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  • RUSSIA -
    • Chechen Shamil Basayev, accused of masterminding the 2004 Beslan school attack, was killed July 10, the Russian Federal Security Service said. Basayev, 41, claimed responsibility for the seizure of nearly 800 hostages in a Moscow theater in 2002, as well as the Beslan attack that killed 331. He also said he was responsible for a hospital attack that killed 100.

  • POLAND -
    • Polish President Lech Kaczynski appointed his twin brother Jaroslaw as prime minister after the July 10 resignation of Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz. Jaroslaw Kaczynski will now be able to appoint a new cabinet or reinstate existing ministers. Most Poles think he will be a worse prime minister than his predecessor, according to a July 8 survey. Marcinkiewicz will run for mayor of Warsaw this November.

  • GERMANY -
    • Germany passed a bill to increase the tax rate for its richest citizens July 10. Those who earn more than 250,000 euro ($318,000) will have to pay 45 percent in taxes starting in 2007. Germany hopes that the new tax will raise 18 billion euros from 2007 to 2010, enough to cut into the country's budget deficit.

  • RUSSIA -
    • Energy will be the central theme when the so-called Group of Eight (G8) meet for a summit in Moscow July 15, Russian President Vladimir Putin said. The country came under fire last winter when it shut off gas supplies to Ukraine after it sought to enforce market prices within the former satellite. Critics called the move revenge for Ukraine's pro-Western Orange Revolution in 2004.

  • GREECE -
    • The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles agreed July 10 to return two ancient sculptures to Greece. The sculptures were at the center of a cultural heritage dispute with Greece. The Greek Culture Minister Giorgos Voulgarakis said he hopes this decision will lead to more Greek works of art being returned by Getty and other museums in the future.

  • BULGARIA -
    • Bulgaria's cabinet has started discussing different options relating to natural gas supplies from Russia. Bulgaria has been in talks for the last year with the Russian energy giant Gazprom. But the European Union and energy ministers in Bulgaria, Turkey, Romania, Hungary and Austria also agreed June 26 to begin the construction of the Nabucco pipeline, which would decrease Europe's dependence on Russian gas.

  • SPAIN -
    • Spain became the 14th European Union member to report a case of bird flu with the deadly H5N1 virus July 7. Authorities say wild migratory birds are to blame for the spread. The Spanish Agricultural Ministry set up a three kilometer protection zone around the site and is monitoring birds and poultry in a 10 km (6.2 miles) radius, as agreed under EU measures.

  • UK -
    • London marked its first anniversary of the July 7 terrorist bomb attacks, which killed 52 people and injured more than 700 in the city's transit system. The ceremony was marked by candles and a 2-minute period of silence. London's police chief warned that another serious attack was likely in the city.

  • SERBIA -
    • Former Serbian President Milan Milutinovic, an ally of the late Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, went on trial at The Hague July 10 for war crimes in Kosovo in 1999. Milutinovic stands accused of the persecution and murder of ethnic Albanians and the forced deportation of some 800,000 civilians. He succeeded Milosevic as president of Serbia in 1997.


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