washingtonpost.com - Western EuropeWestern EuropeU.S., Italy Fail to Agree On Agent's Death in Iraq- May 9, 2005 ROME, April 29 -- After a five-week joint investigation, U.S. and Italian officials announced Friday they had failed to reach agreement on the circumstances of the fatal shooting of an Italian intelligence agent by U.S. troops in Baghdad on March 5. The deadlock keeps alive a dispute that is undermining the standing of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, a key U.S. ally in Iraq.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26991-2005Apr30.html?nav=rss_world/europe/w... Largest Passenger Jet Makes First Flight- May 9, 2005 PARIS, April 27 -- Europe's Airbus A380, the world's biggest passenger jet, completed its inaugural flight Wednesday, landing with tons of test equipment on the same runway near Toulouse where the supersonic Concorde also had its maiden flight in 1969.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21735-2005Apr28.html?nav=rss_world/europe/w... Area Catholics Reflect on New Leader- May 9, 2005 The newly elected prince of the church was foremost in the hearts and minds of hundreds of thousands of area Catholics.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12351-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_world/europe/w... Priest at Vatican Is Called a Spy- May 9, 2005 WARSAW, April 27 -- A Polish priest at the Vatican was accused Wednesday of collaborating with his country's communist secret police during the 1980s, a time when Pope John Paul II was inspiring his countrymen to resist the Soviet-backed government.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21594-2005Apr28.html?nav=rss_world/europe/w... Lobbyist Paid for DeLay's Airfare- May 9, 2005 House ethics rules bar lawmakers from accepting travel and related expenses from registered lobbyists. The House Majority Leader has said that his expenses on a 2000 trip were paid by a nonprofit organization, and that the financial arrangements for it were proper.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12416-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_world/europe/w... Italy Opens Its Own Probe of Agent's Slaying in Iraq- May 9, 2005 ROME, April 27 -- Dissatisfied with the results of a joint investigation with the United States, Italy on Wednesday began its own probe into the March 4 killing of one of its intelligence agents by U.S. troops in Baghdad.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21597-2005Apr28.html?nav=rss_world/europe/w... Europe's Minority Politicians in Short Supply- May 9, 2005 PARIS -- Mariam Osman Sherifay is a Muslim woman, born in Egypt. Coskun Coruz left his native Turkey as a child. And Paul Boateng is a soft-spoken and dapper lawyer, a black man who spent most of his childhood in Ghana.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12396-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_world/europe/w... |