Europe

Portable Toilet Leads To Rave At Music Festival In Hungary

10:11am August 28, 2017

Unsuspecting attendants at a Hungarian music festival got a surprise when they tried to use a certain portable toilet. Instead of being a real bathroom, it led to a secret rave.

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Marlene Schiappa started a blog, Maman Travaille (Mom Works), that quickly grew into a 10,000-woman advocacy network. As gender equality minister, she wants to criminalize sexual harassment on the streets. President Emmanuel Macron has tasked her with tac

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France's Gender Equality Minister Wants On-The-Spot Fines For Sexual Harassers

8:10am August 26, 2017

by Joanna Kakissis

Marlene Schiappa, France's equality minister, is a 34-year-old ex-blogger who hopes to change ingrained attitudes. Her work is cut out for her — but "she is young and she is out loud," a fan says.

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Macron Spends Thousands On Makeup

8:10am August 26, 2017

French President Emmanuel Macron has come under fire for spending about $31,000 on makeup during his first three months in office.

Matt "Airistotle" Burns (center) took home the top award at the 2016 Air Guitar World Championship in Oulu, Finland. He is back to defend his title this year.

World Air Guitar Champion Is In Finland To Defend His Title

3:51pm August 25, 2017

by Jacob Pinter

The 2017 world air guitar finals are Friday night in Finland, and Matt Burns is there. He was last year's winner. Burns picked "Airistotle" as his nom de rock.

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Criticism Builds For Catalonia Police After Last Week's Terror Attack In Spain

6:48am August 25, 2017

by Lauren Frayer

Police in Spain's northeast region of Catalonia are being criticized for not doing enough to prevent last week's terror attack. More than a dozen people were killed in a van attack in Barcelona.

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Security Agencies Faced With 'Low-Tech' Terrorist Strategies

8:01pm August 24, 2017

by Frank Langfitt

The recent wave of terror attacks in Europe show new, subtler strategies by terrorists, that create more hurdles for security agencies to detect and prevent.

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A van registered in Spain sits near the concert venue Maassilo in Rotterdam, Netherlands, where a rock concert set for Wednesday night was canceled because of a terror threat. The driver of the van, which contained some gas bottles, was arrested.

Rotterdam Concert Canceled After Terror Plot Warning

2:16pm August 24, 2017

by Rebecca Hersher

Dutch police canceled a concert by the Los Angeles band Allah-Las after a tip from Spanish authorities about the possibility of an attack at the venue. Two men have been arrested.

Mattis Seeks To Calm Nervous Ally In Turkey

8:42am August 24, 2017

by Peter Kenyon

Secretary of Defense James Mattis is in Turkey, trying to reassure President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that America's backing of Kurdish fighters won't undermine Turkey's security.

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Hervé Zarka uses a tool called a simoussi to rake up salt in his marshland on the island of Noirmoutier in France. He says there are many minerals in natural sea salt, such as magnesium and potassium, that aren't in industrial salt.

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Harvesting Salt By Hand Is Making A Comeback In France

3:02pm August 23, 2017

by Eleanor Beardsley

Since the seventh century, salt has been raked in and collected from shallow pools in marshes on the French coast. Refrigeration almost killed the industry, but the local food movement is reviving it.

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Peter Madsen's private submarine sits on a pier in Copenhagen's harbor. Danish police have identified a headless, limbless torso that washed ashore Monday as that of Kim Wall, the journalist who joined Madsen on his sub earlier this month to report a stor

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Headless Torso ID'd As Reporter Who Died Aboard Inventor's Personal Sub

2:11pm August 23, 2017

by Colin Dwyer

Peter Madsen and the journalist set out alone in his submarine. Within days, the sub had sunk and Madsen had admitted that Kim Wall died aboard. Now, police say remains that washed ashore are hers.