European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 11, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                June stars and stripes Page is spectators wave sunday to Welcome the first regular Tiv High Speed train As it enters the main station in regular traffic on the High Speed route from Paris to Stuttgart started with the trip Between the cities taking just 3 39 Myriam Vogue a French connection Bullet train makes Maiden trip from Paris to Germany the associated press France the Tiv High Speed train began commercial service be tween Paris and Strasbourg on nearly halving travel time Between the two cities to 2 hours 20 minutes and inking the Tiv network with the train made its Maiden voyage with 360 passengers on Board Early arriving on time and continuing on to the German City of said Anne spokeswoman for the Strasbourg the on which the Tiv broke its own world Speed record for conventional rail trains in april when the Bullet train reached 357 was inaugurated by prime minister fran Cois Fillon on Strasbourg just Over two hours from that was a he the dream is now the fastest previous connection Between the two cities took 4 trains on the new 252mile line reaching Strasbourg via Metz and Nancy with the first 186 Miles on dedicated High Speed travel at speeds of up to 199 different branches of the line also Cut travel time from Paris to several other european Cit the train to Frankfurt takes 3 hours 50 min utes and to 3 hours 40 min a trip to the Swiss City of Zurich takes 4 hours 30 planners now foresee a network of High Speed lines stretching from to the plans Are to create two axes that meet in Strasbourg one running Between Vienna and Budapest the other linking Frank Lyon and the eur has earmarked Tran european net much of it to five priority transcontinental rail which Are due to be completed by a new rail Bridge Over the Rhein River to Germany is expected to open in Napoleons sword Sells for million France a sword Napo Leon wore into Battle in Italy was sold on sunday for More than million at an auction South of the auction House the last of Napoleons swords in private it had an Esti mated value of Osen at auction House the buyer was not immediately the sword was carried by Napoleon who was not yet Emper or into the Battle of Marengo in june where he launched a Surprise attack to push the Austri an army from China says food shipment contaminated Beijing China said Satur Day it had rejected a shipment of Pistachios from the United states because it contained the lat est indication the government May be retaliating As chinese products Are turned Back from overseas because of safety con the state television which showed inspectors wearing face masks and sealing the ship Ping Container that held the Pista indicated an increasing push to show that other countries also have food safety on chinese food safety watch dog announced that shipments of health supplements and raisins from the had been returned or destroyed because they did not meet Quality control chivas food and drug safety record has come under scrutiny in recent months following the deaths of cats and dogs in the United states and Canada blamed on tainted chinese pet food Ingrodi from the associated press priest abducted in Philippines Milf islamic fighters suspected the associated press Philippines gun men abducted an italian roman Catholic priest on sunday As he travelled to a Remote Village in the Southern Philippines to celebrate police police and army officials blamed islamic militants for Gian Carlo Bossis but at least one prominent insurgent group denied was Riding his motor Cycle in Zamboanga Sib Ugay prov inces Payao about 500 Miles South of when about 10 armed men blocked his path and seized said senior superintendent Francisco Cristo the provincial police police received reports that the captors took the priest to nearby Cristobal adding that no demands have been made for Bossis and no one has claimed Cristobal said he suspected Moro islamic liberation front rebels who operate in Zamboanga despite a ceasefire agreement with the government he did not but said that Alsaid linked Abu Sayyar Ger notorious for Ransom kid Are not known to be Active in the the Milf is the largest mus Lim separatist group in the pre dominantly Catholic Moha Gher an Milf peace denied Hise group was behind the saying the Milf was trying to find out who had seized police and the military were coordinating land and sea patrols to search for Cristo bal Bossi who hails from the City of Milan was assigned As Parish priest of Payao in april and is a member of the Pon Tiricio Institute Missioni Cristobal Sandalo an official from Bossis appealed to his captors to free father Bossi is a Good Man and there is no reason to hold him against his he told the local Mindanao examiner Gianni russian president Vladimir leads Heads of state outside on from left Are presidents Viktor Sushchenko of Nur Sultan Naza Bayev of islam Karimov of Uzbekistan and Mikhail Aakash Vili of Dmitry love sky a Putin hosts neighbouring leaders the associated press Russia the Heads of 12 Exso Viet republics met sunday to discuss ways of reforming their Loose regional but the informal Summit Only underscored uncertainty Over the groupings formed on the ashes of the soviet the Moscow dominated Commonwealth Independent or has been unable to resolve Long running conflicts be tween its members and sceptics see it As Little More than a talking Armenia and Azerbaijan Are at loggerheads Over the disputed territory of Magorno Karabash and Russia has imposed a punishing transport and travel ban and eco nomic sanctions against the group includes All former soviet republics except the three Baltic in his opening remarks rus Sian president Vladimir Putin said the meeting would be devoted to economic cooperation be tween Cis adding there Are also other the Rian Vosti news Agency citing a unnamed rus Sian government that the presidents of Armenia and Azer Baijan held a rare meeting on the sidelines of the Summit to discuss the Magorno Karabash