- A new Lebanese magazine that Focuses on body art, science and literature and aims to tackle subjects such as eroticism and fetishism, is due to hit the stands in the Arab world next month.
Joumana Haddad, editor-in-chief of Jasad (the Arabic word for body), said the publication aims to break taboos and will provide its writers, researchers and artists with the freedom they deserve.
Sofia - Bulgarian police seized a 70-kilo shipment of heroin and arrested a German national carrying it, the authorities in Sofia said Monday.
The man with two packets of the drug in a bunker of his car was arrested in Ruse, a town with the only bridge linking Bulgaria with Romania across the Danube.
Bulgaria straddles the key routes of international trafficking in narcotics, chemicals for drug-production and people. It incinerated 19 tons of various drugs over the past eight years.
Berlin - Germany are expected to hand out some new caps in the friendly international against England in Berlin on Wednesday.
Coach Joachim Loew, who has called up three newcomers for the match in the Olympic Stadium, said Monday he wanted to test some or all of his trio of novices.
"The intention is to learn something new against strong opponents but I can't say yet exactly how it's going to look," Loew said.
"However I do want to give the one or other player a chance."
Athens - Thousands of police were deployed in central Athens Monday for a march commemorating the 35th anniversary of a student uprising against the military dictatorship that once ruled Greece.
More than 8,000 riot police and undercover officers will guard the streets in downtown Athens and another 2,000 in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki.
The streets in downtown Athens have been cordoned off and shops closed early ahead of the march which in past years has been marked with violence.
Beirut - British Foreign Minister David Miliband is to visit Lebanon for talks with President Michel Suleiman, Prime Minister Fouad Seniora and Parliamentary Speaker Nabih Berri, the Lebanese National News Agency (NNA) reported Monday.
The talks with the British official is to take place on Tuesday.
Miliband arrived in the Middle East on Sunday for talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders in a bid to enhance the peace process as Israel prepares for early elections.
Madrid - When Txeroki, the suspected military leader of the militant Basque separatist group ETA, was captured in France on Monday, Spanish politicians hailed the arrest as yet another step towards the unavoidable defeat of separatist violence.
Yet while ETA has been seriously weakened by constant police crackdowns, it has always found new leaders and rebuilt its infrastructure, analysts pointed out.
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Sofia - Bulgarian police seized a 70-kilo shipment of heroin and arrested a German national carrying it, the authorities in Sofia said Monday.
Berlin - Germany are expected to hand out some new caps in the friendly international against England in Berlin on Wednesday.
Athens - Thousands of police were deployed in central Athens Monday for a march commemorating the 35th anniversary of a student uprising against the military dictatorship that once ruled Greece.
Beirut - British Foreign Minister David Miliband is to visit Lebanon for talks with President Michel Suleiman, Prime Minister Fouad Seniora and Parliamentary Speaker Nabih Berri, the Lebanese National News Agency (NNA) reported Monday.
Madrid - When Txeroki, the suspected military leader of the militant Basque separatist group ETA, was captured in France on Monday, Spanish politicians hailed the arrest as yet another step towards the unavoidable defeat of separatist violence.
