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Canals in the Netherlands no longer freeze every winter, so the chance to ice skate outdoors created a frenzy in Kinderdijk and elsewhere in the south.
By JOHN TAGLIABUE
For the first time in 12 years, the Netherlands' canals froze this month, bringing the Dutch a heady mix of pandemonium and euphoria.
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By JUDY DEMPSEY
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has ditched her commitment to tight budgets and fiscal rectitude in favor of state intervention and a dose of populism.
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By HELEN T. VERONGOS
John Mortimer, barrister, author, playwright and creator of Horace Rumpole, the cunning defender of the British criminal classes, has died, said his publisher at Viking, Tony Lacey. He was 85 years old.
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William Holden, a former managing editor of the International Herald Tribune, died Monday in a nursing home in Grand Forks, North Dakota, after a long illness. He was 72.
By STEPHEN CASTLE AND DAVID JOLLY
More than one week after the European Union put its credibility on the line by intervening, the diplomatic gamble has failed to get the gas flowing.
By SARAH LYALL
The move defied an angry wave of opposition from environmentalists, public officials and communities across West London.
By ELAINE SCIOLINO
The recession brings anxiety to France but also a welcomed values debate on the French way of life.
By KATRIN BENNHOLD
President Nicolas Sarkozy picked a former Socialist as the minister of immigration to help silence critics of his administration's most controversial post.
By JUDY DEMPSEY
Rapid and widespread privatization in several former Soviet states and post-communist East European countries in the early 1990s contributed to rising mortality rates.
By MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ
Yuri Budanov, a decorated Russian Army colonel before he was stripped of his rank, was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2003.
By SARAH LYALL
Why didn't anyone realize right away that there was something seriously weird about the new piece of art in Brussels?
By ELLEN BARRY
Violent protests over political grievances and mounting economic woes shook the Latvian capital, Riga, on Tuesday.
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By WILLIAM GRIMES
Naess's ideas about promoting an intimate and all-embracing relationship between the earth and the human species inspired environmentalists and Green political activists around the world.
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- Gas crisis in Europe continues
- Berlin details a two-year €82 billion spending program
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