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· BUENOS AIRES -- Mayor Anibal Ibarra was removed from office over allegations that poor government safety regulation contributed to the deaths of 194 people in a December 2004 nightclub fire.

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· LONDON -- Two workers at the security depot that was the site of Britain's biggest cash robbery have been arrested in the case, police said. A man who works for a firm contracted to the Securitas Cash Management warehouse and a woman who was a former employee of the unnamed firm were questioned and released on bail.

So far, 17 people have been arrested in connection with the Feb. 22 raid on the warehouse in the town of Tonbridge. More than $19 million of the $92 million stolen has been recovered, police said.

· PARIS -- Protesters opposed to a government plan to reduce joblessness by making it easier to fire young workers rallied throughout the country, disrupting airports, schools and the Paris Metro. Nearly 400,000 people took part in about 200 marches nationwide, police said.

· BERLIN -- Police raided more than 100 buildings across Germany in a hunt for suspected members of the banned neo-Nazi group Blood & Honor.

· VIENNA -- An Austrian cat that had twice tested positive for the H5N1 bird flu virus did not show the virus in a third test, the Health Ministry said, adding to uncertainty about the infection in cats.

· STRASBOURG, France -- The European Court of Human Rights ruled that a British woman has no right to use frozen embryos to have a baby without permission from the man who provided the sperm.


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