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Romania countinues poultry cull amid bird flu fearsEuropean health officials are bracing themselves for a possible pandemic after tests showed bird… 17/10/05 08:10 CET
Italy vote overshadowed by Mafia style killingA senior politician in Italy’s Calabria region was shot dead as he voted in the opposition… 17/10/05 08:10 CET
Girl found after eight days under rubbleA young girl has been found alive amid the rubble of the Kashmir earthquake. She had been buried… 17/10/05 08:10 CET
China celebrates as astronauts come back down to earthIt was the moment the most populous nation in the world had been waiting for, and a huge cheer went… 17/10/05 08:10 CET
Prodi set for comeback but violence marrs Italian voteEarly results indicate former European Commission chief, Romano Prodi has been chosen to lead… 17/10/05 08:10 CET
Count continues in Iraq as Bush praises voteIt is another day of counting in Iraq after millions voted on the country’s new constitution on… 17/10/05 08:10 CET
Bird flu creeps west into EUBird flu has reached the European Union with at least one confirmed case in Greece, while the… 17/10/05 07:10 CET
Merkel’s ministers meet the pressThe German right has presented the eight men and women who will become their ministers in the grand… 17/10/05 07:10 CET
US announces airstrikes on insurgents in IraqThe US military says it killed around 70 militants in a series of air strikes in and near Iraq’s… 17/10/05 06:10 CET
Trouble in Azerbaijan ahead of opposition leader’s returnThe anticipated return to Azerbaijan of an opposition leader has sparked troubled in the capital… 17/10/05 06:10 CET
Italy’s left chooses Prodi to challenge BerlusconiItaly is in line for a re-run of its 1996 election and a showdown between Romano Prodi and Silvio… 17/10/05 06:10 CET
Prodi sweeps Italian centre-left primaryIt was all smiles from the winner of Italy’s first ever primary vote to select a candidate for a… 17/10/05 01:10 CET
EU oficials in Turkey play down human threatEuropean Union officials helping Turkey investigate an outbreak of bird flu say there is no… 17/10/05 01:10 CET
WFP calls on governments to donate more for anti-poverty driveMonday is the United Nations’ International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, but for people… 17/10/05 01:10 CET
Chechen leader claims Nalchik attackRebel Chechen leader Shamil Basayev is reported to have claimed responsibility for last week’s… 17/10/05 01:10 CET
Back on Earth to a heroes’ welcomeThe two astronauts of China’s second manned space flight emerged smiling from their capsule after… 17/10/05 01:10 CET
Anger over Japanese PM’s visit to war shrineA visit by Japan’s prime minister Junichiro Koizumi to a shrine honouring his country’s war dead… 17/10/05 01:10 CET
