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19 Episodes of this Podcast:
Street fashion fair is back in Berlin
Published: 2009-07-03 12:32:00World 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
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The Netherlands proposes limiting cannabis coffee shop sales
Published: 2009-07-03 12:30:00A 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.
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EU nations protest jointly over trial threat for detained British embassy staff
Published: 2009-07-03 12:29:00Britain 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.
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Sole Comoros crash survivor returns to France
Published: 2009-07-02 15:37:00Bahia 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.
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A general amnesty is to be declared for victims of Nazi military courts
Published: 2009-07-02 12:41:00Ahead 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.
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Veteran Japanese diplomat is to be the new head of UN’s nuclear watchdog
Published: 2009-07-02 12:32:00Veteran 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.
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EU unbends over fruit and vegetables
Published: 2009-07-01 12:23:00European 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.
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UN seeks to demolish migrants' myth of a British Eldorado
Published: 2009-07-01 12:19:00The 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.
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Greece tries to kick the habit
Published: 2009-07-01 12:15:00Greeks 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.
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EU entry bid puts pressure on Turkish military
Published: 2009-06-30 13:32:00Turkey 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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