BRUSSELS, Belgium - Anti-death penalty activists staged a mock hanging outside the Japanese embassy Friday to mark the European day against the death penalty, calling on nations around the world to stop executions. Read more…

LONDON - A disk which a tabloid said carries personal details on some 100,000 serving British military personnel is missing, the Ministry of Defense said Friday. Read more…

ANKARA, Turkey - The spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians is calling for greater unity between the Orthodox Churches. Read more…

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LISBON, Portugal - Portugal's Parliament voted by a large majority Friday against proposals to allow same-sex marriages in the mostly Roman Catholic country. Read more…

HELSINKI, Finland - Martti Ahtisaari, 71, was a primary school teacher who joined Finland's Foreign Ministry in 1965. He spent 20 years abroad, first as ambassador to Tanzania and then to the United Nations in New York. Read more…

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - A surprising number of bettors correctly chose French writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio to win the 2008 Nobel Prize for literature — leading the Nobel prize jury to suspect a leak. Read more…

BELGRADE, Serbia - Serbia responded furiously Friday to the decision of two of its neighbors to recognize Kosovo's independence saying it was prompted by Western pressure and was a blow to regional stability. Read more…

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GENEVA (Reuters) - About 100 migrants believed to be mainly Somalis are missing and feared dead after being forced overboard by smugglers off the coast of Yemen, the United Nations refugee agency said Friday. Read more…

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - A Swedish court has sentenced Chilean tenor Ernesto "Tito" Beltran to two years and six months in prison for raping an 18-year-old nanny and molesting a 7-year-old girl. Read more…

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GORI, Georgia (Reuters) - Russia has partly complied with a ceasefire deal requiring it to pull back its forces in Georgia, France's foreign minister said on a visit on Friday to verify the pullback on behalf of the European Union. Read more…

GENEVA - The U.N. health agency says it is investigating a mystery disease that killed three people in the South African city of Johannesburg. Read more…

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Todays announcement from The Swedish Academy featured French author Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio as the 2008 Nobel Prize winner in Literature for a lifetime of successful works. Read more…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has won two out of its three claims in a landmark case against China's copyright and trademark protection regime, a U.S. trade official said on Thursday, contradicting other trade sources who said China won the bulk of the ruling. Read more…

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The United States House of Representatives passed House Resolution 1413 sponsored by Congresswoman Diane Watson, D-CA-33 and co-sponsored by 31 additional U.S. Representatives which included diverse sides of the political spectrum from Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) to Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA). They passed a resolution which recognized the innovative "at-risk" Youth Impact Program and encouraged the expansion of the program to the inner-cities across the nation. Read more…

A federal grand jury sitting in Houston has indicted five individuals in a 12-count indictment with devising a scheme to defraud residential mortgage lenders by misstating facts relevant to the lending decisions, U.S. Attorney Don DeGabrielle, FBI Houston Special Agent-in-Charge Andrew R. Bland III and Rodney E. Clarke, Special Agent-In-Charge of the Houston office of the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigations Division (IRS-CI), announced today. Read more…

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Student governmentleaders from around the country this week pledged to start a grassrootshealthcare reform movement at their colleges and universities. They made thepledge during a three-day conference in Nashville sponsored by SHOUTAmerica, anew non-partisan, non-profit group dedicated to engaging young people in thenational dialogue on healthcare reform. Read more…