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Wheeled into court to hisses
Tony Paterson: Holocaust survivors witness opening of controversial war crimes trial in Munich.
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On trial: the question of what is modern art
Tuesday, 1 December 2009
To the uneducated eye, there is very little difference between the work of sculptor César Baldaccini and a block of scrapyard – a characteristic exploited by two French brothers. John Lichfield reports from Paris
Swiss official hints at reversal of minaret ban
Tuesday, 1 December 2009
A top Swiss official said yesterday that voter approval of a ban on minarets next to mosques could be struck down in court, as critics at home and abroad condemned the vote, saying it undermined the country's secular image.
Switzerland votes to ban the building of minarets
Monday, 30 November 2009
Swiss government stunned as xenophobic fringe parties exult
Former soldier suspected of train bombing
Monday, 30 November 2009
Islamic militant blamed for an earlier attack on same Russian rail line.
Catholic Church asks Garda to examine if clerical child sex ring existed
Monday, 30 November 2009
The archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin has asked the Garda to investigate whether a clerical paedophile ring was operating in the archdiocese.
Embattled Berlusconi lashes out at reports linking him with the Mafia
Monday, 30 November 2009
Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi has been forced to make a dramatic denial that he colluded with the Mafia after rumours that have swirled for days about his alleged links with Cosa Nostra chiefs in the early 1990s exploded on to the front pages of Italian newspapers.
Smokers' paradise: French turn to Belgium for cheap cigarettes
Monday, 30 November 2009
French tobacconists are fuming about Belgians stealing their customers. But they are fighting back, reports John Lichfield
'Last Nazi trial' opens in Munich
Monday, 30 November 2009
Sixteen years after Israelis acquitted him as falsely identified, a frail John Demjanjuk is back in the dock
John Lichfield: Cafe society is dead, but long live the cafe
Monday, 30 November 2009
Paris Notebook: The cafe is no longer a community in which strangers become, briefly, friends
Nazi guard faces trial from his wheelchair
Monday, 30 November 2009
he trial of John Demjanjuk, an 89-year-old former guard at a Nazi camp, opened today on charges of helping to force 27,900 Jews into gas chambers at Sobibor death camp in 1943.
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5 Switzerland votes to ban the building of minarets
6 Smokers' paradise: French turn to Belgium for cheap cigarettes
7 Knox called 'she-devil' by murder trial lawyer
8 Nazi guard faces trial from his wheelchair
9 Catholic Church asks Garda to examine if clerical child sex ring existed
10 John Lichfield: Cafe society is dead, but long live the cafe
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4 Swiss official hints at reversal of minaret ban
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6 Knox called 'she-devil' by murder trial lawyer
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8 Former soldier suspected of train bombing
9 'Last Nazi trial' opens in Munich
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