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Yellow vest protests hit with police water cannon, tear gas in Paris 14 Jan 2019 - 06:55 pm
Firefighters evacuate an injured person on a stretcher after the explosion of a bakery on the corner of the streets Saint-Cecile and Rue de Trevise in central Paris on January 12, 2019. AFP / Thomas Samson
Austrian police arrest 19-year-old Syrian for teen's killing 14 Jan 2019 - 03:38 pm
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Italian ex-militant extradited and jailed after decades on run 14 Jan 2019 - 02:39 pm
Italian former communist militant Cesare Battisti (C), wanted in Rome for four murders attributed to a far-left group in the 1970s, is escorted by Italian Police officers after stepping off a plane coming from Bolivia and chartered by Italian authorities,
Merkel's CDU successor laments "crusades" against diesel 14 Jan 2019 - 11:52 am
CDU party leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer attends a strategy meeting of Germany's governing Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party in Potsdam, Germany, January 14, 2019. REUTERS/Axel Schmidt
Fugitive Italian ex-militant Battisti extradited from Bolivia 14 Jan 2019 - 08:52 am
A picture handout by the Italian Interior Ministry clicked and released by the Polizia di Stato on January 13, 2019, shows former far-left Italian militant Cesare Battisti sitting aboard a plane chartered by the Italian government, prior to taking off fro
Border plan sparks fear in Kosovo's Serb enclaves 13 Jan 2019 - 10:02 pm
A man walks next to the portrait of the Serbian President displayed at the office of a Serbian political party in the town of Gracanica near Pristina, on December 29, 2018. AFP / Armend Nimani
Reluctant reformer Tsipras keen to make Balkans history with Macedonia deal 13 Jan 2019 - 08:33 pm
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras during the European Union summit to discuss the ongoing refugee in Brussels on March 17, 2016. AFP/ John Thys
3 Killed and another lost due to snowstorms in Austria 13 Jan 2019 - 07:10 pm
Firefighters walk at the valley station of the Hochkar cable car at 1380 m altitude on January 13, 2019 in Hochkar.  / ALEX HALADA / AFP
Paris gas blast toll rises to four after body found in rubble 13 Jan 2019 - 03:13 pm
A man lays flowers outside the Paris Fire station in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, in tribute to the two firefighters killed the day before in a powerful gas explosion which tore through a building in central Paris on January 13, 2019.  AFP / Thomas SA
Cesare Battisti, wanted for murder, a life on the run 13 Jan 2019 - 02:48 pm
FILE PHOTO: Italian former leftist guerrilla Cesare Battisti sits in a taxi next to his lawyer Igor Tamasauskas as they leave the headquarters of the Federal Police in Sao Paulo March 13, 2015. REUTERS/Nacho Doce/File photo
Greek defence minister quits over Macedonia name deal, coalition in doubt 13 Jan 2019 - 01:29 pm
Greek Defense Minister and coalition partner Panos Kammenos leaves the Maximos Mansion after a meeting with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in Athens on January 13, 2019. (AFP / ANGELOS )
Two firefighters killed as gas leak explosion rocks central Paris 12 Jan 2019 - 04:20 pm
A person is evacuated by firefighters from an apartment after the explosion of a bakery on the corner of the streets Saint-Cecile and Rue de Trevise in central Paris on January 12, 2019.   AFP / Thomas SAMSON
Thousands march in 9th straight French yellow vest protests 12 Jan 2019 - 03:33 pm
People march in the streets of center Paris, on January 12, 2019 during an anti-government demonstration called by the Yellow Vest
Workers in Alps use break in weather to clear snow 12 Jan 2019 - 02:02 pm
.AFP / JEAN-PIERRE CLATOT
Paris police: Several injured in bakery gas explosion 12 Jan 2019 - 11:57 am
Firefighters evacuate an injured person on a stretcher after the explosion of a bakery on the corner of the streets Saint-Cecile and Rue de Trevise in central Paris on January 12, 2019. AFP / Thomas Samson
Macedonian lawmakers set to vote to change country's name 11 Jan 2019 - 08:12 pm
Supporters of the movement boycotting the deal with neighbouring Greece to change the country's name to the Republic of North Macedonia protest in front of the parliament building during parliamentary debates on constitutional amendments related to the na
France bracing for bigger, more violent 'yellow vests' demos 11 Jan 2019 - 07:00 pm
Paris police chief Michel Delpuech said he expected demonstrators in Paris to outnumber the estimated 3,500 that attempted to march on the National Assembly last week, and predicted they would be
Lying on unexploded shell 'ill-advised' Dutchman told 10 Jan 2019 - 05:42 pm
FILE PHOTO: A defused unexploded World War II bomb found in Berlin (Reuters)