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Smokers In Italy Face Steep New Fines

2:19pm February 04, 2016

Laws take effect this week aimed at curbing Italy's love of smoking. Smokers who flick butts on the street, risk a $300 fine. Mary Louise Kelly talks to Salvatore Barberi a tour guide in Rome.

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U.S. To Send More Heavy Military Equipment To Eastern Europe

2:14pm February 04, 2016

Evelyn Farkas, a former U.S. deputy assistant secretary of Defense for Russia-Ukraine-Eurasia, tells Mary Louise Kelly that the buildup of U.S. military equipment is a bold move against Moscow.

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Italian Dairy Cooperative Guarantees Bonds With Cheese

7:49am February 04, 2016

After a bank refused to lend money to the group, they were able to raise millions of dollars by issuing bonds guaranteed by extremely large wheels of Parmesan cheese.

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British Prime Minister David Cameron wants to cut migration, and part of the government's plan calls for some foreign workers to leave if they are making less than 35,000 pounds (about $50,000) annually.

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Britain To Foreign Workers: If You Don't Make $50,000 A Year, Please Leave

6:55pm February 03, 2016

by Leila Fadel

To reduce the number of foreign workers, some of those making less than $50,000 won't qualify to stay in Britain beyond April. Critics say the deal would cause labor shortages.

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U.K. Ambassador To U.S. On Importance Of Finding Political Solution In Syria

4:44pm February 03, 2016

NPR's Audie Cornish interviews Kim Darroch, the United Kingdom's new ambassador to the United States, about the Syrian peace talks in Geneva and the Supporting Syria conference being hosted by his country on Thursday.

Luxembourg City, the capital of Luxembourg — shown here in 2012 — mixes the medieval and the modern. The tiny European nation is making a serious bid for the futuristic, too.

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Luxembourg Hopes To Rocket To Front Of Asteroid-Mining Space Race

4:16pm February 03, 2016

by Camila Domonoske

The tiny European country will be investing in research and building a regulatory framework to help make a futuristic industry — the extraction of minerals from objects in space — a reality.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova (center) and Maria Alyokhina (left) leave a police station near Sochi on Feb. 18, 2014. They'd been arrested earlier in the host city of the 2014 Winter Olympics and walked free after being questioned about an alleged theft from a h

The Kremlin Is Not Going To Like Pussy Riot's New Video

4:07pm February 03, 2016

by Corey Flintoff

The Russian protest group skewers Russia's prosecutor-general, Yuri Chaika, who's accused of corruption. The video stars one of two Pussy Riot members jailed in 2012 for "hooliganism."

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Migrant Rescue Ship Prowls Waters Between Greece And Turkey

4:03pm February 03, 2016

by Joanne Kakissis

Thousands of migrants land daily on Greece' shores seeking asylum in Europe. Hundreds don't make it, drowning during the sea voyage. Volunteers, with private rescue boats, are trying to save migrants.

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Children from a refugee camp in the Dutch city of Nijmegen arrive for their first day of school last month.

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In A Dutch City, A Syrian Couple Settles In And Is Reminded Of Home

3:51pm February 03, 2016

by Eleanor Beardsley

A Syrian husband and wife wait in a prison turned shelter while their bid for asylum is processed. Wife Lena says she's ready to start all over in the Netherlands, "just like a baby."

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Turkey Contributes To Migrants Overwhelming Greece, Ambassador Says

8:25am February 03, 2016

Greece is the first stop for many migrants coming from the Middle East. Renee Montagne talks to Christos Panagopoulos, Greece's ambassador to the U.S. about E.U. attempts to curb the flow of migrants.

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