Germany has barred the makers of a movie about a plot to kill Adolf Hitler from filming at German military sites because its star Tom Cruise is a Scientologist, the Defence Ministry said on Monday.
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France is holding a 15 nation conference in Paris to try and figure out what to do about Darfur. The African Union is not attending.
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Large teams of newly trained suicide bombers are being sent to the United States and Europe, according to evidence contained on a new videotape.
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The EU said today it would resume financial aid to the new Fatah-led Palestinian government, as part of international efforts to isolate Hamas in its Gaza stronghold. Meanwhile, Israel has blocked all cargo shipments into Gaza where supplies of fuel, food and medicine are running low. Many areas of Gaza have been without electricity since last week’s fighting.
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The Miss Spain beauty contest changed its rules to allow transsexuals and mothers to compete.
“Of course, their morphology must match their civil status,”
the pageant organizer said.
[old news]
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In Italy, the trial begins today for twenty-six Americans and five Italians accused of kidnapping a Muslim cleric from the streets of Milan in 2003.
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Around 10,000 anti-capitalist protesters clashed with police and blocked roads to a Baltic resort where world leaders gathered on Wednesday for a summit.
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Vladimir Putin said that Russia intends to aim its missile systems - potentially nuclear weapons - at targets in Europe in retaliation for the U.S. decision to establish antimissile bases there. He also insisted he is the world’s only true democrat. “After the death of Mahatma Gandhi,” he said, with a smile, “I have nobody to talk to.”
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An estimated 400 police and 520 demonstrators were injured when masked protesters showered officers with rocks and beer bottles during a rally against the Group of Eight summit. At least 25 police and 20 protesters were seriously injured.
Radicals “are smashing everything in their way to pieces,” said Karsten Wolff, a police spokesman.
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The Polish government has announced plans to launch an official investigation into the sexual orientation of the Teletubbies.
[probably gay]
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The British military has announced Prince Harry will not be sent to Iraq because the situation is too unsafe.
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Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport Tuesday introduced a new security scan that sees through clothes, the first airport in the world to use the system, officials said.
[not hot]
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Hamas’s television station defied the Hamas-led Palestinian government on Friday by airing a show featuring a Mickey Mouse lookalike that urges children to support armed resistance against Israel. During one of the skits, Farfur told young viewers that he aspired to be like the slain spiritual leaders of Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood.
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Tony Blair announced on Thursday he would step down on June 27 after a decade as prime minister. President Bush said that he’d miss him.
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A Vienna Library installed an erotica hotline inside their library to raise money. Callers pay 53 cents a minute to listen to Anne Bennent read breathless passages of Victorian erotica.
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China and Russia have denied claims by Amnesty International that they are supplying arms to Sudan for use in Darfur, in breach of a UN arms embargo.
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Researchers investigating the collapse of honeybee colonies in Europe and the Americas identified several possible reasons for the catastrophe which included:
radiation from cell phones; increased solar radiation; bee AIDS; stress from cross-country travel in trucks; or imidacloprid, a pesticide banned by France in 1999 for spreading “mad bee disease.” Investors were advised to put their money in gold and corn futures to profit off the recession that may result from the disruption of the food chain caused by the vanishing bees. Grapes, which self-pollinate, and olives, which are pollinated by the wind, will not be affected by the bees’ disappearance; Christians pointed out that the Book of Revelation predicts that a famine sparing grapes and olives will precede the apocalypse.
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Iranian forces seized 15 British Royal Navy personnel who had searched a merchant ship on Friday, Britain said, triggering a diplomatic crisis at a time of heightened tensions over Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.
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Traces of Prozac were found in England’s drinking water.
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The Dutch decided that you can’t cover your face, especially with a burqa.
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