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Suicide and suffering grip Europe's nation of orphans   THE HEADMASTER glanced around the classroom. "Hands up, those of you with parents who are working abroad,'' he told them. A forest of arms shot up; out of a class of 21 pupils at the school in Liteni in northern Romania, only three children kept their hands on the desks.   "Who do you stay with?'' the headmaster, Gheorghe Moga, asked. "My grandmother,'' replied one of the 10-year-olds with his hand in the air. "My cousin,'' said an 11-year-old. Mr Moga went around the room. Grandmother, cousin, grandmother, cousin ...   Romania, a nation mired in poverty, is counting the true cost of living on the edge of western Europe. Hundreds of thousands of parents are leaving their children with friends or relatives in order to go abroad in search of work.
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Horses left to starve after Romania bans carts from the roads   RIBS SHOWING clearly through their tattered flanks, the starving horses corralled on the edge of the eastern Romanian city of Galati are just a few days away from death.		Power struggle after PM admits tax cut lies   Power struggle follows demonstrations after prime minister admitted lying over tax cuts.	Czech Cold War survivors on front line   They made it through one cold war on the side of the Soviet Union, but now the people of the Czech Republic have been thrust back on to the front line of a new nuclear stand-off - this time on the side of the West.
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Turkey's 'creeping Islamisation' divides nation   It could have been a scene from any beach in Turkey: a cluster of young women reclining on sun-loungers, soaking up the midday rays, thumbing through novels and smoking cigarettes, while fellow holidaymakers splashed in the sea.		Illegal immigrants ready at EU's new border   The deputy commander of the European Union's new border post was anxious. "Is the camera switched on?" he whispered to his colleagues. Heads shook. "Sort it out," he ordered them quietly, not realising he was being overheard.	Separated by Stalin, lovers are finally reunited after 60 years   WHEN Anna Kozlova caught sight of the elderly man clambering out of a car in her home village of Borovlyanka in Siberia, she stopped dead in her tracks, convinced that her eyes were playing tricks. There, in front of her, was Boris, the man she had fallen in love with and married 60 years earlier. The last time she had seen him was three days after their wedding, when she kissed him goodbye and sent him off to rejoin his Red Army unit.
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Damage caused during theft is no stain on the value of The Scream   EDVARD Munch's most famous painting, The Scream, is damaged beyond repair. Four years after it was stolen in an armed raid on an Oslo museum, and two years after Norwegian police found it, scratched and water-damaged, conservators have told The Sunday Telegraph there is nothing more they can do to restore what is undoubtedly one of the most recognisable paintings in the world.		Secret deal to persuade Ireland on EU treaty   Leaked memos and French threat to Celtic Tiger economy could scupper Brussels-Dublin manoeuvring over EU treaty	Quelle difference!   Since his election 100 days ago, Nicolas Sarkozy has swept like a whirlwind through France and across the international arena
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Murdered Polish nurse came to the UK looking for a better life   It was in the little notes she wrote home to her family in Poland that Magda Pniewska revealed the silent anguish behind the smiling face of a young woman who had travelled to Britain in search of a better life. "I wish I could be back home with you," Magda wrote to her parents in the little town of Brzeg. "I love you, I miss you."		Serbia on a knife edge   THE MAN who would be president of a new Greater Serbia had his head in his hands. Each time he started to speak, troublesome sidekicks interrupted to quibble over points of historical accuracy, a constant obsession in a country still fixated on grievances of the past.	Ethnic 'cleansing' threat to Serbs in Kosovo   Tens of thousands of Serbs are preparing to flee the troubled Balkan province of Kosovo because of fears that the region is on the brink of a devastating war. Talks to find a political solution to the future of the region collapsed last week, eight years after Nato intervened to end violence that left more than 2,000 dead.
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Blood of Beslan's innocents   The roof came down, fires started. Bodies lay charred and burned beneath the debris and children in their underwear fled from the building as gunfire crackled around them. Smoke poured from the wrecked building. More than 100 bodies were said to be lying in the gym while outside the bodies of more dead children lay on stretchers. Mothers held them and wept.		Mass murder in Madrid   The bombs started exploding about 7.30am yesterday - three days before Spain is due to go to the polls - in a train arriving at Atocha station, a bustling hub, and at trains or on platforms at two stations on a commuter line leading to Atocha. It was carnage.	Come, friendly bombs, say the people of Putin's outpost in the West   WITH THEIR economy thriving and rising hopes of closer ties with the rest of Europe, citizens of the isolated Russian outpost of Kaliningrad could have been forgiven a collective shudder last week when Moscow threatened to send them back into the front line of a new Cold War.
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