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Chancellor Angela Merkel last night, insisting that a switch away</description><link>http://www.spiderednews.com/France_I.php?url=@http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/rain-on-his-parade--then-franois-hollande-flies-into-a-storm-7754459.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.spiderednews.com/France_I.php?url=@http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/rain-on-his-parade--then-franois-hollande-flies-into-a-storm-7754459.html</guid><category>France</category></item><item><title>David Cameron warns of possible euro break-up</title><dc:creator>INDEPENDENT</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 14:52:46 GMT</pubDate><description> Europe faces the potential break-up of the single currency unless it takes urgent action to deal with the euro crisis, Prime Minister David Cameron warned today.</description><link>http://www.spiderednews.com/Europe_I.php?url=@http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/david-cameron-warns-of-possible-euro-breakup-7757544.html</link><guid 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commander General Ratko Mladic defiant at genocide trial in The Hague</title><dc:creator>INDEPENDENT</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 17:00:24 GMT</pubDate><description> Ratko Mladic was a shadow of the swaggering general who once "held Sarajevo in the palm of his hand" during Bosnia's 1992-95 war as his long-awaited genocide trial opened - but he still</description><link>http://www.spiderednews.com/EasternEurope_I.php?url=@http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/bosnian-serb-commander-general-ratko-mladic-defiant-at-genocide-trial-in-the-hague-7756665.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.spiderednews.com/EasternEurope_I.php?url=@http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/bosnian-serb-commander-general-ratko-mladic-defiant-at-genocide-trial-in-the-hague-7756665.html</guid><category>Eastern Europe</category></item><item><title>In the dock: justice catches up with Butcher of Bosnia</title><dc:creator>INDEPENDENT</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 23:00:01 GMT</pubDate><description> Twenty years after he became commander of the Bosnian Serb Army for the 1992-95 war, Ratko Mladic sat in the dock of the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague yesterday charged</description><link>http://www.spiderednews.com/EasternEurope_I.php?url=@http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/in-the-dock-justice-catches-up-with-butcher-of-bosnia-7758070.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.spiderednews.com/EasternEurope_I.php?url=@http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/in-the-dock-justice-catches-up-with-butcher-of-bosnia-7758070.html</guid><category>Eastern Europe</category></item><item><title>Cameron to tell Hollande austerity works – but King raises alarm</title><dc:creator>INDEPENDENT</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 23:00:01 GMT</pubDate><description> David Cameron will claim today that austerity is working despite Britain's slide back into recession as he urges eurozone countries to either "make up or break up".</description><link>http://www.spiderednews.com/UnitedKingdom_I.php?url=@http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/cameron-to-tell-hollande-austerity-works--but-king-raises-alarm-7758129.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.spiderednews.com/UnitedKingdom_I.php?url=@http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/cameron-to-tell-hollande-austerity-works--but-king-raises-alarm-7758129.html</guid><category>United Kingdom</category></item><item><title>Hollande delivers on gender in government</title><dc:creator>INDEPENDENT</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 23:00:01 GMT</pubDate><description>President François Hollande showed an unexpectedly ruthless streak yesterday by shaping a gender-balanced French government from which several friends, and one notable foe, were excluded. </description><link>http://www.spiderednews.com/France_I.php?url=@http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/hollande-delivers-on-gender-in-government-7758082.html</link><guid 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put a $100,000 bounty on his head</title><dc:creator>INDEPENDENT</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 23:00:01 GMT</pubDate><description> An Iranian rapper has been forced into hiding after hardline clerics offered a $100,000 reward for his murder, incensed by his song satirising the Tehran regime and making allegedly</description><link>http://www.spiderednews.com/Europe_I.php?url=@http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/blasphemous-rapper-goes-into-hiding-after-irans-hardline-clerics-put-a-100000-bounty-on-his-head-7758076.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.spiderednews.com/Europe_I.php?url=@http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/blasphemous-rapper-goes-into-hiding-after-irans-hardline-clerics-put-a-100000-bounty-on-his-head-7758076.html</guid><category>Europe</category></item><item><title>Taylor claims West rigged his trial at The Hague</title><dc:creator>INDEPENDENT</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 23:00:01 GMT</pubDate><description> The war criminal and former Liberian President, Charles Taylor, accused the international court that convicted him of crimes against humanity of being manipulated by the West, and said</description><link>http://www.spiderednews.com/Europe_I.php?url=@http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/taylor-claims-west-rigged-his-trial-at-the-hague-7758071.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.spiderednews.com/Europe_I.php?url=@http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/taylor-claims-west-rigged-his-trial-at-the-hague-7758071.html</guid><category>Europe</category></item><item><title>World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Riot Police Break Up Anti-Putin Tent Protest</title><dc:creator>NYTIMES</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 17:35:04 GMT</pubDate><description>A court ordered the police to break up an encampment in a Moscow park where people protesting Vladimir V. Putin’s return to the presidency have carried out a sit-in for almost a week, playing</description><link>http://www.spiderednews.com/Europe_I.php?url=@http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=2cc29d90a87eb7106f93a6c0d80028d9</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.spiderednews.com/Europe_I.php?url=@http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=2cc29d90a87eb7106f93a6c0d80028d9</guid><category>Europe</category></item><item><title>World Briefing | Europe: Ukraine: European Experts Will Assess Health of Jailed Former Prime Minister</title><dc:creator>NYTIMES</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 06:15:07 GMT</pubDate><description>Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said Wednesday that the European Union would be allowed to send experts to assess the medical state of his jailed predecessor, Yulia V. Tymoshenko.  </description><link>http://www.spiderednews.com/EuropeanUnion_I.php?url=@http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=12acca0f5a023405261ffff9ecba9d99</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.spiderednews.com/EuropeanUnion_I.php?url=@http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=12acca0f5a023405261ffff9ecba9d99</guid><category>European Union</category></item><item><title>World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Downed Jet was Backup Model</title><dc:creator>NYTIMES</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 06:50:09 GMT</pubDate><description>The Russian passenger airliner that crashed during a demonstration flight in Indonesia last week was a backup the manufacturer had sent to complete a promotional tour though Asia after the</description><link>http://www.spiderednews.com/Europe_I.php?url=@http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=987a4cee027b3cd3fba77b485eaa01cb</link><guid 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Chase</title><dc:creator>NYTIMES</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 19:28:40 GMT</pubDate><description>Bruno Iksil, the trader at the center of the bank’s $2 billion debacle, is expected to depart, colleagues said.  </description><link>http://www.spiderednews.com/Europe_I.php?url=@http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=a18b6968ba43392635893e79f973faa8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.spiderednews.com/Europe_I.php?url=@http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=a18b6968ba43392635893e79f973faa8</guid><category>Europe</category></item><item><title>Ratko Mladic Faces War Crimes Charges</title><dc:creator>NYTIMES</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 05:55:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb military commander, went on trial at The Hague on Wednesday for war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity in the 1990s.  </description><link>http://www.spiderednews.com/EasternEurope_I.php?url=@http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=c67f038b7c1e51bdaf27ec88e7f0f859</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.spiderednews.com/EasternEurope_I.php?url=@http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=c67f038b7c1e51bdaf27ec88e7f0f859</guid><category>Eastern Europe</category><media:thumbnail width="80" height="80" url="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2012/05/17/world/europe/17haugue/17haugue-thumbStandard.jpg"/></item><item><title>In France, New Cabinet Is Announced by Hollande</title><dc:creator>NYTIMES</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 05:55:06 GMT</pubDate><description>France’s new president, François Hollande, unveiled a center-left cabinet on Wednesday, leaving out the head of the Socialist Party, Martine Aubry, who is considered on the left-wing of the</description><link>http://www.spiderednews.com/France_I.php?url=@http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=943a5959075a8fa8c6c6a55e811c8ff0</link><guid 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Hollande and Germany’s Merkel Pledge to Chalk Out New Growth Plan to Solve EU Crisis</title><dc:creator>IBTIMES</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 00:56:05 EDT</pubDate><description>France's new Socialist President Francois Hollande met the German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin and both leaders promised to work together to bring back growth in the recession-hit</description><link>http://www.spiderednews.com/France_I.php?url=@http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341518/20120516/france-s-hollande-germany-merkel-pledge-carve.htm</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.spiderednews.com/France_I.php?url=@http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341518/20120516/france-s-hollande-germany-merkel-pledge-carve.htm</guid><category>France</category><media:thumbnail width="80" height="49" url="http://img.ibtimes.com/www/data/images/middle/2012/05/16/274200-hollande-merkel-meeting-in-berlin.jpg"/></item><item><title>Greece: Golden Dawn Leader Nikos Michaloliakos Denies the Holocaust</title><dc:creator>IBTIMES</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 05:19:14 EDT</pubDate><description>Greek government and Jews hit back at Golden Dawn's leader's denial of the Holocaust.</description><link>http://www.spiderednews.com/Europe_I.php?url=@http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341626/20120516/holocaust-golden-dawn-jews-greece-neo-nazi.htm</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.spiderednews.com/Europe_I.php?url=@http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341626/20120516/holocaust-golden-dawn-jews-greece-neo-nazi.htm</guid><category>Europe</category><media:thumbnail width="80" height="55" url="http://img.ibtimes.com/www/data/images/middle/2012/05/10/272534.jpg"/></item><item><title>Claim Jewish Hollywood Moguls Seduced John Travolta a Lie, admits Masseur</title><dc:creator>IBTIMES</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 06:58:09 EDT</pubDate><description>One of two masseurs claiming that John Travolta sexually abused them has withdrawn his accusations against the actor.</description><link>http://www.spiderednews.com/Europe_I.php?url=@http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341661/20120516/one-john-travolta-s-alleged-sexually-abused.htm</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.spiderednews.com/Europe_I.php?url=@http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341661/20120516/one-john-travolta-s-alleged-sexually-abused.htm</guid><category>Europe</category><media:thumbnail width="80" height="61" url="http://img.ibtimes.com/www/data/images/middle/2012/05/10/272557.jpg"/></item><item><title>Mladic Taunts Survivors of Srebrenica Massacre as 'Butcher of Bosnia' Trial Begins at The Hague [VIDEO]</title><dc:creator>IBTIMES</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 08:21:20 EDT</pubDate><description>Defiant former Bosnian Serby army General Ratko Mladic makes threatening gesture to survivors and realtives of Srebrenica massacre, as his trial begins for crimes against humanity.</description><link>http://www.spiderednews.com/EasternEurope_I.php?url=@http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341694/20120516/ratko-mladic-srebrenica-massacre-trial-crimes-against.htm</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.spiderednews.com/EasternEurope_I.php?url=@http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341694/20120516/ratko-mladic-srebrenica-massacre-trial-crimes-against.htm</guid><category>Eastern Europe</category></item><item><title>Greece Sets New Elections, To Form Interim Caretaker Government</title><dc:creator>IBTIMES</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 09:00:20 EDT</pubDate><description>Last-ditch efforts to form a unity government on Tuesday failed, leading Papoulias to call these extraordinary measures.</description><link>http://www.spiderednews.com/Europe_I.php?url=@http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/341719/20120516/greece-elections-austerity-eu-vote-syriza-bailout.htm</link><guid 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