Turkey warns it will take any necessary measure to protect itself after two car bombs exploded in a town on its border with Syria.
Category Archive: Europe
May 11
For Cleveland women, ordeal of recovery begins now
Year after year, the clock ticked by and the calendar marched forward, carrying the three women further from the real world and pulling them deeper into an isolated nightmare.
May 11
G7 says Japan playing by currency rules
AYLESBURY, England (AP) — Japan convinced its partners in the Group of Seven leading industrial economies Saturday that it was not manipulating its currency as part of a bold attempt to get its economy out of a near two-decade period of stagnation.
May 11
Pro-Berlusconi rally in Italy draws cheers, jeers
ROME (AP) — Political supporters of ex-Premier Silvio Berlusconi are rallying in a northern Italian city to protest the media mogul’s recent conviction by a Milan appeals court for tax fraud.
May 11
Blasts kill dozens in Turkish town
Car bombs kill at least 40 people and injure 100 in the Turkish town of Reyhanli, near the Syrian border, Turkey’s interior minister says.
May 11
Man kills Milan passerby with pickaxe, 4 wounded
ROME (AP) — An immigrant from Ghana went on a rampage with a pickaxe in Milan at dawn Saturday, killing a passerby and wounding four others in an apparently random attack, police said.
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- Chinese premier criticizes EU move on trade measures
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