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Preliminary results show Bosnians divided on vote (AP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2010 04:21 PM PDT

A Bosnian woman casts her ballot at a poling station in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, on Sunday, Oct. 3, 2010. Bosnians head to the polls Sunday for a general election likely to further entrench the country's ethnic divisions, threatening closer ties to the West and possible EU entry.(AP Photo/Amel Emric)AP - Preliminary election results released Sunday indicate that Bosnia's three-person presidency will remain deadlocked over the nation's future, with two leaders of the ethnically divided country advocating unity and a third pushing for the country's breakup.

Divided Bosnians vote for change (AFP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2010 04:06 PM PDT

Presidential candidate Bakir Izetbegovic prepares to cast his vote during the general elections in Sarajevo. Bosnians voted for change with Izetbegovic, a moderate, winning the Muslim spot of the central presidency of the ethnically divided Balkan nation, partial results showed.(AFP/Elvis Barukcic)AFP - Bosnians voted for change with Bakir Izetbegovic, a moderate, winning the Muslim spot of the central presidency of the ethnically divided Balkan nation, partial results showed.

Bosnian wartime leader's son ahead in key race (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Oct 2010 03:22 PM PDT

A woman casts her vote at a polling booth during parliamentary and presidential elections in the village of Vrapcici near Mostar, 120km (75 miles) from the capital of Sarajevo, October 3, 2010.REUTERS/Dado RuvicReuters - The son of the Muslim wartime leader was ahead in Sunday's vote to become one of Bosnia's three presidents, and analysts said he seemed intent on working with other ethnic groups to steer the divided country's future.

Moderate in lead for Bosnia's Muslim presidency: results (AFP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2010 03:13 PM PDT

Presidential candidate Bakir Izetbegovic prepares to cast his vote during the general elections in Sarajevo. Bosnians voted for change with Izetbegovic, a moderate, winning the Muslim spot of the central presidency of the ethnically divided Balkan nation, partial results showed.(AFP/Elvis Barukcic)AFP - Bakir Izetbegovic, who campaigned for dialogue between Bosnia's deeply divided ethnic groups, is in the lead for the Muslim spot in Bosnia's tripartite presidency, partial results showed Monday.

U.S., UK raise terrorism threat level in Europe (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Oct 2010 03:03 PM PDT

Reuters - The United States and Britain warned their citizens on Sunday of an increased risk of terrorist attacks in Europe, with Washington saying al Qaeda might target transport infrastructure.

Local election setback for Spain PM (AP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2010 02:56 PM PDT

AP - Spain's beleaguered prime minister suffered an embarrassing setback in a local election race Sunday, and a poll showed his party trailing ever further behind the opposition conservatives at the national level.

Pakistan: Dozens of Europeans in terror training (AP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2010 01:49 PM PDT

AP - Dozens of Muslim militants with European citizenship are believed to be hiding out in the lawless tribal area of northwestern Pakistan, Pakistani and Western intelligence officials say, training for missions that could include terror attacks in European capitals.

US terror warning could hurt Europe's economy (AP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2010 01:40 PM PDT

Police officers patrol through the crowd at the Oktoberfest beer festival in Munich, southern Germany, Sunday, Oct. 3, 2010. The Obama administration is warning Americans about potential terrorist threats in Europe and urging U.S. citizens to be extra vigilant when they're in public places such as tourist spots and transportation hubs. The State Department on Sunday came out with a travel alert for Europe that advises U.S. citizens living or traveling there to take more precautions about their personal security. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)AP - A rare advisory for U.S. travelers to beware of potential terrorist threats in Europe drew American shrugs Sunday from Paris to Rome, but tourism officials worried that it could deter would-be visitors from moving ahead with plans to cross the Atlantic.

Saracens tame Tigers at last (AFP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2010 01:36 PM PDT

Saracens gained a measure of revenge for their English Premiership final loss to Leicester with a 26-20 regular season win over the Tigers on Sunday. South Africa's Derick Hougaard, pictured here in 2003, kicked 16 points but Sarries still had to withstand a ferocious Tigers fightback and coach Brendan Venter was left frustrated by his side's lack of ruthlessness.(AFP/File/Christophe Simon)AFP - Saracens gained a measure of revenge for their English Premiership final loss to Leicester with a 26-20 regular season win over the Tigers on Sunday.

Pope warns against 'deadly path' in Mafia heartland Sicily (AFP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2010 01:34 PM PDT

Pope Benedict XVI leads a mass at the Foro Italico in Palermo. The pontiff has denounced the AFP - Pope Benedict XVI urged Sicilians to turn their backs on the "deadly path" of Mafia membership, during a day-long visit Sunday to the island, the heartland of the criminal organisation.

