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UK Government officials have said they’ll expel four Russian diplomats after Russia’s refusal to extradite a suspect in the poisoning of Russian exile Alexander Litvinenko in London, the BBC reported. The Foreign Office said other issues of cooperation with Russia will also be reviewed. Litvinenko died in November 2006 of polonium poisoning. British prosecutors requested the extradition of former KGB officer Andrei Lugovoi in May.

NETHERLANDS A former Serbian police officer pleaded not guilty July 16 to five charges of killing and persecuting ethnic Albanian civilians in Kosovo in 1999, the Associated Press reported. Vlastimir Djordjević, an aide to former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milošević, had earlier refused to submit a plea to the United Nations tribunal in The Hague. He was arrested in June in Montenegro after hiding for six years.
BULGARIA A ruling on the death sentence appeal of five Bulgarian nurses in Libya was delayed July 16, but a deal to free the women may be near, Reuters reported July 17. Compensation of $1 million (20.7 million Kč) per victim is reportedly part of the deal. The nurses and a Palestinian doctor have been in jail since 1999 and on death row since 2004, convicted of deliberately infecting more than 400 children with HIV. The nurses say the children were infected by unsanitary hospital practices.
UK Two suspects arrested in connection with attempted car-bomb terrorist attacks in London and Glasgow in June were released without charge July 15, the Associated Press reported. The two men were arrested at a hospital near Glasgow where Bilal Abdullah, a passenger in the car that slammed into the Glasgow Airport, worked.
BELARUS Secret police have broken up a Polish spy network that sought information on a Russian-Belarusian air-defense system, the Russian Interfax agency reported. Belarus’ KGB deputy chairman said July 15 that five former soldiers, both Russian and Belarusian citizens, had been arrested.
PORTUGAL A new law legalizing abortion came into effect July 15, legalizing abortions on fetuses up to 10 weeks old but giving doctors the right to refuse to do the procedure on moral grounds, Agence France-Presse reported. Initial reports found at least nine of 50 public hospitals would not guarantee they’d perform the procedure.
GREECE Strong winds continued to fan wildfires on mainland and island Greece July 14–15, with more than 100 fires reported, the Associated Press reported. The fires avoided inhabited areas and firefighters were able to extinguish every blaze, officials said.
FRANCE Unions representing Air France employees appealed to company shareholders July 12 to stop participating in the forced deportation of failed asylum claimants, Agence France-Presse reported. The unions say some employees have been traumatized by witnessing the process. A total of 6,000 people were deported in the first five months of this year, 2,200 of them under police escort, the interior minister said.
UK Briton Lewis Gordon Pugh became the first person to swim at the North Pole July 15, successfully completing a 1-kilometer (0.62 miles) swim in the –1.8 C (28.8 F) waters, the BBC reported. Pugh, who made the swim to draw attention to climate change, called it a “tragedy” that swimming in the once ice-choked North Pole was possible.
SPAIN Thirteen people were injured July 15 on the final day of the annual running of the bulls festival in Pamplona, the Associated Press reported. Included among the wounded were two American brothers who were gored simultaneously on either horn of a runaway bull. The last fatality in the traditional event, which dates back to 1591, was in 1995.


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