Senator Edward Kennedy died and his death removes a towering figure among U.S. Democrats. more »
The Belchatow plant is the European Union's largest coal-fired power plant but also its largest polluter. more »
The EU has increased 1 its assistance to Greece in fighting major forest fires over the weekend. Several fires are raging in the immediate vicinity of Athens, threatening residential areas. more »
Gunmen at Pakistan's northwest frontie shot dead the bureau chief of an Afghan TV channel as he travelled by bus through the Khyber Pass. more »
Due to the extreme weather conditions and severe forest fires Greece today activated the Community Mechanism for Civil Protection and requested assistance with aerial means. more »
Twenty years ago this August, two million people joined hands across 600 kilometres and three countries to mark 50 years since the Nazi-Soviet pact delivered Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia into forced Soviet rule. more »
20 August the second presidential election in the history of Afghanistan is taking place. more »
For a second day, dozens of firefighters, backed by helicopters, are working hard to check the advance of a huge forest fire outside the ancient city of Thebes. more »
Twenty years ago a picnic was held that went down in history as the event that would play a decisive role in the fall of the Iron Curtain. more »
This is the moment the pilot of this fighter plane ejected before it plunged to the ground in flames. It followed a collision between two Russian jets making a training flight in preparation for a series of air shows near Moscow. more »
For a second day, dozens of firefighters, backed by helicopters, are working hard to check the advance of a huge forest fire outside the ancient city of Thebes.
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