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Hundreds of flights axed as fresh strike hits German airports 15 Jan 2019 - 12:17 pm
Members of Germany's Verdi union hold a banner reading
German airport security staff begin one-day strike 15 Jan 2019 - 10:09 am
Stranded passenger get information at a check-in desk of German airline Lufthansa during a strike of security personnel over higher wages at Germany's largest airport in Frankfurt, Germany, January 15, 2019. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach
Decision time as British MPs vote on Brexit deal 15 Jan 2019 - 09:32 am
A video grab from footage broadcast by the UK Parliament's Parliamentary Recording Unit (PRU) shows Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond (R) gesturing as Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May makes a statement to the House of Commons in Lon
Czech court jails man for train attacks staged to blame Muslims 14 Jan 2019 - 07:17 pm
A pedestrian walks past the statue of a giant rotating head of writer Franz Kafka by Czech artist David Cerny on July 26, 2016 in Prague. AFP/Michal Cizek
Far-left groups in Europe in the 70s and 80s 14 Jan 2019 - 07:17 pm
Italian former communist militant Cesare Battisti (C), wanted in Rome for four murders attributed to a far-left group in the 1970s, is escorted by Italian Police officers after stepping off a plane coming from Bolivia and chartered by Italian authorities,
French police on trial for alleged rape in former headquarters 14 Jan 2019 - 06:55 pm
This file photo taken on August 6, 2014 shows the entrance of Paris criminal investigation department headquarters, located at the 36 Quai des Orfevres in the French capital.  AFP / Bertrand Guay
Yellow vest protests hit with police water cannon, tear gas in Paris 14 Jan 2019 - 06:55 pm
Firefighters evacuate an injured person on a stretcher after the explosion of a bakery on the corner of the streets Saint-Cecile and Rue de Trevise in central Paris on January 12, 2019. AFP / Thomas Samson
Austrian police arrest 19-year-old Syrian for teen's killing 14 Jan 2019 - 03:38 pm
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Italian ex-militant extradited and jailed after decades on run 14 Jan 2019 - 02:39 pm
Italian former communist militant Cesare Battisti (C), wanted in Rome for four murders attributed to a far-left group in the 1970s, is escorted by Italian Police officers after stepping off a plane coming from Bolivia and chartered by Italian authorities,
Merkel's CDU successor laments "crusades" against diesel 14 Jan 2019 - 11:52 am
CDU party leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer attends a strategy meeting of Germany's governing Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party in Potsdam, Germany, January 14, 2019. REUTERS/Axel Schmidt
Fugitive Italian ex-militant Battisti extradited from Bolivia 14 Jan 2019 - 08:52 am
A picture handout by the Italian Interior Ministry clicked and released by the Polizia di Stato on January 13, 2019, shows former far-left Italian militant Cesare Battisti sitting aboard a plane chartered by the Italian government, prior to taking off fro
Border plan sparks fear in Kosovo's Serb enclaves 13 Jan 2019 - 10:02 pm
A man walks next to the portrait of the Serbian President displayed at the office of a Serbian political party in the town of Gracanica near Pristina, on December 29, 2018. AFP / Armend Nimani
Reluctant reformer Tsipras keen to make Balkans history with Macedonia deal 13 Jan 2019 - 08:33 pm
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras during the European Union summit to discuss the ongoing refugee in Brussels on March 17, 2016. AFP/ John Thys
3 Killed and another lost due to snowstorms in Austria 13 Jan 2019 - 07:10 pm
Firefighters walk at the valley station of the Hochkar cable car at 1380 m altitude on January 13, 2019 in Hochkar.  / ALEX HALADA / AFP
Paris gas blast toll rises to four after body found in rubble 13 Jan 2019 - 03:13 pm
A man lays flowers outside the Paris Fire station in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, in tribute to the two firefighters killed the day before in a powerful gas explosion which tore through a building in central Paris on January 13, 2019.  AFP / Thomas SA
Cesare Battisti, wanted for murder, a life on the run 13 Jan 2019 - 02:48 pm
FILE PHOTO: Italian former leftist guerrilla Cesare Battisti sits in a taxi next to his lawyer Igor Tamasauskas as they leave the headquarters of the Federal Police in Sao Paulo March 13, 2015. REUTERS/Nacho Doce/File photo
Greek defence minister quits over Macedonia name deal, coalition in doubt 13 Jan 2019 - 01:29 pm
Greek Defense Minister and coalition partner Panos Kammenos leaves the Maximos Mansion after a meeting with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in Athens on January 13, 2019. (AFP / ANGELOS )
Two firefighters killed as gas leak explosion rocks central Paris 12 Jan 2019 - 04:20 pm
A person is evacuated by firefighters from an apartment after the explosion of a bakery on the corner of the streets Saint-Cecile and Rue de Trevise in central Paris on January 12, 2019.   AFP / Thomas SAMSON

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