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SKOPJE (AFP) - Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said Friday he did not expect a Greek veto on Macedonia's bid to join the European Union because of an 18-year-old name dispute between Athens and Skopje. Full Story »
MOSCOW - A passenger train derailed between Moscow and St. Petersburg late Friday, killing at least nine people and injuring dozens, according to authorities and a Russian news agency. Full Story »
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MINSK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and Russia are unlikely to finish a pact to cut Cold War arsenals of nuclear weapons by a December 5 deadline but still aim to close the deal by year-end, Russian and U.S. sources said Friday. Full Story »
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PORT OF SPAIN (AFP) - Britain and France on Friday committed to paying developing nations to combat global warming by calling for a 10-billion-dollar climate fund financed by rich countries. Full Story »
MOSCOW (Reuters) - At least 10 people were feared dead and dozens injured when four carriages of a train traveling from Moscow to Russia's second city of St Petersburg derailed Friday. Full Story »
MOSCOW - Russian news agency says 10 killed, 130 injured in train derailment. Full Story »
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MADRID (AFP) - Spain's government on Friday approved a sweeping reform package designed to reduce its recession-hit economy's reliance on the construction sector and usher in a more sustainable growth model. Full Story »
PARIS (Reuters) - European Union members want to create a joint project on the digitization of books, French Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand said, challenging Google's plan to create a massive digital library. Full Story »
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AFP) - AB de Villiers hit a dazzling century as South Africa swept to a series-levelling 112-run win in the third one-day international against England at Newlands on Friday. Full Story »
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PERUGIA, Italy - A lawyer representing the family of a British college student who was slain in Italy is seeking euro25 million ($37 million) in damages from an American and two other defendants accused in the 2007 killing. Full Story »
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VIENNA - In a blow to Iran, the board of the U.N. nuclear agency on Friday overwhelmingly backed a demand from the U.S., Russia, China and three other powers that Tehran immediately stop building its newly revealed nuclear facility and freeze uranium enrichment. Full Story »
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KIEV, Ukraine - Ukrainian nationalists hurled red paint at a restored monument to Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin moments after it was unveiled Friday, sparking a street brawl and revealing the bitter divisions over the legacy of communism in Ukraine. Full Story »
WARSAW, Poland - Poland's president has approved legislation that allows for people to be fined or even imprisoned for possessing or buying communist symbols, two decades after communist rule ended. Full Story »
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BERLIN - Germany's labor minister resigned Friday after conceding that he didn't see a military report on a deadly September airstrike in northern Afghanistan while he held the government's defense portfolio. Full Story »
MILAN - A new panel of judges will formally open Premier Silvio Berlusconi's bribery trial on Dec. 4, more than a year after it was frozen by a now-defunct immunity law. Full Story »
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LONDON - The United States was "hell bent" on a 2003 military invasion of Iraq and actively undermined efforts by Britain to win international authorization for the war, a former British diplomat told an inquiry Friday. Full Story »
BRUSSELS - NATO governments may increase their fighting forces in Afghanistan by up to 6,000 soldiers in response to President Barack Obama's expected call for tens of thousands of additional U.S. service members, diplomats said Friday. Full Story »
AACHEN, Germany - A man accused of murdering Dutch civilians as a member of a Waffen SS hit squad said at his trial Friday that he was proud about being chosen as a volunteer to fight for the Nazis. Full Story »
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