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Police and paramedics bring John Demjanjuk out of the Munich courtroom yesterday

Wheeled into court to hisses

Tony Paterson: Holocaust survivors witness opening of controversial war crimes trial in Munich.

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César Baldaccini

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.

A minaret atop a Turkish cultural centre

Switzerland votes to ban the building of minarets

Monday, 30 November 2009

Swiss government stunned as xenophobic fringe parties exult

Russian police officers and investigators inspect the train derailment

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.

A woman carries a banner reading "don't close the houses for prostitutes, close Palazzo Grazioli"

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 from all over north-eastern France are responding to increases in tobacco taxes by driving over the border to Belgium

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

John Demjanjuk

'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

Accused Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk in a wheelchair outside the courtroom in Munich

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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