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Associated Press: World: Europe

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(AP) Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama arrived in Berlin on Thursday, meeting German Chancellor Angela Merkel and kicking off the European leg of his overseas trip amid high expectations.The German capital is the first stop on a whirlwind tour that will take the presumptive Democratic nominee to Germany, France and Britain ...

Serbia tracks fugitive warlord's helpers

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(AP) Radovan Karadzic was preparing his false identity during the autocratic rule of his mentor, an official said Thursday, promising to track down the people who helped the Bosnian Serb warlord stay on the run from genocide charges.Bruno Vekaric, spokesman for Serbia's war crimes prosecutor, said investigators are trying to determine ...

Motor racing boss Mosley wins British privacy suit

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(AP) Motor racing boss Max Mosley won a landmark privacy-invasion lawsuit Thursday against a tabloid newspaper's claims he took part in a "Nazi" orgy.High Court judge David Eady ruled the News of the World must pay Mosley $120,000 in damages for the story claiming Mosley participated in a sadomasochistic sex romp ...

Max Mosley wins British privacy lawsuit

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(AP) Motor racing boss Max Mosley won a landmark privacy-invasion lawsuit Thursday against a tabloid newspaper's claims he took part in a "Nazi" orgy.High Court judge David Eady ruled the News of the World must pay Mosley 60,000 pounds ($120,000) in damages for the story claiming Mosley participated in a sadomasochistic ...

Max Mosley wins privacy lawsuit

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(AP) Motor racing boss Max Mosley has won a landmark privacy-invasion lawsuit against a tabloid newspaper's claims he took part in a "Nazi" orgy.High Court judge David Eady says the News of the World must pay Mosley 60,000 pounds (US$120,000) in damages for the story claiming Mosley took part in a ...

Who was Dragan Dabic? Karadzic's fake ID probed

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(AP) Authorities are investigating who helped ex-Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic assume the false identity that helped him elude capture for more than a decade.Bruno Vekaric, the spokesman for Serbia's war crimes prosecutor, says investigators are also trying to determine who was Dragan Dabic. That's the name the genocide suspect used ...

Racing boss Mosley wins lawsuit against tabloid

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(AP) Motor racing boss Max Mosley has won a landmark invasion of privacy lawsuit against a tabloid newspaper story that alleged he took part in a Nazi-themed sadomasochistic orgy.High Court judge David Eady says the News of the World must pay Mosley $120,000 in damages for the story. Mosley admits the ...

Kosovo editor fined for naming witness

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(AP) The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal convicted and fined an award-winning journalist $11,000 Thursday for publishing the name of a witness who testified anonymously in the trial of Kosovo's former prime minister.Baton Haxhiu, editor of the daily Kosovo Express, was convicted of contempt of court for endangering the witness and his ...

Karadzic's secret life enthralls his fellow Serbs

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(AP) Radovan Karadzic sent word he plans to defend himself against U.N. genocide charges, but his fellow Serbs were more enthralled with details that emerged Wednesday about his secret life: a mistress, a bogus family in the U.S., and regular visits to the Madhouse bar and its photo of his beardless ...

Ukraine Jews want graves building halted

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(AP) A Jewish group asked the Ukrainian government on Wednesday to stop construction on the site of a grave containing the remains of an estimated 26,000 victims of the Holocaust.The Jewish community in Odessa says a developer has begun building what it believes will be a shopping mall on the site ...

Woman charged with bludgeoning toddlers to death

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(AP) A German woman was charged Wednesday with bludgeoning two toddlers to death with a hammer and seriously injuring their mother in a rampage in Sweden spurred by jealousy over an ex-boyfriend.According to the charges, the woman entered the family's home March 17 in Arboga, about 95 miles west of Stockholm, ...

Drug smugglers get record sentences in Ireland

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(AP) A trio of English cocaine smugglers who were caught after putting the wrong fuel into their boat received the longest drug-related prison sentences in Irish history Wednesday.Martin Wanden, 45, and Perry Wharrie, 48, received 30-year terms, while 41-year-old Joe Daly was given 25 years by Judge Sean O Donnabhain in ...

100 employees at French nuke site contaminated

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(AP) The French electric company EDF says that 100 employees have been "slightly contaminated" by a leak at a reactor site in southern France.It was the third incident at a French nuclear site in recent weeks and the second at the huge Tricastin site.An EDF spokeswoman says the employees were exposed ...

Karadzic's secret life enthralls his fellow Serbs

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Why dope? Riders don't fear tests, rewards beckon

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(AP) Cycling's image is in tatters, and authorities inside and outside the sport are being tougher than ever on doping. Yet it hasn't stopped the drug cheaters at the Tour de France.Beyond ethics, it would seem to defy common sense for cyclists to break the rules in the middle of such ...