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• Floods hit towns, evacuations underway (AFP)
• Europe names Belgian PM as first president (AFP)
• EU names Belgian PM Van Rompuy as first president (Reuters)
• Tories will work with new EU chiefs (AFP)
• Belgian-British duo wins race for EU's top jobs (AP)
• 2 lions kill white tiger in Czech zoo (AP)
• World powers weigh new sanctions for Iran (AP)
• Irate Irish cry foul after ref hands win to France (AP)
• Polanski's lawyer says director's family suffering (AP)
• Ukraine warns European gas supplies under threat (AFP)
• Lithuanian probe centers on alleged CIA prison (AP)
• Germany calls for binding climate deal in 2010 (AP)
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• Struggling Anglican leader in Rome for papal talks (AP)
• AP Exclusive: Muslim countries seek blasphemy ban (AP)
• French court acquits all in blast that killed 31 (AP)
• Not a member, US envoy attends international court (AP)
• Russian court extends moratorium on death penalty (AP)
• Serbs bid emotional farewell to Patriarch Pavle (AP)

Floods hit towns, evacuations underway (AFP) Posted: 19 Nov 2009 04:34 PM PST AFP - Rescuers were working Friday to evacuate about 200 people by helicopter from a town after storms triggered flooding, police said.

Europe names Belgian PM as first president (AFP) Posted: 19 Nov 2009 04:15 PM PST AFP - EU leaders on Thursday picked little known Belgian prime minister Herman Van Rompuy as Europe's first president with a mission to give the continent a greater world profile.

EU names Belgian PM Van Rompuy as first president (Reuters) Posted: 19 Nov 2009 03:44 PM PST Reuters - European Union leaders named Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy, who is little known outside his own country, as the bloc's first president on Thursday to lead efforts to make it more influential on the world stage.

Tories will work with new EU chiefs (AFP) Posted: 19 Nov 2009 03:35 PM PST AFP - Britain's opposition Conservatives said Thursday they would work with the EU's new president and foreign policy supremo, despite opposing the treaty that created the positions.

Belgian-British duo wins race for EU's top jobs (AP) Posted: 19 Nov 2009 02:43 PM PST AP - After years of effort the European Union named its first full-time president and powerful foreign policy chief on Thursday — but handed the jobs to two little-known compromise figures instead of global heavy hitters.

2 lions kill white tiger in Czech zoo (AP) Posted: 19 Nov 2009 02:31 PM PST AP - A rare white tiger was killed by two lions that managed to sneak into its enclosure in a Czech zoo, officials said Thursday.

World powers weigh new sanctions for Iran (AP) Posted: 19 Nov 2009 01:38 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama said Thursday that the six nations dealing with Iran's nuclear program will develop a package of serious new punitive measures in coming weeks. The European Union said the six would gather immediately to begin consultations.

Irate Irish cry foul after ref hands win to France (AP) Posted: 19 Nov 2009 01:37 PM PST AP - Soccer-mad Ireland is fighting mad — and demanding justice for a disputed goal that had fans here crying "Oui were robbed."

Polanski's lawyer says director's family suffering (AP) Posted: 19 Nov 2009 01:04 PM PST AP - The lawyer for director Roman Polanski says his wife and two children are bearing the brunt of his Swiss imprisonment and that he has proposed "very significant" bail money, house arrest and other assurances to find freedom.

Ukraine warns European gas supplies under threat (AFP) Posted: 19 Nov 2009 12:59 PM PST AFP - Ukraine's president on Thursday warned Russian gas supplies to Europe are under threat as Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met Ukrainian counterpart Yulia Tymoshenko for talks on the row.

Lithuanian probe centers on alleged CIA prison (AP) Posted: 19 Nov 2009 12:55 PM PST AP - The austere building stands in the middle of a remote, thick forest surrounded by a high fence and numerous surveillance cameras.

Germany calls for binding climate deal in 2010 (AP) Posted: 19 Nov 2009 11:40 AM PST AP - German Chancellor Angela Merkel called Thursday for all countries to fix binding climate change targets next year at the latest, acknowledging that no such deal is likely at global talks in Copenhagen next month.

(AP) Posted: 19 Nov 2009 11:38 AM PST AP - Diplomats: EU agrees to appoint Britain's Catherine Ashton as bloc's new foreign policy chief.

Struggling Anglican leader in Rome for papal talks (AP) Posted: 19 Nov 2009 11:23 AM PST AP - The Archbishop of Canterbury sought Thursday to downplay the implications of the Vatican's unprecedented invitation for Anglicans to join the Catholic Church as he arrived in Rome for his first talks with the pope on the new policy.

AP Exclusive: Muslim countries seek blasphemy ban (AP) Posted: 19 Nov 2009 10:22 AM PST AP - Islamic nations are mounting a campaign for an international treaty to protect religious symbols and beliefs from mockery — essentially, a ban on blasphemy.

French court acquits all in blast that killed 31 (AP) Posted: 19 Nov 2009 08:59 AM PST AP - A court has acquitted a subsidiary of French oil giant Total and a former factory chief in a 2001 explosion at a chemical plant that killed 31 people.

Not a member, US envoy attends international court (AP) Posted: 19 Nov 2009 07:49 AM PST AP - The American war crimes ambassador said Thursday the U.S. is committed to ending impunity for crimes against humanity, in a speech signaling a softening of hostility toward the International Criminal Court.

Russian court extends moratorium on death penalty (AP) Posted: 19 Nov 2009 06:36 AM PST AP - Russia's Constitutional Court effectively outlawed the death penalty Thursday, saying a moratorium on capital punishment should remain in force until the nation fully bans executions.

Serbs bid emotional farewell to Patriarch Pavle (AP) Posted: 19 Nov 2009 05:31 AM PST AP - Hundreds of thousands of people joined a somber funeral procession Thursday for Patriarch Pavle, the leader of the Serbian Orthodox Church through its post-Communist revival and the Balkans' bloody ethnic conflicts in the 1990s.

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