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Tour during Costa Luminosa’s visit to Reykjavik in August 2010. Visits to Thingvellir National Park by Unesco declared as world heritage – Gullfoss waterfall, geysirs, and magnificent views of Reykjavik itself

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Residents in the US state of Lousiana are fighting for their right to defend themselves. Police confiscated their guns after hurricane Katrina struck five years ago. It was an attempt to keep order amid the looting and violence which followed. But as Priya Sridhar has been finding out, many in the state are still angry [...]

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Bronislaw Komorowski was recently elected president of Poland. He comes into the job in the wake of president Lech Kaczinsky’s death in a plane crash. In his first interview with an international TV channel since his election, he spells out his foreign policy goals to euronews. *Sergio Cantone, euronews*: Mr President, welcome to euronews. What [...]

At least 9 people have been killed and 2 badly injured in a fire at a retirement home in the Tver Region, in western Russia. The Emergencies Ministry says there is evidence suggesting one of the residents committed suicide by setting himself alight, and then the flames spread throughout the building. “Several possibilities as to [...]