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06-10 International Herald Tribune - Europe General strike shuts transit and services in Belgium Belgium's transport network was paralyzed when a nationwide strike over the rising cost of living led to the cancellation of all high-speed international train services and brought huge disruption to travelers.
06-10 International Herald Tribune - Europe U.S. to rely on Russia for manned spaceflight The Bush administration has agreed to make a base in Russia the only place from where U.S. missions to space will start.
06-10 International Herald Tribune - Europe Recession fears pummel European stocks Stocks fell sharply across the globe Monday, with European shares plunging the most in 21 years, and the Dow ending below 10,000, as spreading problems in the world's banks increased the risk of a worldwide recession.
06-10 International Herald Tribune - Europe French open trial in arms sale to Angola Mitterrand's son and a former interior minister are charged with illegal transfer of Russian weapons during the civil war.
06-10 International Herald Tribune - Europe 3 Europeans share Nobel prize in medicine Three scientists who discovered viruses that cause cervical cancer and AIDS share the Nobel Prize in medicine this year.
06-10 International Herald Tribune - Europe One in four mammals facing extinction An "extinction crisis" is under way with one in four mammals in danger of disappearing forever because of habitat loss, hunting and climate change, a leading global conservation body warned Monday.
06-10 International Herald Tribune - Europe Chaotic day ends with the Dow Jones off 3.8 percent The Dow Jones industrials finished more than 360 points lower, dropping below the 10,000 mark for the first time in five years.
06-10 International Herald Tribune - Europe In a weak climate, U.S. dollar has muscle Stock markets are swooning, credit markets remain frozen, and some foreign officials are predicting that the U.S. will lose status as a financial superpower. And yet the dollar is surging.
06-10 International Herald Tribune - Europe Crude hits 8-month low below $90 a barrel The oil price was pressured by expectations that the global credit crisis will bring a sharp fall in oil demand.
06-10 International Herald Tribune - Europe Europe struggles to form coordinated response Since the credit crunch swept into Europe last month, EU countries have gone their separate ways in rescuing distressed banks, guaranteeing some or all deposits and suspending practices like short-selling shares.
06-10 International Herald Tribune - Europe Financial crises spread in Europe European governments were scrambling Monday to prevent a growing credit crisis from bringing down major banks and alarming savers as troubles in financial markets spread.
06-10 International Herald Tribune - Europe Stocks fall sharply in Europe and Asia; New York set to tumble Stocks tumbled Monday in Europe and Asia, and oil fell below $90 for the first time since February as fears grew that the financial crisis is spreading to the world economy.
06-10 International Herald Tribune - Europe Huge gunrunning and graft trial opens in Paris The son of a late French president, an Israeli-Russian billionaire and 40 other people charged with trafficking arms to war-riven Angola or taking kickbacks will face judges Monday in a long-awaited trial in Paris.
06-10 International Herald Tribune - Europe A German and 2 French researchers are awarded Nobel Prize in Medicine The French researchers Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier were cited for their discovery of the AIDS virus and Harald zur Hausen of Germany for finding viruses that cause cervical cancer
06-10 International Herald Tribune - Europe Russia seeks tycoon's extradition from Britain Russia has asked Britain to extradite a former oil tycoon who fled after what he said was severe harassment by the government, an investigative official said Monday.
06-10 International Herald Tribune - Europe Trans-Atlantic policy on Russia needed Obama and McCain seem to be in agreement on resisting Russian aggression. Can Europe also find a unified policy?
06-10 International Herald Tribune - Europe A Chechen avenue is named for Putin A central avenue in Grozy, the capital of the Chechnya region of Russia, was named after Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Sunday.
06-10 International Herald Tribune - Europe G-7 may consider coordinated rate cuts Finance leaders from the Group of 7 will meet in Washington on Friday as the world's wealthy nations struggle to prevent a global recession that refuses to say within U.S. borders.
05-10 International Herald Tribune - Europe Russia pullout near enclaves progresses Russian forces dismantled a checkpoint and were working on others as an Oct. 10 deadline neared for a pullout from buffer zones outside South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
05-10 International Herald Tribune - Europe Albanian migrants blending into Italian life, in unlikely places Couple working in Tuscan vineyard doubt they will ever return home.
05-10 International Herald Tribune - Europe Boris Yefimov, Russian cartoonist, dies at 109 He was despised by Hitler but greatly admired by Stalin, which counted more.
05-10 International Herald Tribune - Europe European standoff over search engine data For more than a year, European data privacy officials have been battling with American Internet search engines, trying to get them to conform to European restrictions on the storage of personal information gleaned from the Web.
05-10 International Herald Tribune - Europe China to allow short-sales and margin trading The changes will initially be conducted on a trial basis by a small number of brokerage businesses and gradually expanded to other securities companies, the China Securities Regulatory Commission said Sunday.
05-10 International Herald Tribune - Europe How an embrace of risk tripped up Fannie Mae For a time, the decision to offer riskier mortgages proved profitable, but in the end, it nearly destroyed the company and threatened to drag down the U.S. housing market and the economy.
05-10 International Herald Tribune - Europe Leaked diplomatic cable promotes 'acceptable dictator' in Afghanistan A coded French diplomatic cable leaked to a French newspaper quotes the British ambassador in Afghanistan as predicting that the NATO-led military campaign against the Taliban will fail.
