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  • ITALY -
    • The country's chief intelligence officer, Nicolo Pollari, denied Aug. 6 that he aided the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in seizing a Muslim cleric in 2003. The CIA was after the cleric, Abu Omar, in connection with his terrorist activities. Pollari was questioned for four hours by prosecutors, who are investigating several high-ranking government officials who allegedly aided U.S. renditions.

  • UKRAINE -
    • Parliament approved Viktor Yanukovich as the country's new prime minister Aug. 4, creating an uneasy balance of power with the struggling government of President Viktor Yushchenko. Two years ago, Yanukovich was set to take the helm as the country's president after an election fraught with fraud, before the Orange Revolution overthrew him and installed Yushchenko. Yanukovich is now preaching unity with the ruling government.

  • POLAND -
    • The European Union criticized Polish President Lech Kaczynski Aug. 4 for recent comments he made that openly supported reinstating the death penalty. The European Commission leveled similar criticism two days before and said such a move would violate Poland's membership in the EU, which makes abolishing capital punishment a condition of membership.

  • UK -
    • An American Airlines flight from London to Boston had to return to Heathrow Airport Aug. 8 after U.S. authorities said one of its passengers had a name that matched someone on a security watch list. British authorities questioned four passengers on the plane, but made no arrests. The plane was not in danger, authorities said.

  • BELARUS -
    • A Belarusian court convicted four election workers from the country's presidential election in February, charging them Aug. 4 with inciting public demonstrations and sentencing them to terms ranging from six months to two years. Their arrest in February was the start of a massive crackdown on public protest following an election, widely seen as fraudulent, that handed President Aleksandr Lukashenka another term in office.

  • GERMANY -
    • A German court Aug. 7 granted asylum to a 27-year-old Iranian woman who claims she cannot return to Iran for fear of persecution because she is a lesbian. A judge in Stuttgart ruled that the likelihood of this persecution is very high, since homosexuality is condemned in the Muslim world. The woman, whose name was not released, has been living in Germany illegally since 2003.

  • SWEDEN -
    • Mijailo Mijailoviç, who stabbed the country's foreign minister, Anna Lindh, to death in 2003, was back in jail Aug. 3 serving a life sentence, after three years in a psychiatric care institution. Mijailovic, who was found to be deranged, is accused of beating another patient almost to death with a metal bar at the institution last year. A court recently ordered him removed from the hospital.

  • UK -
    • The country has seen its highest known settlement in a divorce case. The New York Times reported Aug. 4 that a court ordered insurance millionaire John Charman to pay $90 million (2 billion Kč), roughly 37 percent of his assets. Calling the decision grossly unfair, Charman vowed to appeal the ruling. His marriage to Beverley Charman lasted for 27 years.


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