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La Dolce Vita actress Anita Ekberg dies at 83

Sunday, 11 January 2015, 14:08 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

Anita Ekberg, the Swedish-born actress and sex-symbol of the 1950s and '60s who was immortalized bathing in the Trevi fountain in "La Dolce Vita," has died. She was 83. Ekberg's lawyer Patrizia...

Paris terror arsenal: Kalashnikovs, rocket launcher and grenades

Sunday, 11 January 2015, 09:37 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

Kalashnikov assault rifles. Plenty of ammunition. Molotov cocktails, a grenade, a death-dealing Skorpion machine pistol and a few handguns. Plus a revolving light that could be placed on a car roof to...

Pope says concern for poor is Gospel, not communism

Sunday, 11 January 2015, 08:59 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

Pope Francis is insisting that his concern for the poor and critique of the global economic system isn't some novel, communist-inspired ideology but rather the original and core "touchstone" of the...

France hunts suspect, prepares for mass anti-terrorism rally

Sunday, 11 January 2015, 07:38 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

France vowed to combat terrorism with "a cry for freedom" in a giant rally for unity Sunday after three days of bloodshed that horrified the world. Police searched for a woman linked to the three...

France's most wanted woman has fled to Syria - reports

Saturday, 10 January 2015, 18:03 Last update: about 10 years ago

Hayat Boumeddiene has reportedly fled to Syria. The wife of terrorist Amedi Coulibaly took a flight from Madrid to Instanbul yesterday accompanied by a man whose brother was known to French...

Four victims of Paris kosher shop attack named

Saturday, 10 January 2015, 16:20 Last update: about 10 years ago

The four victims of the terror attack on a kosher shop in Paris on Friday were all Jews, according to CRIF, an umbrella group of French Jewish communities, which also identified them today. The...

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