Word: europeanate
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...pint of Tetley's pretty much anywhere these days." Peter Reid - older, wiser and apparently with expletives depleted - also seems comfortable in Thailand. "It's an adventure," he says. "Even though you do miss home, I can get English radio through me laptop and the Premier League and European games are always on. It's a small world these days...
British Prime Minister GORDON BROWN, calling on European leaders to confront President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, where a cholera outbreak has killed more than 600 people...
...them in the coastal towns where they hide between their seaborne adventures. Although some countries are reluctant to support an initiative that would redefine the Law of the Sea, Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice is expected to present a draft to the Security Council early next week. Moreover, the European Union (EU) is pulling together a joint maritime effort to attack pirates on sea. For the EU, this represents an unprecedented move toward joint military efforts–the navies of Germany, Britain, France, and four other member countries are expected to participate in what has been dubbed Operation Atalanta...
...planned to launch a suicide strike - although the target remains unknown. "When you have people returning from Afghanistan, as most of these people had, they're sufficiently hard-core that the question isn't whether they'll be undertaking plotting activity but when, and in what form," said a European counterterrorism official with knowledge of the case. "What's important for us to learn is, if the Taliban or their al-Qaeda allies decide to strike us today, who are they going to do it with: their old European networks, [or] via Pakistani groups, jihadist organizations in North Africa...
...arrest of the network - which had been monitored by 80 police and antiterrorism officers working full-time since the start of the year, according to Pellens - came just hours before leaders of the European Union were set to open a two-day summit in the Belgian capital. That meeting doesn't appear to have been a target of a plot whose details authorities say remain hazy. Still, Belgian officials said the decision to seize the group had become urgent to prevent the designated suicide bomber from possibly launching an attack before police could discover the target and stop...