended Tuesday with the conviction of a 29-year-old British doctor.
By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO
A sweeping anti-Mafia raid in Palermo on Tuesday dealt a blow to the Sicilian criminal organization as it was preparing to form a commission that would have coordinated high-profile crimes, officials say.
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For more than a minute, about 10 youths blocked a broadcast showing a speech by Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis. Instead, they displayed banners reading: "Stop watching, get out onto the streets."
By ELAINE SCIOLINO
A worker preparing cod (that's Mr. Cod, to you) at the Rui Costa e Sousa plant in Ílhavo, Portugal. Frozen cod is gaining popularity.
As frozen bacalhau — a salted, cured and dried cod — replaces its fresh counterpart in the marketplace, some mourn the shift as a loss of part of Portugal's culture.
By MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ
A Russian purchase of such aircraft from Israel would be a significant expansion of military business between the two countries.
By RACHEL DONADIO
Students standing at the entrance of Athens' Polytechnic last week. Conversations with those inside revealed a mix of people protesting everything from police brutality to globalization to American imperialism.
Conversations with those inside the Polytechnic revealed a mix of students, anarchists and immigrants protesting everything from police brutality to globalization.
AP
President Traian Basescu had selected Theodor Stolojan, 65, last week to form a coalition government. But Stolojan said Monday that he was stepping aside in favor of a younger person.
By JOHN F. BURNS
Prime Minister Gordon Brown authorized an increase in troop presence over the next 10 months, but gave no indication about troop levels beyond August.
AP
Tribesmen kidnapped a German aid worker and her parents in southern Yemen early Monday and are holding them hostage.
By KEN JOHNSON
George Brecht, a core member of Fluxus, the loosely affiliated international group of playful Conceptual artists that emerged in the early 1960s, died on Dec. 5 in Cologne, where he had lived since 1972. He was 82.
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By JOHN VINOCUR
In France, Nicolas Sarkozy's erratic assertions are presented as nothing especially remarkable.
A collage of newspaper accounts shows language that makes Nicolas Sarkozy's critics say he is erratic, or his advocates to define him as dynamic; the moderate play these reports are given reflects the caution that meets much of what Sarkozy says about the world.
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