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THE HAGUE (AFP) - Dutch anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders will have to be consulted on every decision the next government makes if a provisional agreement on forming a new cabinet reached Friday is finalised, an expert said. Full Story »

PARIS - President Nicolas Sarkozy said Friday that he wants to revoke the French citizenship of immigrants who put the lives of police officers in danger as part of a "national war" on delinquency. Full Story »

ROME (AFP) - Italy's Silvio Berlusconi saw the erosion of his once comfortable majority in parliament Friday as 33 lawmakers defected in support of the prime minister's estranged longtime ally. Full Story »

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ROME (Reuters) - The influential speaker of Italy's lower house refused to step down on Friday after being censured by his own party, and said his supporters could vote against the government of former ally Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Full Story »

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders' hopes of becoming a Dutch Cabinet minister evaporated Friday after exploratory talks to include him in a right-wing coalition ended without agreement. Full Story »

LONDON - An Iranian woman whose sentence of death by stoning was lifted earlier this month says she's grateful for the international support she's received, but remains heartbroken at the separation from her children and tormented by the fear she could still be executed, a rights activist said Friday. Full Story »

MASLOVKA, Russia (Reuters) - Wildfires sweeping across European Russia killed at least 25 people on Friday and forced the evacuation of thousands in the hottest weather since records began 130 years ago. Full Story »

MOSCOW - Vast sections of Russia were under a state of emergency Friday as more than 10,000 firefighters fought to save villages and forests from being reduced to ash and ember during the country's hottest summer on record. Full Story »

MADRID (AFP) - Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said Friday his government would have "preferred" if Catalonia had not outlawed bullfighting, while adding the issue should not be politicised. Full Story »

DUBLIN - The suspected remains of a 57-year-old Northern Ireland man who was abducted by the Irish Republican Army in 1981 have been unearthed in a bog in Ireland. Full Story »

PARIS - Two men who work for the U.S. Embassy in Paris underwent medical tests after handling a suspicious letter Friday, the embassy said, and Paris police said it appeared they had been exposed to tear gas fumes. Full Story »

ROME - Silvio Berlusconi has split with his oldest political ally and co-founder of his party, a spectacular falling-out expected to make it harder for the premier to push disputed legislation through parliament. Full Story »

LONDON - A U.S. senator wants to send investigators to Britain to question key witnesses on the release of the Lockerbie bomber. Full Story »

MOSCOW - President Dmitry Medvedev's human rights adviser has resigned after a Kremlin-backed youth organization threatened her with a libel suit for her harsh criticism. Full Story »

ISTANBUL - It was the last stop on the Orient Express, a grand hotel with Istanbul's first electric elevator where artists and aristocrats sipped champagne beneath chandeliers as the Ottoman Empire dissolved and the world drifted toward war. Full Story »

PRAGUE - The Czech prime minister said Friday his government has been negotiating a plan with the United States to place a warning center in the Czech Republic as part of a reworked U.S. missile defense plan. Full Story »

LONDON - Britain's Iraq inquiry says it may recall witnesses to offer new testimony — which could see ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair return to face the panel. Full Story »