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World leading street fashion fair Bread and Butter returns to Berlin, becoming the first major event to be staged in what used to be Tempelhof Airport, made famous by the Berlin Airlift
...MOREA Dutch government commission has proposed that coffee shops that sell cannabis should cater in future mainly for local people and not bulk-buying drugs tourists from abroad.
...MOREBritain is told that detained embassy staff in Teheran would face trial for their alleged role in post-election unrest, while EU countries summoned Iranian envoys to protest against the detentions.
...MOREBahia Bakari, the only known survivor among the 153 people on the Yemenia Airbus A310 jet was brought home on a French medical plane on Thursday.
...MOREAhead of a September general election, German Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition plans to pass a law to rehabilitate all the people who were branded as traitors by the Nazis during World War Two.
...MOREVeteran Japanese diplomat Yukiya Amano has been elected as the next director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, giving him a pivotal ruling in dealing with Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
...MOREEuropean supermarkets welcome the bendy cucumber and knobbly carrot back to their shelves as the EU overhauls rules dictating the exact size and shape of fruit and vegetables.
...MOREThe United Nations refugee agency has set up an office in the French port of Calais to encourage some of the hundreds of migrants sheltering there not to try to get to Britain.
...MOREGreeks have now been banned from smoking at work and inside bars, but many question how the measure will work in Europe's heaviest smoking nation.
...MORETurkey could prosecute the leaders of a 1980 military coup in a sign of the shift in the relationship between civilian leaders and generals, as the country edges towards EU democratic norms.
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