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Warning strikes against Germany's Lufthansa: airline (AFP) Posted: 23 Jan 2009 02:48 AM CST AFP - Cabin crew at German flag carrier Lufthansa staged warning strikes Friday, causing delays or cancellations of 80 flights, an airline spokeswoman said.

Report: 2 adults shot outside school in Norway (AP) Posted: 23 Jan 2009 02:45 AM CST AP - Norwegian broadcaster NRK says one adult was killed and another injured in a shooting in the parking lot of a school in northern Norway.

UK's Brown seeks global response to recession (AP) Posted: 23 Jan 2009 02:35 AM CST AP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown says the duration of Britain's recession depends on the degree of international cooperation in battling the economic crisis.

Lufthansa union stages warning strike in Frankfurt (AP) Posted: 23 Jan 2009 02:23 AM CST AP - Lufthansa flight attendants walked off the job Friday at Germany's busiest airport to press their demand for higher wages.

Russia and Georgia must probe war crimes, watchdog says (Reuters) Posted: 23 Jan 2009 02:07 AM CST Reuters - A leading rights watchdog urged Russia and Georgia on Friday to investigate indiscriminate attacks and human rights violations, including possible war crimes, committed during their war last year.

Closing Guantánamo: Will Europeans take detainees? (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 23 Jan 2009 02:00 AM CST The Christian Science Monitor - On no single issue has Europe been more in disagreement with America than the Guantánamo detention center. The camp was a focus of anti-US protest here, synonymous with the image of a bullying world power using torture to obtain confessions from terror suspects.

Spain arrests suspected leaders of ETA political wing: report (AFP) Posted: 23 Jan 2009 12:17 AM CST AFP - A dozen suspected members of the new leadership of Batasuna, the banned political wing of the Basque separatist group ETA, were arrested overnight, Spanish media reported.

Toyota may cut 1,000 jobs in N.America, Britain: report (AFP) Posted: 22 Jan 2009 11:58 PM CST AFP - Japanese carmaker Toyota Motor Corp. is considering shedding more than 1,000 regular workers in North America and Britain as it fights its biggest ever crisis, according to a report.

Report: Toyota mulls cutting 1,000 full-time jobs (AP) Posted: 22 Jan 2009 11:15 PM CST AP - Toyota Motor Corp. is considering cutting more than 1,000 full-time jobs in North America and the United Kingdom to cope with faltering global demand, a news report said Friday.

Andy Murray mystified by Australian Open favourites flap (AFP) Posted: 22 Jan 2009 09:32 PM CST AFP - Britain's Andy Murray said he was at a loss to understand why Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic were put out by his status as Australian Open favourite.

Paris menswear designers buck crisis aesthetic (AP) Posted: 22 Jan 2009 06:13 PM CST AP - Paris designers spurned the temptation to play it safe during the economic crisis, sending out challenging, fun and bold collections that went well beyond the basic, perennially marketable suit.

Mother sentenced for allowing 3-year-old to smoke (AP) Posted: 22 Jan 2009 04:41 PM CST AP - A British woman has pleaded guilty to child cruelty for allowing her 3-year-old to smoke in front of her.

Europe lauds Obama shutdown of secret CIA prisons (AP) Posted: 22 Jan 2009 03:54 PM CST AP - U.S. President Barack Obama's decision Thursday to shut secret CIA-run prisons abroad brought renewed calls for their locations to be disclosed as well a fresh denial from Poland, one of two eastern European countries most closely linked to the practice.

Germans buy up Nazi news reprints (AP) Posted: 22 Jan 2009 03:13 PM CST AP - A headline proclaiming "Huge Fire in the Reichstag" greeted Germans at newsstands Thursday — and although the story is more than 70 years old, customers are snapping it up.

Project tells story of Nazi forced labor (AP) Posted: 22 Jan 2009 03:12 PM CST AP - Helena Bohle-Szacki was seized by the Nazis in 1944 and thrown into the Ravensbrueck concentration camp as a forced laborer.

Muslim prayer at Milan's Duomo sparks ire (AP) Posted: 22 Jan 2009 02:03 PM CST AP - Italy's interior minister has drafted new rules for public protests after a few hundred Muslims ended a rally earlier this month by praying in front of Milan's cathedral.

Phone records said to help Politkovskaya suspects (AP) Posted: 22 Jan 2009 01:17 PM CST AP - Lawyers defending two Chechen men charged in the 2006 slaying of investigative reporter Anna Politkovskaya presented phone records Thursday that they said disprove prosecutors' claims the suspects rehearsed the brazen shooting days before it took place.

Russians, Cubans seek to boost ties in Moscow (AP) Posted: 22 Jan 2009 12:21 PM CST AP - Russian and Cuban officials met Thursday in Moscow ahead of Cuban President Raul Castro's visit later this month — part of the Kremlin's efforts to project global power and renew Cold War alliances.

Timber from Russian ship washes up on UK shores (AP) Posted: 22 Jan 2009 12:05 PM CST AP - Authorities say more than a thousand tons of timber knocked off the deck of a Russian cargo ship are washing up on the English coast.

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