05-10 International Herald Tribune - Europe Russian troops start dismantling posts in Georgia Russian troops have lowered the flag at a checkpoint in Georgian territory and Georgian officials say another post has been dismantled.
05-10 International Herald Tribune - Europe European leaders reject broad bailout but promise unity After days of squabbling, the leaders of Europe's largest economies vowed to work together to stop a growing financial panic.
05-10 International Herald Tribune - Europe At 19, plotting new path to NBA, via Europe Brandon Jennings, 19, is a basketball player, and a trailblazer of sorts. He is the first American to play professionally in Europe directly out of high school.
05-10 International Herald Tribune - Europe The medieval era goes online One of the oldest and most valuable collections of handwritten medieval books in the world, housed in the magnificent baroque halls of the library in the abbey of St. Gallen, Switzerland, is going online with the help of a $1 million grant from the Mellon
05-10 International Herald Tribune - Europe Deal to save the German lender Hypo collapses Hypo Real Estate Holding said Saturday that a $48 billion rescue plan for the company had fallen apart after private lenders withdrew support.
04-10 International Herald Tribune - Europe IMF boss urges European unity at crisis summit The head of the International Monetary Fund urged European leaders to agree a coordinated approach to deal with the worst financial crisis since the 1930s.
04-10 International Herald Tribune - Europe Europe's big banks aim to profit from Wall Street's losses Despite problems at some banks, executives at Europe's still-solvent giants see a rare opportunity to crack markets long-dominated by American firms brought low by the financial crisis.
04-10 International Herald Tribune - Europe U.S. jobs data raise red flags on spending Americans have concluded that it is tough to get a job, so expect consumer spending to be weak.
03-10 International Herald Tribune - Europe Explosion kills 7 Russians in South Ossetia The blast raised tensions in the separatist enclave days before a scheduled pullback of Russian troops from Georgian territory.
03-10 International Herald Tribune - Europe Brown shuffles cabinet to include past nemesis Peter Mandelson, the EU trade commissioner, is returning to the British cabinet as business secretary.
03-10 International Herald Tribune - Europe In modern markets, it's still Buyer Beware Markets are self-regulating only when both sides know what they're dealing in, columnist Alan Cowell writes.
03-10 International Herald Tribune - Europe Albanians adjust to Italy, in unlikeliest of places Like new shoots grafted onto an old vine, Albanian immigrants are fast becoming an essential part of Italy's most valued traditions, including winemaking.
02-10 International Herald Tribune - Europe Finnish children's site pulls shooting game An Internet game in which players roam a school and kill kindergarten students with a shotgun has been pulled from a site for Finnish children site one week after the country's worst school shooting.
02-10 International Herald Tribune - Europe Researchers revise toll in Dresden bomb raids The Allied firebombing of Dresden in 1945 killed no more than 25,000 people - far fewer than scholars' previous estimates, which ran as high as 135,000 - a special commission has found.
02-10 International Herald Tribune - Europe With manual, Europeans address extremism in prisons The document, which will be given to prison personnel, includes a list of signs that could indicate that a prisoner is becoming more radical, including the presence of a growing beard.
02-10 International Herald Tribune - Europe Dutch court extends sentences for 4 Islamic radicals An appeals court increased the prison sentences of four Islamic radicals found guilty of plotting attacks on Dutch politicians, convicting them of the additional charge of membership in a terrorist organization.
02-10 International Herald Tribune - Europe Top officer in London police force to step down The London police chief, Ian Blair, resigned Thursday after a tenure marked by controversies that included the shooting death of an innocent man following the terror attacks on the city transit system.
02-10 International Herald Tribune - Europe Ex-leader of Poland defends martial law in 1981 At the third hearing in his long-delayed trial, General Wojciech Jaruzelski told a court Thursday that his decision in 1981 to declare martial law was a necessary "evil" that averted disaster and prepared the way for democracy.
02-10 International Herald Tribune - Europe A rising tide of migrants unsettles Athens About 80,000 migrants are in Greece illegally, according to the authorities, who say the country can no longer handle the task of guarding the European Union's southeast flank.
02-10 International Herald Tribune - Europe U.S. Embassy to relocate in London The demand for more space, greater security and better energy efficiency have prompted the plan to move to the Nine Elms Opportunity Area in Wandsworth, just south of the River Thames.
02-10 International Herald Tribune - Europe Russia sees in credit crisis end of U.S. domination The Russian president said in a speech that the financial crisis in the United States should be taken as a sign that America's global economic leadership is drawing to a close and said that the world no longer needed a "megaregulator."
02-10 International Herald Tribune - Europe Putin accuses Ukraine of having assisted Georgia during war The Russian prime minister accused Ukraine of having sent weapons and military personnel to assist Georgia during its war with Russia.
02-10 International Herald Tribune - Europe In a fairy-tale village, Russian orphans thrive The founders of Kitezh, an experimental orphan community, hope that their village can be a model of reform for Russia's decrepit child welfare system.
02-10 International Herald Tribune - Europe War crimes trial begins for former commander of Yugoslav Army The UN war crimes trial of a former commander of the Yugoslav national army has begun in The Hague.
02-10 International Herald Tribune - Europe Life school offers shy Britons a road map to 'happiness' For reticent Britons, disinclined to emote in public, the London-based School of Life - which aims to offer a road map to a fuller life - works as a kind of lubricant.