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  • IRELAND -
    • Irish police arrested two members of the Czech Berdych gang Aug. 25. Tomáš Půta and Maroš Šulej are being prosecuted on several counts of armed robbery, while Půta also faces a murder charge. Both are now in custody in Ireland, while the Czech government is calling for their extradition. The Berdych gang, which included high-ranking police officers, became infamous in recent years for attacking and murdering wealthy businessmen.

  • POLAND -
    • Lech Wal´sa, Poland's president from 1990 to 1995, has quit the Solidarity trade union he helped start, which played an important role in toppling the communist regime in Eastern Europe in the late 1980s. He told journalists Aug. 23 that he was disappointed that Solidarity's members supported the right-wing Law and Justice Party in the country's election last fall.

  • UKRAINE -
    • Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko is accused of stealing $114 million (2.5 billion Kč) while in office from 1996 to 1997. A federal judge in San Francisco sentenced Lazarenko to nine years in prison Aug. 25 for money laundering, fraud and transporting stolen goods. U.S. authorities arrested Lazarenko seven years ago when he fled to the United States seeking asylum.

  • AUSTRIA -
    • A young woman who had been missing since 1998 has been found. Eighteen-year-old Natascha Kampusch told police she was held captive in a small basement room in a quiet residential community near Vienna for the past eight years. Kampusch's alleged captor committed suicide Aug. 23, just hours after Kampusch escaped and contacted authorities.

  • GERMANY -
    • German police arrested a third suspect Aug. 26 in connection with a plot to bomb two trains in Dortmund and Koblenz that police foiled July 31. The man, whose identity hasn't been released, is allegedly an associate of Youssef Muhammad el-Hajdib, arrested in Germany Aug. 19 in connection with the bomb plot. Lebanese authorities have detained another man suspected of being involved.

  • ITALY -
    • Up to 3,000 Italian troops will be deployed in Lebanon this week, as part of a peacekeeping force of 15,000 soldiers that European Union countries agreed to contribute to during a meeting in Brussels Aug. 25. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan praised Italy for agreeing to send so many troops. In total, EU countries are to supply 6,900 soldiers, though the Czech Republic has yet to commit any.

  • NETHERLANDS -
    • Dutch authorities said they are releasing 12 passengers who were arrested Aug. 23 after they aroused suspicion on a Northwest Airlines flight to India, prompting pilots to make an emergency landing. According to Dutch police, the men, all of whom were of Indian descent, were unruly but not planning any terrorist activities.

  • RUSSIA -
    • Russian authorities returned 117,519 mobile phones worth $15 million to Motorola Aug. 24, five months after the Interior Ministry seized more than 167,000 phones from the company, claiming they were counterfeit and a health hazard. All phones had been approved for sale in Russia. Motorola, which has slowed its investment in Russia in recent months, says it is still waiting for a clearer explanation.

  • SWITZERLAND -
    • Swiss regional transport officials took a train out of service after a 1-meter- (3.3-foot) long pet snake escaped from its owner Aug. 19 in one of the train's compartments. So far no one has been able to locate the snake, and the train remains out of service.


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