Pope leads Holy Week Easter rituals
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Rome - Pope Benedict XVI washed the feet of 12 priests during a Holy Thursday Last Supper Mass - one of a series of traditional Roman Catholic Holy Week rituals leading to Easter Sunday. In the late afternoon ceremony at Rome's Basilica of St John Lateran, the pontiff performed the rite which re-enacts Jesus' similar gesture of humility to his...
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Italian Northern League leader Umberto Bossi resigns
05.04.2012 18:57 3062146 views 0 comments
Leading Italian populist politician Umberto Bossi has resigned as head of the Northern League after a financial scandal engulfed the party. The Northern League is the only party in opposition to the current...
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Berlusconi ally quits in corruption scandal
05.04.2012 18:50 2943842 views 0 comments
ROME (AP) — The firebrand founder of a populist, Italian anti-immigrant party, whose crucial support kept Silvio Berlusconi in power in three governments, resigned Thursday amid a widening corruption scandal over party funds. Umberto Bossi tendered his resignation as Northern League secretary, the top post, at a summit of party officials in Milan and repeatedly rebuffed pleas by his colleagues to change his mind, said a League statement. In a show of support for Bossi, 70, who made a stunning comeback after a 2004 stroke left...
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Spain Becomes Focus as Euro Debt Fears Return
05.04.2012 18:49 3304734 views 0 comments
MADRID (AP) — Rising concerns over Spain's economy and its ability to handle its debts sent its cost of borrowing higher Thursday, sparking fears that Europe's debt crisis is flaring up again after a brief respite. Connect With Us on Twitter Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking news and headlines. Twitter List: Reporters and Editors Spain has become the focus of investors concerns with many worried about the ability of the government to push through a big austerity program at a time when its economy is heading for a return to recession and unemployment stands at around 23 percent. A disappointing set of Spanish bond auctions on Wednesday — where it managed to raise...
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Flames cause automatic shutdown of French nuclear reactor
05.04.2012 18:43 3242285 views 0 comments
Paris - Two flames set off the fire alarm Thursday at a nuclear power plant in northern France, causing the automatic shutdown of one of the plant's...
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Austria Leans on ECB Veteran to Fix Broken Volksbanken
05.04.2012 18:37 2461172 views 0 comments
Austria tapped a former European Central Bank executive to join the team fixing Oesterreichische Volksbanken AG (VBPS) in a sweeping board revamp at the lender partly nationalized after years of losses from bad debts. The Alpine republic named Gertrude Tumpel-Gugerell, a member of the ECB Executive Board from 2003 to 2011, as one of four candidates for Volksbanken’s new nine-member supervisory board, according to the candidate list released to shareholders today. Tumpel-Gugerell, who was vice governor of the Austrian central bank before her ECB job, may become...
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Win a pair of flights with Monarch to Italy
05.04.2012 18:32 2333125 views 0 comments
You could be jetting off on one of Monarch’s new flights to discover the delights of Milan, Rome, Verona or Venice in Italy - the choice is yours! To be in with a chance of winning simply fill your details in below: Monarch, the scheduled leisure airline, operates flights to Croatia, Cyprus,...
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Ferdinand Porsche, Sports Car Designer, Dies at 76
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FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, the design chief credited with the classic 911 sports car and grandson of the automaker's founder, has died at age 76. Connect With Us on Twitter Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking news and headlines. Twitter List: Reporters and Editors Carmaker Porsche AG said Porsche died Thursday in Salzburg, Austria. No cause was provided. Porsche, known as F.A. to his colleagues, was head of the Porsche design studio in the early 1960s when the company developed the sleek 911 model that remains its brand-defining product. The car is now in its seventh version, and its sloping roofline, long, low hood and prominent headlights have...
