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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.

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi ruled out early elections on Wednesday, rejecting a warning by the Senate speaker that splits in the government threatened its ability to stay in power.

Rome, Nov 18 (DPA) The Dalai Lama Wednesday denied reports that he is suffering from cancer, but admitted that his eventual passing would represent a blow for the Tibetan cause.

A power struggle between French politician Segolene Royal and an estranged ally has thrown the opposition Socialist Party into turmoil, offering relief to President Nicolas Sarkozy who faces disunity in his own camp.

London, Nov 18 (IANS) Police were reported to have arrested the estranged India-born husband of a young British Punjabi woman who died Monday after being found on the streets of a London suburb with a severed hand.

London, Nov 18 (IANS) Indian and other non-European migrants could find themselves doubly disadvantaged in the recession if immigration proposals currently before parliament end up wrongly targeting legal migrants, the British government has been told.

It may sound exaggerated but it?s true ? one feels a little more ?complete? after a visit to the place where Virgin Mary is thought to have spent her last days. No wonder, then, that the small stone house (now restored and converted into a chapel) located on Mt. Koressos, nine kilometres off Ephesus in Turkey, attracts many pilgrims every year.

London, Nov 18 (IANS) Police were reported to have arrested the estranged India-born husband of a young British Punjabi woman who died Monday after being found on the streets of a London suburb with a severed hand.

U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer on Tuesday predicted that the United States will not reach a consensus on carbon emission reduction goals for 2020 in time for December's international global warming summit in Copenhagen.

Vienna, Nov 18 (DPA) The world's nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), conducted a second inspection of a Syrian reactor Tuesday - a day after the agency made clear it was not satisfied with Syria's explanation about uranium particles found there.

London/Nairobi, Nov 17 (DPA) Somali pirates have captured a tanker with 28 North Koreans aboard - but failed in an attack to seize a Ukrainian vessel following a firefight, the European Union's anti-piracy mission off Somalia NAVFOR said Tuesday.

Bolzano (Italy), Nov 17 (DPA) The Dalai Lama, speaking Tuesday during a visit to Italy, said he appreciated US President Barack Obama's appeal to Chinese leaders to hold talks with him over the situation in Tibet.

London, Nov 17 (IANS) Nearly a century after the Irish poet W.B. Yeats helped launch Rabindranath Tagore to global fame, some of Ireland's most distinguished poets have teamed up with their Indian counterparts to celebrate a week-long festival of languages and culture in New Delhi, Hyderabad and Kolkata.

Yekaterinberg (Russia), Nov 17 (RIA Novosti) A Russian police officer from the Urals city of Severouralsk killed himself after accidentally shooting his female colleague dead, an official said Tuesday.

As a girl who raised her voice to demand India?s independence from the British, Shreela Flather never imagined that one day she would be a part of British politics and become the first woman from the Asian ethnic minority community to enter Britain?s parliament.

Prague, Nov. 15 -- Former Czech president Vaclav Havel opened festivities in Prague celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution, which toppled the communist regime in 1989. On Nov 17, 1989, a crack down by riot police on a peaceful student protest in Prague, kicked off the Velvet Revolution.

Tokyo, Nov. 14 -- US President Barack Obama on Saturday declared Washington's intent to renew its active role in the Asian region after being "disengaged" in recent years.

Three days after the breathtaking show at Brandenburg Gate to commemorate the fall of the Wall, Berlin ? bombed to nearly rubble 65 years ago ? has turned itself into a theme park to celebrate the event that led 20 years ago to Germany?s reunification.

He's been depicted as Darth Vader in the Russian press and described as "the scariest person on Earth." Igor Sechin's official title is deputy prime minister, but within Russia, many consider him the most powerful individual in the country after Vladimir Putin. (Yes--that means he's more influential than the president.