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Two nations, one World Cup final and 440 years of hurt
Spain play the Netherlands tomorrow against a background of conflict that goes back centuries.
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Sicilian idyll struck by the curse of black gold
Saturday, 10 July 2010
In a rustic and scenic corner of Italy an oil rush is threatening to blight the landscape, Peter Popham reports from Ragusa
Sarajevo draws new generation of tourists, 15 years after war
Saturday, 10 July 2010
For decades in the former Yugoslavia, school textbooks had a question to which everyone knew the answer: what is the geographical centre of our homeland? That was simple – Sarajevo.
Family of Spain's dead great poet Hernandez want name cleared
Saturday, 10 July 2010
To literature fans, Miguel Hernandez was one of Spain's greatest modern poets, a socially conscious young writer who combined Baroque-era rhythms and surreal images such as a mother breast-feeding her baby on "onion blood".
Five injured in running of the bulls new
Saturday, 10 July 2010
Five revellers were injured but there were no gorings at a danger-filled and crowded weekend running of the bulls at Spain's San Fermin festival today.
Named after Tony in the land where Blair is king
Saturday, 10 July 2010
"A prophet is not without honour, but in his own country". How keenly Tony Blair must have appreciated the wisdom of those words on his visit to Pristina yesterday.
Lopez gig in Turkish Cyprus cancelled
Saturday, 10 July 2010
Jennifer Lopez has cancelled a performance in Turkish-held north Cyprus after a storm of angry protest from thousands of displaced Greek Cypriots.
News blackout over Italian wiretap law
Saturday, 10 July 2010
Most Italian newspapers and news bulletins closed down for the day yesterday as journalists went on strike over government plans to ban reporting based on material gained from wiretaps.
Norway claims al-Qa'ida cell had links to New York subway bomb plot
Friday, 9 July 2010
Patrick Cockburn: Alleged operatives were arrested earlier than planned for fear of the investigation being revealed in the media
EU gives US access to its citizens' financial data
Friday, 9 July 2010
US anti-terrorism investigators have won the right to scrutinise the private bank details of British and other EU citizens after a crucial vote in the European parliament yesterday.
Drive-by paintballers attack women in Grozny over 'non-Islamic' clothes
Friday, 9 July 2010
Chechnya's kremlin-backed President, Ramzan Kadyrov, has endorsed the growing practice of shooting at women in the street with paintball guns if they are not wearing traditional Muslim clothing.
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2 Exclusive: The unseen photographs that throw new light on the First World War
3 Named after Tony in the land where Blair is king
4 News blackout over Italian wiretap law
5 Lopez gig in Turkish Cyprus cancelled
6 Exploding bubble gum kills student
7 Sarajevo draws new generation of tourists, 15 years after war
8 Sicilian idyll struck by the curse of black gold
9 Drive-by paintballers attack women in Grozny over 'non-Islamic' clothes
10 Family of Spain's dead great poet Hernandez want name cleared
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1 Sarajevo draws new generation of tourists, 15 years after war
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5 Sicilian idyll struck by the curse of black gold
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