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EUROPEAN UNION Foreign policy head Javier Solana announced June 18 that the EU will resume economic aid to the Palestinian Authority after the dissolution of the coalition government in the Gaza strip. The decision comes in the wake of violent clashes between the secular Fatah group and Islamist group Hamas, which recently seized military control of Gaza.

RUSSIA A military court convicted four officers June 14 for killings in Chechnya, the New York Times reported. The officers killed six unarmed civilians in 2002 and burned their bodies. The case represents one of the few times Russian officers have been convicted for crimes in the region, where reports of torture and kidnapping are common.
FRANCE The conservative party of President Nicolas Sarkozy won a majority in parliamentary elections June 17, but failed to secure the landslide victory predicted by polls. According to the Associated Press, Sarkozy’s Union for a Popular Movement and its allies secured 346 of 577 seats in the National Assembly, while the opposition left won 226 seats. The surprise strength of the left may prompt Sarkozy to reshuffle his cabinet.
SERBIA General Djordjevic, a Serbian police general who is accused of ordering the killings of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo in 1998 and 1999, was arrested June 17 and sent to The Hague, Reuters reported. Another arrest in May spurred talks about closer ties between Serbia and the EU. More than 10,000 civilians died in the conflict.
SWITZERLAND The world’s longest rail tunnel on land opened June 15, the BBC reported. Loetschberg tunnel, under the Alps, will cut travel time between Italy and Germany by more than a third. About 42 passenger trains and up to 80 freight trains per day will pass through the tunnel once it is fully operational in December.


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