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Police in Frankfurt cleared hundreds of protesters who set up camp outside the European Central Bank in October as they prepare for as many as 30,000 anti-capitalist activists to besiege Germany's banking capital for four days of rallies.
- UN monitors held by Syrian rebels
Rebel fighters said they were holding UN monitors for their own safety in the central Syrian town of Khan Sheikhoun today after their car was damaged in what one of the monitors said was an explosion.
- Strauss-Kahn countersues hotel maid
Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has filed a $1 million countersuit against the hotel maid who accused him of sexual assault, costing him his job and any chance of being elected president of France.
- Man sets himself alight at Breivik trial
A man set himself on fire on today outside an Oslo courthouse where the Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik is on trial for murdering 77 people last July, police said.
- Tymoshenko court appeal delayed
A Ukrainian court delayed hearings today into former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko's appeal against last year's abuse-of-office conviction, a verdict seen by many Western govvernments as politically motivated.
- EU airstrikes target Somali pirates
The European Union’s naval force off the Somali coastline has carried out its first airstrikes against pirate targets on shore.
- 'Mossad agent' hanged in Iran
Iran has hanged a man it said was an agent for Israeli intelligence agency Mossad whom it convicted of killing one of its nuclear scientists in 2010, Iranian state media reported today.
- Greece calls election as talks fail
Greece abandoned a nine-day hunt for a government today and called a new election that threatens to hasten the nation's slide towards bankruptcy and a future outside the euro zone.
- Brooks charged over phone hacking
Former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks has been charged with perverting the course of justice over a phone hacking scandal at one of the group’s newspapers.
- Hollande 'will work' with Merkel
Newly elected French president Francois Hollande said this evening he will work with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other European countries for the good of the bloc.
- Romney's jobs record under attack
US president Barack Obama's campaign has released a video calling Mitt Romney's private equity firm a job-killing "vampire" that ran a steel mill into the ground, signalling a new effort to carve into Mr Romney's image of corporate success.
- EU condemns Israel on settlements
Israeli settlement building and curbs on economic development in the occupied West Bank risk wrecking Palestinian hopes of creating their own state, the European Union said today.
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