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IMF: Portugal Is on Track but Big Risks Remain
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LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Bailed-out Portugal's economic recovery program is proceeding as planned but "formidable challenges" stand in the country's path amid a steep recession and market misgivings about Europe's response to its debt crisis, the International Monetary Fund said Thursday. Connect With Us on Twitter Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking news and headlines. Twitter List: Reporters and Editors Portugal's debt-laden economy was engulfed by the debt crisis crippling the 17 countries that use the euro last year. It followed Greece and Ireland in taking an international bailout after worried investors began charging unaffordable amounts to lend the country money,...
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US to sink ghost ship dislodged by Japan tsunami
05.04.2012 18:29 2648934 views 0 comments
By MARK THIESSEN and RACHEL D'ORO Associated PressAssociated PressPosted: 04/05/2012 07:30:30 AM PDTApril 5, 2012 4:1 PM GMTUpdated: 04/05/2012 09:01:26 AM PDT OVER THE GULF OF ALASKA—The U.S. Coast Guard plans to use cannon fire to sink a...
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U.S. unemployment claims hit 4-year low of 357K
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By Christopher S. Rugaber The Associated PressAssociated PressPosted: 04/05/2012 08:40:53 AM PDTApril 5, 2012 3:43 PM GMTUpdated: 04/05/2012 08:42:57 AM PDT FILE - Martina Ryberg, right, of Plymouth State University talks with Tara Rossetti of On Call International during a job fair for college students on April 4, 2012...
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French elections: What you need to know
05.04.2012 18:21 3036813 views 0 comments
France's 2012 presidential election - to be held in two rounds on 22 April and 6 May - is becoming one of the most...
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France election: Sarkozy writes manifesto letter
05.04.2012 18:21 2534620 views 0 comments
Nicolas Sarkozy has announced he has written a letter to the...
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Berlusconi Ally Quits in Corruption Scandal
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Connect With Us on Twitter Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking news and headlines. Twitter List: Reporters and Editors ROME (AP) — An official of Italy's anti-immigrant Northern League party says Silvio Berlusconi's longtime political ally has quit as party chief amid a widening corruption scandal. Umberto Bossi, the League's founder and firebrand populist, quit the top post of party secretary during a summit in Milan on Thursday, according to Matteo Salvini told Radio Padania, the League's radio network. Salvini quoted Bossi as saying that wrongdoers in the scandal involving alleged skimming of party funds should "pay" for their errors. Bossi himself has denied wrongdoing....
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Germany tries to convince Swiss banks to play by its rules
05.04.2012 18:10 2553868 views 0 comments
Banking secrecy is one of Switzerland’s most coveted...
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Barney McKenna, last of original Dubliners, dies
05.04.2012 18:07 1237603 views 0 comments
DUBLIN (AP) — Friends and authorities say "Banjo" Barney McKenna, the last original member of the Irish folk band The...
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Tributes in Greece to pensioner who killed himself
05.04.2012 17:45 1822258 views 0 comments
Greeks have been holding a vigil at the spot in the capital, Athens, where a pensioner shot himself, apparently in despair over austerity cuts. People stood...
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Greeks on unrest after pensioner suicide
05.04.2012 17:45 550801 views 0 comments
Protesters clashed with riot police in Athens after a pensioner shot himself dead outside the Greek...
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Italy's Northern League leader steps down amid fraud probe
05.04.2012 17:42 2741101 views 0 comments
Rome - Umberto Bossi, the leader of Italy's Northern League party and a long-term ally of...
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Barney McKenna, Last of Original Dubliners, Dies
05.04.2012 17:37 2707077 views 0 comments
Connect With Us on Twitter Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking news and headlines. Twitter List: Reporters and Editors mckenna received a standing ovation at his final dublin performance wednesday.DUBLIN (AP) — Friends and authorities say "Banjo" Barney McKenna, the last original member of the Irish folk band The Dubliners, has died. He was 72 and had just marked his 50th year with the band. Eyewitnesses say McKenna was drinking tea with friends in his home Thursday and appeared to fall asleep. He couldn't be revived and was pronounced dead at a Dublin hospital. McKenna was considered the most influential banjo player in Irish folk music. He spent a half-century performing,...
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