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• Gold rush means hard times in Portugal (AFP)
• Internet tool shows French web surfers 'Jewish-curious' (AFP)
• Global arms sales passed $400 billion in 2009: think tank (AFP)
• Credit Suisse banker arrested in US probe: report (AFP)
• Merkel hammered in German state poll (AFP)
• Magnitude-6.2 quake shakes east Russia (AP)
• Germany: Merkel's party defeated in state election (AP)
• EU ministers call for end to Libya bloodshed (AP)
• Govt urges 'reform, not repression' in Bahrain (AFP)
• Fairy tales and furry tails at London Fashion Week (AP)
• Italy: Libya considering constitutional reforms (AP)
• Orphanage blaze kills 10 children in Estonia (AP)
• German foreign minister met with Ahmadinejad (AP)
• History-making Irish vote shot through with anger (AP)
• Car bomb defused near hotel in Russian ski resort (AP)
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Gold rush means hard times in Portugal (AFP) Posted: 20 Feb 2011 03:39 PM PST AFP - Portugal's financial woes have triggered a gold rush of sorts, as the country's debt-strapped population sells off family valuables to pay their monthly bills.

Internet tool shows French web surfers 'Jewish-curious' (AFP) Posted: 20 Feb 2011 03:37 PM PST AFP - An Internet tool that flags up popular search words has spontaneously revealed a deeper trend: French web surfers' exceeding curiosity about whether their politicians are Jewish.

Global arms sales passed $400 billion in 2009: think tank (AFP) Posted: 20 Feb 2011 03:29 PM PST AFP - The world's 100 largest arms dealers, excluding Chinese vendors, sold weapons for $401 billion in 2009, with US vendors remaining in first place, according to a report published Monday.

Credit Suisse banker arrested in US probe: report (AFP) Posted: 20 Feb 2011 03:24 PM PST AFP - A banker working for a Credit Suisse affiliate has been arrested in the United States as part of an inquiry into suspected tax evasion by American clients, a Swiss newspaper reported Sunday.

Merkel hammered in German state poll (AFP) Posted: 20 Feb 2011 03:09 PM PST AFP - Chancellor Angela Merkel suffered an election thrashing in Hamburg on Sunday, with support for her party collapsing in Germany's second city at the start of a crunch political year.

Magnitude-6.2 quake shakes east Russia (AP) Posted: 20 Feb 2011 02:49 PM PST AP - A magnitude-6.2 earthquake rattled the east coast of Russia near the Kamchatka Peninsula, the U.S. Geological Survey reported Sunday. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries, and no tsunami alert was issued.

Germany: Merkel's party defeated in state election (AP) Posted: 20 Feb 2011 02:45 PM PST AP - Chancellor Angela Merkel's party on Sunday suffered a crushing defeat in Hamburg's state election after 10 years in power there, making an uneasy start for the conservative leader in a year with six more such regional polls.

EU ministers call for end to Libya bloodshed (AP) Posted: 20 Feb 2011 02:07 PM PST AP - The European Union on Sunday denounced strongly the Libyan governments' bloody crackdown against pro-democracy protesters and urged an end to the violence in which over 170 people are reported to have died.

Govt urges 'reform, not repression' in Bahrain (AFP) Posted: 20 Feb 2011 01:32 PM PST AFP - Prime Minister David Cameron on Sunday urged Bahrain's king to respond to protests "through reform, not repression" and condemned Libya's crackdown on anti-regime demonstrators.

Fairy tales and furry tails at London Fashion Week (AP) Posted: 20 Feb 2011 01:05 PM PST AP - Make-believe forests, Dalmatians and lipstick red hues all starred on the catwalks at London Fashion Week on Sunday, as designers injected a sense of whimsical fun and bold statement into their Autumn Winter 2011 collections.

Italy: Libya considering constitutional reforms (AP) Posted: 20 Feb 2011 11:55 AM PST AP - Libyan authorities are considering constitutional changes as they try to cope with a week of unrest by anti-government protesters demanding political and economic reforms, the Italian foreign ministry said Sunday.

Orphanage blaze kills 10 children in Estonia (AP) Posted: 20 Feb 2011 11:08 AM PST AP - A fire raced through an orphanage for disabled children in western Estonia on Sunday, killing 10 of them, a rescue service spokesman said.

German foreign minister met with Ahmadinejad (AP) Posted: 20 Feb 2011 11:02 AM PST AP - Germany's foreign minister held a rare meeting with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran in what appeared to have been a complicated deal to obtain the release of two journalists detained for four months, officials said Sunday.

History-making Irish vote shot through with anger (AP) Posted: 20 Feb 2011 09:25 AM PST AP - Ireland holds historic elections this week — a ballot that could devastate the party blamed for the country's dramatic economic reverse and dump it from office after dominating Irish politics for almost 80 years.

Car bomb defused near hotel in Russian ski resort (AP) Posted: 20 Feb 2011 08:31 AM PST AP - Sappers in Russia's insurgency-plagued Caucasus region defused a car bomb placed near a hotel in a popular ski resort area, police said Sunday.

(AP) Posted: 20 Feb 2011 08:18 AM PST AP - Estonian rescue spokesman says 10 children were killed in orphanage fire in western Estonia.

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