Galileo protest halts pope's visit
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Pope Benedict XVI has canceled a planned visit to a prestigious Italian university after a protest by academics and students attacked his views on Galileo, the Vatican confirmed Tuesday.
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'Indispensable strategic tool' Galileo, the rolling European satnav project fracas, has hit the headlines again as parliamentarians in Brussels demand extra funds for the coming year.â¦
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ITALY ground to a halt today as millions of workers observed a general strike in a show of force against the economic policies of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi&#39;s centre-right coalition government.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell abruptly canceled plans to attend the Olympics closing ceremony in Athens on Sunday, a visit that had triggered angry protests from anti-war groups.
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Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday praised a recent demonstration in Rome against proposed legislation granting legal rights to unmarried couples, including gay ones, saying it showed that traditional family was at the core of Italian society.Benedict called the May 12 Family Day rally, organized by Catholic groups and family associations, a 'great and extraordinary popular festival.'Hundreds of thousands of people turned out for the demonstration to protest a bill that would grant legal rights to unmarried couples, including hospital visits and inheritance rights. The bill does not legalize gay marriage, as was done in other European countries, such as Spain. Read more
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Anti-globalization and far-left activists from across Italy were converging on the capital Saturday to protest against President Bush during his visit to Rome and the Vatican.
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Some 20,000 Muslims held a "Pope, don't come" rally in Istanbul on Sunday in a peaceful protest against Pope Benedict's visit to Turkey this week.
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Some Catholic Church activists in Austria accused Pope Benedict of devoting too little time to hear ordinary churchgoers' concerns during a visit starting on Friday and said he was risking losing more of his flock.
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By April Bethea, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Jun. 17--Protestors this morning apparently stayed away from a Gastonia church that had been publicly criticized recently for a blackface performance.
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Orbital gravy train off the rails The British government has responded to MPs' concerns regarding the ongoing Galileo Euro sat nav programme. In the view of Her Majesty's ministers the scheme can't be stopped, so there isn't much point arguing about it.â¦
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Venice's more than 400 gondoliers, furious over a ban on overnight boating, stopped ferrying tourists around the lagoon city in protest on Saturday and briefly blocked the Grand Canal.
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Can't get to Milan to see Leonardo Da Vinci's masterpiece "The Last Supper?"
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Only satellite builders truly enthusiastic Reports from Brussels suggest that European and national officials are beginning to acknowledge the lack of any firm consensus regarding the funding - or even the need - for the planned Galileo Europe sat nav constellation.â¦
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Poland is blocking a move by all other EU countries to inaugurate a continent-wide day of protest against the death penalty, with the conservative and staunchly Roman Catholic government in Warsaw arguing for parallel European condemnation of abortion and euthanasia.
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The pope's top aide said Wednesday that Benedict XVI's reason for canceling a visit to a Rome university was that he did not want to create a pretext for further "unpleasant" protests by professors and students opposed to the religious leader speaking at a secular campus.
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Secretary of State Colin Power canceled a weekend visit to Greece Saturday just hours after demonstrators staged a protest march. Greece&#39;s foreign ministry said that Powell informed his Greek counterpart Petros