Germany celebrates 20 years of reunification (AP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2010 01:07 PM PDT

German President Christian Wulff speaks during celebrations marking the 20th anniversary of the country's reunification, in Bremen, northern Germany, Sunday Oct. 3, 2010. Germany's post-World War II division ended on Oct. 3, 1990, less than 11 months after communist East Germany opened the Berlin Wall amid pressure from massive protests. President Christian Wulff said at the main anniversary event Sunday that reunited Germany has developed 'an uninhibited patriotism, an open commitment to our country.' (AP Photo/dapd/Axel Heimken)AP - Germany's president celebrated the country's new-found national pride but also stressed that more needs to be done to integrate Muslim and other immigrants as he marked the 20th anniversary of reunification on Sunday.

Pope to Sicilians fighting Mafia: do not fear (AP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2010 12:59 PM PDT

Pope Benedict XVI greets faithful prior to an open-air mass at Palermo, on the island of Sicily, Sunday, Oct. 3, 2010. Pope Benedict XVI paid tribute Sunday to a Palermo priest slain by the Mafia and encouraged Sicilians not to resign themselves to deep-rooted evil on an island where organized crime has held sway for centuries. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)AP - Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday hailed as a hero a slain priest who dared to challenge the Mafia in its stronghold, and he encouraged Sicilians not to resign themselves to deep-rooted evil on an island where organized crime has held sway for centuries.

400 police killed in 5 years in Russian province (AP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2010 11:04 AM PDT

Interior Ministry officers stand guard near a damaged car in Vladikavkaz September 11, 2010. A car explosion in the southern Russian city of Vladikavkaz on Saturday, that injured no one, was unrelated to the suicide bombing that two days ago killed 18 people, Russian agencies reported citing local authorities. REUTERS/Kazbek Basayev (RUSSIA - Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS IMAGES OF THE DAY)AP - More than 400 police officers and other law enforcement agents have been killed by militants over the past five years in just one of Russia's restive southern provinces, its leader says.

Document shows ex-French leader's anti-Semitism (AP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2010 11:03 AM PDT

Famed French Holocaust historian Serge Klarsfeld is photographed in his Paris office, Sunday, Oct. 3, 2010, holding a recently uncovered 1940 document. Klarsfeld said the document provides new proof of how Nazi-occupied France's wartime leader Philippe Petain ordered his government to persecute Jews. Klarsfeld says the 'important' document includes personal notes by Petain, describing how authorities should target Jews, notably by keeping them out of public office and bar them from working in schools. Marshal Philippe Petain, who headed the 1940-1944 collaborationist Vichy regime, was found guilty of treason and imprisoned on an island off the Atlantic coast until his death in 1951. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)AP - A respected Holocaust historian said Sunday that a recently uncovered 1940 document provides written proof of the personal involvement of Nazi-occupied France's wartime leader in persecuting Jews.

French terrorism suspect arrested in Italy (AP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2010 10:54 AM PDT

AP - Italian police have arrested a Frenchman suspected of links to a network recruiting fighters for Afghanistan, a French official said Sunday.

Serb pilgrims gather in Kosovo for enthronement (AP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2010 07:14 AM PDT

AP - Thousands of Serb pilgrims gathered in a medieval monastery in western Kosovo amid tight security on Sunday to attend the enthronement ceremony of the new Serbian Patriarch Irinej.

Latvian gov't wins election, painful reforms ahead (AP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2010 04:46 AM PDT

Latvians mark their ballots at a polling station in Riga, Latvia, Saturday, Oct. 2. 2010. A center-left ethnic Russian party looks poised to top the polls in Latvia's general election Saturday, the first time in the country's 20 years of independence that a pro-Russia party would win the most seats in Parliament. (AP Photo/Roman Koksarov)AP - Latvia's center-right government was poised to stay in power Sunday after voters backed its plans to continue painful reforms required by an international bailout program to fix the Baltic country's crippled economy.

65 years after WWII, a family blank is filled (AP)

Posted: 02 Oct 2010 09:34 PM PDT

FILE - This Nov. 9, 2006 file photo shows a photograph of Cornelis Brouwenstijn, bottom center, with other prints and a wallet in the archive at the International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen, Germany. Brouwenstijn's cousin Frank Seiffers received Brouwenstijn's belongings on Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2010 in Amersfoort, Netherlands, after Dutch researchers traced Seiffers through a 2006 Associated Press report on the 3,500 parcels of belongings that remained unclaimed for more than half a century in the archive in a former Gestapo base in Bad Arolsen. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)AP - As a child, Frank Seiffers didn't have a fond impression of his older cousin, Cornelis Brouwenstijn. He says he thought of the young man as something of a scoundrel.

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