Saturday, 27 April 2013 08:43
Russian law enforcement officers have detained 140 people at a Muslim prayer room in the capital, Moscow, as part of a search for extremist groups, Russian news agencies have quoted federal officials as saying.
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Russian law enforcement officers have detained 140 people at a Muslim prayer room in the capital, Moscow, as part of a search for extremist groups, Russian news agencies have quoted federal officials as saying.

Britain is set to honour Winston Churchill, its revered war-time prime minister, with a banknote featuring his portrait and the famous declaration: "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat".

Three British men along with an associate have been jailed for planning mass suicide attacks in the UK in collaboration with al-Qaeda.

A German woman claims she was one of Adolf Hitler's food tasters but that, for more than half a century, she did not tell anybody what she did during the second world war.

Iceland goes to the polls in a general election expected to punish the ruling Social Democrat coalition over the austerity measures to bring the economy back from the brink.

Thirty-eight have been killed after a fire raged through a psychiatric hospital outside Moscow, Russian emergency officials and media reports said.

Jailed Pussy Riot punk-rocker Nadezhda Tolokonnikova has pleaded to be released on parole from her two-year sentence, arguing that she had already spent enough time in prison for the group's protest against President Vladimir Putin.

Twenty-nine people have been injured in clashes between police and protesters in the latest street demonstrations sparked by anger at Spain's economic crisis, emergency services said.

The number of unemployed people in France climbed to new record levels in March, according to official data.

A Russian court has handed down $13,000 worth of fines against the election monitor Golos, in the first ruling under a new "foreign agent" law that observers say will lead to the closure of many organisations across the country.
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