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Italian police arrested a suspected mafia hitman on Thursday whose brazen killing of a man in Naples last May was caught on video and shocked the country, prompting reluctant witnesses to come forward.

Half a million people from Serbia and neighbouring countries attended the funeral on Thursday of Serbian Orthodox Patriarch Pavle, who presided over the revival of the faith after decades of communist rule.

Brussels, Nov 19 (DPA) Top diplomats from the so-called '5+1' group of world powers were to meet in Brussels Friday to discuss how to respond to Iran's refusal to reach a nuclear deal, diplomats said Thursday.

London, Nov 19 (IANS) Police arrested six more men from a house in west London Thursday in connection with the murder of an Indian-origin woman who was found dying on the street with her hand chopped off.

London, Nov 19 (IANS) The mother of Scarlett Keeling, the British teenager who was murdered in Goa last year, has been charged with a 50,000-pound benefit fraud, according to a newspaper report Thursday.

European Union leaders plan to decide who will be the bloc's president and high representative for foreign affairs at a summit on Thursday.

London, Nov 19 (IANS) The son Osama bin Laden favoured to carry on his work says he would like to work for the United Nations instead -- as a peace campaigner.

Trudging out of the woods in a heavy downpour with a large sack roped to his back and two black chickens cradled in his arms, Eric arap Tuwei joins his wife and six children in a flimsy grass shelter.

London, Nov 19 (IANS) Acclaimed American novelist Philip Roth has been shortlisted for the Bad Sex Award, alongside fellow-literary luminaries Amos Oz and Paul Theroux.

Silvio Berlusconi's conservative People of Freedom (PDL) coalition has bolstered its popularity despite judicial problems dogging the Italian prime minister and splits among its leadership, according to an opinion poll on Thursday.

Nezir Jonuzi sips black tea, stares at Prime Minister Hashim Thaci's boyhood home and wonders whether he can get a job to feed his family.

Moscow, Nov 19 (RIA Novosti) Russia's Constitutional Court prolonged on Thursday a moratorium on the death penalty, which was due to expire Jan 1.

Rome, Nov 19 (IANS/AKI) Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has ruled out a general election and said his government was 'solid'.

Rome, Nov 19 (IANS/AKI) Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has rejected a decision by the European Court of Human Rights opposing the display of the crucifix in school classrooms in officially secular Italy, saying it is important to maintain traditions.

Brazil's top court ruled on Wednesday to extradite former Italian guerrilla Cesare Battisti om murder charges but left the final decision to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who granted him refugee status early this year.

Stockholm, Nov 19 (RIA Novosti) Russia aims to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to 25 percent below the 1990 level by 2020, President Dmitry Medvedev told an EU-Russia summit here Thursday.

Vienna, Nov 19 (DPA) An Iranian diplomat threatened Wednesday to withhold cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency's probe of a new nuclear site if the IAEA pushes too hard for information, participants at an agency meeting in Vienna said.

Brussels, Nov 19 (IANS) Officials of the European Union (EU) and Russia have signed a series of agreements here to boost socio-economic development in border regions.

Berlin, Nov 19 (IANS) Germany has decided to extend its military mission in Afghanistan for another year. The current mandate will expire Dec 13.

Brazil's top judge said on Wednesday he would vote to extradite former Italian guerrilla Cesare Battisti to face murder charges in Italy, meaning the the court will rule to send him back to his home country.