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It seems EU's foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton is dreaming of a jet plane. The EU luminary, who came under fire for failing to attend key meetings recently, has suggested that this is exactly what she needs if she is to raise her profile and keep all her essential foreign engagements.
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DNA tests have today proved that a corpse found in a Nicosia cemetery is that of Cyprus’s former leader Tassos Papadopoulos, whose body was snatched three months ago by tomb raiders in a bizarre crime that still has no apparent motive.
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Prime Minister Robert Fico has caused an outcry with his proposals to take Roma children from their families and send them to special boarding schools, which he claims is the only way to integrate the next generation of Roma into the rest of Slovakian society.
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Iceland's government is scrambling round for a new plan after voters said a resounding "no" to a tough scheme for repaying debts to the UK and the Netherlands this weekend. If it cannot find a solution, the economically battered nation risks being cut adrift by the EU and the IMF.
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To start our series on gender equality, we head to Eastern Europe, where International Women's Day is grappling with an identity crisis. The 8 March holiday fell from favour in the Czech Republic because of its Communist overtones, but now women's groups are reclaiming it as their own.
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At least 51 people are now known to have died in a powerful earthquake that shook a remote province of eastern Turkey early this morning.
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No longer do bikers, criminals and sailors dominate the tattoo world. Nowadays even some mothers can be seen sporting ink. And with the changing clientele has come a new generation of tattoo parlours and artists. Berlin’s all female Tatou Obscur is one prime example of the evolving scene.
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Icebreakers have been deployed to free approximately 50 vessels trapped by ice off the coast of Sweden. All the ships between Stockholm and the Aland Islands have now been freed but there are plenty more further north still waiting for the icebreakers to clear their path home.
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