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  • GERMANY -
    • Authorities investigating a foiled plot last month to blow up passenger trains on two routes in western Germany said Sept. 2 that the three suspects in custody were retaliating against the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad across Europe. Those cartoons, initially published in a Danish newspaper last year, sparked outrage and protests across the Muslim world.

  • RUSSIA -
    • The country's defense minister said Sept. 1 that imposing sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program would be ineffective and urged further negotiations, even as a United Nations–backed deadline for Iran to dismantle its program passed. The five permanent members of the UN Security Council are to meet in Berlin Sept. 7 to discuss the next move.

  • POLAND -
    • Since May 2004, 100,000 Poles have emigrated to Ireland in search of jobs, leading Education Ministry State Secretary Slawomir Klosowki to announce plans Aug. 31 to build a Polish school in Dublin for immigrants' children. Klosowki said the school could be ready by the 2007–08 academic year.

  • UK -
    • British authorities arrested 14 people Sept. 2 in connection with what they described as "jihad" plots in London. Following the arrests, police focused their attention on an Islamic School in Mark Cross, England, which has hosted Islamic militants in the past. Police reported no arrests at the school, however.

  • FRANCE -
    • A habitual criminal given a reprieve from deportation by the French government stole a police car Aug. 31 and drove it at several officers who were guarding Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin. The incident brought the immigration policies of Nicolas Sarkozy, the Interior Minister who is running for president, under heavy fire, because he was the one who saved the man from being deported months ago.

  • AUSTRIA -
    • Eighteen-year-old Natascha Kampusch has spoken of her eight years of captivity in the hands of a kidnapper just outside Vienna, but has revealed few details as to her ordeal. She said that she spent every day cooking and cleaning for her captor, but that she had time to school herself. Kampusch, kidnapped in 1998, escaped late last month. Her captor killed himself soon after.

  • NORWAY -
    • Edvard Munch's famous expressionist paintings The Scream and Madonna were returned to the Munch Museum in Oslo Aug. 31, two years after a highly publicized heist. Police have yet to make any arrests in the case. Norwegians praised the recovery, even as police were unable to offer details on how exactly the works were recovered.

  • VATICAN -
    • In a surprising departure, Pope Benedict XVI was one of the featured attendees of a three-day conference on evolution that began Sept. 1 in Rome. Experts say the Pope appears to be more receptive to the theories of evolution, which the Catholic Church staunchly opposes, than his predecessors. No official church position came out of the conference.

  • BULGARIA -
    • A 17-year-old Bulgarian on her way by plane from the capital, Sofia, to Malta Sept. 1 slept through her landing there and woke up back in Sofia. Malta Air charged her $250 (5,495 Kč) for the return trip, which sparked outrage from the girl's mother. "I have not seen any signs saying 'No sleeping,' " the mother said. "I have only seen signs saying 'No smoking.'"


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