| ETA declares ceasefire in Basque independence battle
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 AFP - Basque separatist fighters ETA declared a ceasefire Sunday in their flagging 42-year campaign of bombing and shooting for a homeland independent of Spain.
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| Get ready for break-up of Belgium: top minister
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 AFP - A top Belgian politician warned the country's citizens on Sunday to "get ready for the break-up of Belgium," as King Albert II seeks to relaunch knife-edge coalition talks.
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| Pakistan 126-4 against England
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 AFP - Pakistan, after losing the toss, made 126 for four against England in the first Twenty20 international on Sunday.
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| Suicide bomber kills three in southern Russia
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Reuters - At least three people were killed and 33 wounded on Sunday when a suicide bomber rammed a car packed with explosives into a military camp in Russia's southern region of Dagestan, the Defense Ministry said. |
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| Blair warns over deep-rooted radical Islam
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 AFP - Former prime minister Tony Blair warned on Sunday that the roots of radical Islam were far deeper than we think and said Al-Qaeda would have killed 300,000 on September 11, 2001 if they could.
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| Accident at German flight show kills 1
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AP - Police say the pilot of a small propeller-driven plane lost control of his aircraft while taking at a flight show in southern Germany and crashed into a group of spectators, leaving one person dead and several injured. |
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| 2 Danes fail 1st try to launch home-built rocket
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AP - Two Danish space enthusiasts have failed in their first attempt to send up a privately built rocket into space. |
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| Policeman filmed attacking middle-aged woman
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 AFP - Footage showing a police sergeant assaulting a woman as he threw her into a cell emerged on Sunday, again putting the spotlight on the behaviour of some officers.
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| Basque separatists ETA announce cease-fire
(AP) |
 AP - The Basque separatist militant group ETA declared a cease-fire in a video statement issued Sunday, suggesting it might turn to a political process in its quest for an independent homeland.
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| Vatican: stoning in Iran adultery case 'brutal'
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AP - The Vatican raised the possibility Sunday of using behind-the-scenes diplomacy to try to save the life of an Iranian widow sentenced to be stoned for adultery. |
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| Ex-UK military chief says Blair underfunded army
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AP - The former head of the British Army has accused former prime ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown of forcing the military to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan without adequate funding. |
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| Relics of Russian saint, icons stolen
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AP - A Russian news agency is reporting that three ancient icons, one of which contained relics of Russia's most venerated saint, have been stolen. |
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