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European Rights Activists Slam Guantanamo Bay Conditions
16.07.2008 14:29
dw-world.de
European human rights activists have expressed alarm about a graphic video released this week showing a young Canadian inmate at Guantanamo Bay weeping and calling out for help.
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Russian paratroopers arrive in North Caucasus for combat drills
16.07.2008 14:28
rian.ru
Paratroopers from Russia's 76th Airborne Division arrived Wednesday in North Ossetia to participate in the active stage of large-scale military exercises in the North Caucasus.
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Lawyers apply for Khodorkovsky's early release - 2
16.07.2008 14:28
rian.ru
Lawyers for Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former head of bankrupt oil company Yukos, filed an application on Wednesday with a Siberian court requesting his early release.
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Russian gas to cost Moldova $253 per 1,000 cu m from August
16.07.2008 14:28
rian.ru
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Five Lebanese militants released from Israeli jails return home
16.07.2008 14:28
rian.ru
Five Lebanese militants, freed from Israeli prisons after the Shiite group Hezbollah handed over the bodies of two Israeli soldiers, arrived in Lebanon on Wednesday.
Russia
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Russia's Tvel to supply fuel to Slovak reactors up to 2015
16.07.2008 14:28
rian.ru
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Georgia protests Russian military drills in North Caucasus
16.07.2008 14:28
rian.ru
Georgia's Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday that Russia's large-scale military exercises in the North Caucasus is another manifestation of aggression against Tbilisi.
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Moscow refuses to extradite Yushchenko poisoning suspect to Kiev
16.07.2008 13:22
rian.ru
Russia has refused to extradite a former Ukrainian security service deputy head suspected of involvement in the poisoning of President Viktor Yushchenko in 2004, Ukraine's Prosecutor General's Office said Wednesday.
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Gazprom could sue Belarus over unpaid gas bill
16.07.2008 12:18
rian.ru
Russian energy giant Gazprom reserves the right to take Belarus to court if the country fails to pay in full for Russian natural gas supplies, the company said on Wednesday.
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Hitler Card Game Raises Eyebrows in Germany
16.07.2008 11:42
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A publishing house in Berlin has released a card game featuring 32 dictators, including Adolf Hitler. The creators wanted to make an ironic statement about the tyrants but not everyone appreciates the joke.
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German Inflation Hit Record High in June, Figures Show
16.07.2008 11:42
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The German statistics office Destatis released news of the biggest increase in consumer prices since December 1993 on Wednesday, July 16 when a report showed prices had risen by 3.3 percent in June on a 12-month basis.
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