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Italy — Tensions and cultural misunderstandings ran high on Saturday after an American college student was found guilty of murdering her British housemate. Rather than clarifying the saga of what prosecutors said was a drug-fueled orgy gone fatally awry, the...

Greece's new socialist government will deploy 6,000 police onto the streets of Athens on Sunday to avert a repeat of the severe rioting last year that hit the capital and major cities. Anarchists and students have planned protests across the...

Nearly a week after Switzerland banned the building of minarets on mosques, Iran warns of the rising tide of Islamophobia in some European countries. In a vote that was seen as "biased" and "anti-Islamic" in the Muslim world, Switzerland approved...

Lawmakers from Turkey�s pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) will resign from parliament if the Constitutional Court shuts down the party on charges of separatism, the party�s chairman said yesterday. The Constitutional Court will hear a case to shut down the...

A Stockholm department store says it won't carry a new line of North Korean-made designer jeans because it doesn't want ties to the isolated communist nation. PUB store spokesman Rene Stephansen says it is "a political issue that PUB doesn't...

Amanda Knox , a U.S. exchange student in Italy, and her Italian ex-boyfriend, were convicted Friday of killing her housemate. Knox, 22, was given a 26-year sentence, the Italian news agency Ansa reported...The families of Knox, Sollecito and the victim,...

But it appears they will miss the goal of wrapping up a new agreement when the current one runs out on Saturday. Obama and Medvedev voiced their "firm intention to ensure that a new treaty on strategic arms enter into...

A jailed Mafia hit-man linked Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to the Cosa Nostra on Friday, telling a court that a godfather convicted for a 1993 bombing campaign had boasted of his links to the media mogul. Berlusconi says biased courts...

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown 's inability to meet with French President Nicolas Sarkozy prompted Sarkozy to cancel his trip to London, diplomats said. Diplomatic sources told The Daily Telegraph that Sarkozy asked about visiting London when he met Brown...

The India-Russia annual summit is the principal vehicle to advance the strategic partnership, he said adding every such summit has contributed to this process. ''We have seen this over the decades, beginning with Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru�s first visit in...