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Putin approves new cyber-security doctrine 06 Dec 2016 - 02:02 pm
Russian President Vladimir Putin walks along a department of tube-rolling mill in Chelyabinsk on December 5, 2016, during his working visit to the region.  AFP / SPUTNIK / Alexey DRUZHININ
Merkel draws up battle lines ahead of 2017 election bid 06 Dec 2016 - 01:10 pm
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France raises risk level on bird flu to "high" 06 Dec 2016 - 11:47 am
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Radical Islam breeds in deprived corner of Serbia 06 Dec 2016 - 10:59 am
A picture shows the old town of Novi Pazar in southern Serbia on November 2, 2016. AFP / ELVIS BARUKCIC
Iceland plays the tourism card, for better for worse 06 Dec 2016 - 10:40 am
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Merkel to ready troops for 2017 election battle 06 Dec 2016 - 08:35 am
Executive members of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party (L-R) CDU leader in Rhineland-Palatinate Julia Kloeckner, CDU Secretary General Peter Tauber, Hesse's State Premier Volker Bouffier, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, CDU leader in Baden-Wuert
Manuel Valls, a tough-talker with French presidential ambitions 05 Dec 2016 - 07:34 pm
Francois Hollande and Manuel Valls attend a meeting following Brexi at the Elysee Palace in Paris, June 24, 2016 (REUTERS / Alain Jocard)
In Italy referendum, pollsters finally got it right - sort of 05 Dec 2016 - 03:46 pm
A man holds a banner reading
Spain smashes fake police ring that robbed tourists 05 Dec 2016 - 02:49 pm
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Britain's Supreme Court begins hearings on Brexit challenge 05 Dec 2016 - 02:20 pm
Protesters wearing judges' wigs and robes ride an open top bus past the Supreme Court ahead of the challenge against a court ruling that Theresa May's government requires parliamentary approval to start the process of leaving the European Union, in Parlia
German dispatcher jailed for fatal train crash 05 Dec 2016 - 01:46 pm
(FILES) This file photo taken on February 9, 2016 shows firefighters and emergency doctors working at the site of a train accident near Bad Aibling, southern Germany. A German court on December 5, 2016 sentenced a rail dispatcher to three and a half years
Swiss restaurant still in world's top 10 despite chef's suicide 05 Dec 2016 - 12:51 pm
A picture taken on May 15, 2012 shows Benoit Violier, chef of the Restaurant de l'Hôtel de Ville in Crissier near Lausanne, Switzerland (AFP Photo/Marcel Gillieron).
Italy referendum: three scenarios for what happens next 05 Dec 2016 - 08:53 am
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Italy's Renzi quits after crushing referendum defeat 05 Dec 2016 - 08:50 am
Italy's Prime Minister Matteo Renzi announces his resignation during a press conference at the Palazzo Chigi following the results of the vote for a referendum on constitutional reforms, on December 4, 2016 in Rome. AFP / Andreas SOLARO
Analysis: Italy's referendum: A specter haunting Europe? 04 Dec 2016 - 07:39 pm
Francesca Pascale (L), fiancee of Italy's former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, leaves a polling station after voting for a referendum on constitutional reforms, on December 4, 2016 in Rome. Italians began voting today in a constitutional referendum on
Bowing out, Hollande leaves successor to fix French economy 04 Dec 2016 - 06:17 pm
French Socialist Party First Secretary Jean-Christophe Cambadelis (C) gives Francois Hollande standing ovation during the convention of the Belle Alliance Populaire (Nice Popular Union), a gathering aiming at uniting democrats, socialists, ecologists, int
Three women shot dead by gunman in Finland town 04 Dec 2016 - 04:24 pm
Police investigators work at the area were three people were killed in a shooting incident at a restaurant in Imatra, Eastern Finland after midnight on December 4, 2016. / Reuters.
Five Ukraine police killed in friendly fire mix-up 04 Dec 2016 - 04:16 pm
An armed policeman guards as the police experts examine crime scene in the small town of Knyazychy, some 30 kilometres east of Kiev, on December 4, 2016.
Five Ukrainian police were killed by friendly fire on December 4, 2016 in a deadly accident at a cri