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UK One of two suspects in the Glasgow Airport attack was charged July 7. Dr. Bilal Abdulla was charged with conspiring to cause lethal explosions in connection with the June 30 attack. Another man, Kafeel Ahmed, is suspected of driving the gasoline-laden Jeep into the airport terminal but has not been charged.

THE NETHERLANDS The trial of a former Bosnian Muslim Army general, Rasim Delic, began July 9 at the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Reuters reported. The tribunal turned down prosecutors’ requests to move the trial to Sarajevo, where they said they would have more access to evidence. Delic is charged with overseeing the rape and murder of Bosnian Serbs and Croats by his troops during the Balkan Wars in 1992–95.
BELGIUM Police in eastern Belgium arrested a man July 5 after a dinner guest discovered the bodies of the host’s wife and 12-year-old stepson hidden in the home’s deep freezer, the Associated Press reported. The guest was attempting to store the dinner leftovers in the freezer when she made the chilling discovery.
 
FRANCE Judges searched the offices of former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin July 6, a day after searching his home, as part of an investigation over allegations that he tried to ruin Nicolas Sarkozy’s presidential campaign. De Villepin is accused of trying to use falsified documents to smear Sarkozy, according to The New York Times.
UK A London jury found four men guilty July 9 of attempting to blow up bombs on the city’s transit system July 21, 2005, the BBC reported. Muktar Said Ibrahim, 29, Yassin Omar, 26, Ramzi Mohammed, 25, and Hussain Osman, 28, were convicted of conspiracy to commit murder for trying to detonate bombs on three subway trains and a bus. Two weeks earlier, terrorist attacks on the same transit system had killed 52.   
UKRAINE The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry lifted its entry bans on a number of pro-Russian figures and activists for the sake of “further development in Russian-Ukrainian relations,” the RIA Novosti agency reported July 9. The list included individuals involved in “activities linked to attempts to undermine Ukraine’s territorial integrity,” the ministry said.  
RUSSIA The Black Sea resort town Sochi was chosen July 5 as the host of the 2014 Winter Olympics. President Vladimir Putin made an appearance at the International Olympic Committee’s session, held in Guatemala City July 4. The games are Russia’s first since the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
PORTUGAL Only one European site made the cut during a ceremony in Lisbon July 7 to announce the Seven New Wonders of the World. Besides the Colosseum in Rome, China’s Great Wall, Peru’s Machu Picchu, Brazil’s Statue of Christ the Redeemer, Jordan’s Petra, Mexico’s Chichen Itza and India’s Taj Mahal made the list. More than 100 million people worldwide voted over the Internet or by phone.
 
FRANCE President Sarkozy will go against a Bastille Day tradition and refuse to grant pardons to convicts, he announced July 8. Sarkozy’s two predecessors used the July 14 holiday as a day to grant mass pardons as a way of relieving prison overcrowding, Reuters reported. Prison officials warned Sarkozy’s decision could lead to jailhouse rioting.
GERMANY Parliament passed a bill July 6 that forbids drivers under 21 and with less than two years of driving experience to have any alcohol in their blood while driving. The zero-blood-alcohol limit will take effect Aug. 1. Violation could result in fines, license points and a prolonged driving probationary period.


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