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World news in one minute: Find out what happened around the world on 27 January

Associated Press Tuesday, 27 January 2015, 06:53 Last update: about 10 years ago

GREECE-ELECTION

ATHENS, Greece - Greece's Syriza party gains the key backing needed to form a government, creating a surprise alliance with a small right-wing party that signals possible confrontation over the country's bailout. By Derek Gatopoulos. 

UKRAINE

MOSCOW - Russian officials strike a defiant note after Western leaders threaten to further punish Moscow for escalated fighting in eastern Ukraine over the weekend, with the foreign minister saying a shelling tragedy is being used to "whip up anti-Russian hysteria" in the West. 

POLAND-AUSCHWITZ-SURVIVORS

OSWIECIM, Poland - A day before the 70th anniversary of Auschwitz's liberation, the voice of survivors praying for their murdered loved ones rise from the barracks and barbed wire of the former Nazi death camp, with one survivor crying out in a pained voice: "I don't want to come here anymore!" 

BRITAIN-FEMALE BISHOP

LONDON - Male domination in the leadership of the Church of England is coming to an end, as the 500-year-old institution consecrates its first female bishop. The Rev. Libby Lane becomes the eighth Bishop of Stockport in a service at York Minster. 

SPAIN-CERVANTES'-BONES

MADRID - Experts searching for the remains of Miguel de Cervantes have found a casket bearing the initials "M.C." with bones inside it in a crypt underneath a cloistered convent in Madrid. 

 

 

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