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Europe has decided to fight the epidemic of expanding waistlines.
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Jacques Chirac’s approval ratings rose from 16 percent to 24 percent.
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The US has been holding a suspected Al Qaeda leader accused of being involved in the Sept. 11 attacks and planning the 2004 Madrid train bombings in a secret jail for the last year, Spain’s El Pais newspaper reported Sunday.
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The European Union pledged up to seven thousands troops for an expanded UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon.
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France agreed to send 2,000 soldiers to keep the peace in Lebanon.
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Britain’s biggest theme park canceled “National Muslim Fun Day,” due to a lack of interest.
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French President Jacques Chirac pointed out that the world is dancing on a volcano.
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Romania has become the latest country to announce it is planning to withdraw its troops from Iraq.
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British men show far more loyalty, commitment and self-sacrifice towards their favorite football team than towards their partners, a study showed.

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Iran is sponsoring a competition for Holocaust cartoons in retaliation for Mohammad cartoons, one of which depicted him with a bomb in his turban, which first ran in Denmark last September.
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French police realized that they had spent the last two years trying to identify a female murder victim–whose skeleton was found during a low tide in Plouezoc’h–who actually died in the 15th century. “We reckon it was pirates,” said a policeman.
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Spain and Canada legalized gay marriage.

Iran said they won’t make any nuclear weapons if Europe gives them lots of money.

Twelve days after Mr Calipari’s death, Mr Berlusconi said he would begin withdrawing his country’s troops from Iraq in September under pressure from public opinion. However, after a telephone conversation with President George Bush, he changed his mind.
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A US military investigation has cleared the soldiers who shot dead a high-ranking Italian intelligence agent last month in Iraq. The intelligence agent, Nicola Calipari, died on March 4 after US troops opened fire on the car that was also carrying Giuliana Sgrena - the Italian journalist who just been freed from captivity.

In a front-page editorial in her newspaper Il Manifesto Sgrena wrote today “After the apologies comes the slap in the face.” Italy maintains that that car carrying Calipari and Sgrena had been driving slowly, received no warning and that Italy had advised U.S. authorities of their mission to evacuate Sgrena from Iraq.
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Doctors replaced a man’s penis with one grown on his forearm.
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In Rome, journalist Giuliana Sgrena has been released from a military hospital where she was being treated for a gunshot wound she suffered when US forces shot up the car bringing her to freedom after a month being held hostage in Iraq. The head of Italy’s Foreign Military Intelligence Nicola Calipari was killed in the attack when he shielded Sgrena from the bullets.
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Bush will be offering Europe an olive branch this week, plus a whirlwind charm offensive by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Rice said the United States “stands ready to work with Europe on our common agenda, and Europe must stand ready to work with America.” On the first overseas trip of his second term, the president also hopes to increase pressure on Iran and Syria.

The world’s first mad goat was diagnosed in France.