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  • UK -
    • The United Kingdom lowered its countrywide security level from "critical" to "severe," five days after authorities foiled a terrorist plot to blow up as many as 10 aircraft bound for the United States using liquid explosives Aug. 10. Twenty-three suspects remain in custody, as police investigate the case. UK law enforcement officials have said that the threat of similar terrorist attempts is still substantial.

  • FRANCE -
    • The French Interior Ministry has received some 24,000 residency applications from illegal immigrants. Immigrants who have children attending French schools had until Aug. 11 to meet an amnesty deadline that would let them legalize their status in the country. The ministry said it would issue residency permits to about a quarter of the applicants.

  • SLOVAKIA -
    • Government officials are planning to establish an office for ethnic minorities, Slovak Deputy Prime Minister Dusan Caplovic said Aug. 14. He did not specify the tasks the new office would undertake, but said its creation would take two to three years. Ethic minorities make up nearly 15 percent of Slovakia's 5 million citizens.

  • POLAND -
    • The European Commission (EC) criticized Poland Aug. 11 for failing to meet its European Union commitments to protect natural habitats. The country has put more than 100 endangered species in further jeopardy, the EC said. Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski told environmental groups last week that the number of protected habitats in the country should be cut to make way for roads and other projects.

  • UKRAINE -
    • A gas explosion killed six miners and injured seven others Aug. 13 at a coal mine in eastern Ukraine. The remaining 158 miners were safely evacuated. Ukraine has some of the world's most dangerous mines due to poor safety standards and outdated equipment. Nearly 4,300 miners have been killed in accidents in the country since 1991.

  • RUSSIA -
    • Drawings worth several million dollars were stolen from a Russian national archive and only noticed when some of the items were sold at a London auction house, Russian officials said Aug. 15. The announcement came one week after a separate theft at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, raising questions about the security of artwork around the country.

  • NETHERLANDS -
    • Dutch national television broadcaster TV NOS had to apologize Aug. 12 after wrongly reporting that the mayor of Utrecht, Annie Brouwer, had died after being hospitalized with Legionnaire's disease. NOS said the wrong information was based on an anonymous e-mail.

  • GREENLAND -
    • Greenland, an autonomous province of Denmark, is seeing its ice cap melting at an increasing rate, which is responsible for rising sea levels. Scientists from the University of Texas in Austin measured the ice cap and concluded it is losing around 57 cubic miles (238 cubic kilometers) annually. NASA scientists confirmed the trend.


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