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UK UK military operations in Northern Ireland were set to end at midnight July 31. Operation Banner ran for 38 years and involved more than 300,000 personnel, 763 of whom were killed in the line of duty. A peacetime garrison of 5,000 soldiers will remain there under police control, the BBC reported.

RUSSIA President Vladimir Putin said July 25 that he plans to increase Russia’s military capacity and spy services in response to a U.S. proposal to base a missile shield in the Czech Republic and Poland. Putin’s intentions were posted on a Kremlin Web site after he met with Russian senior military officers.
BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA Thousands attended the mass funeral in Sarajevo July 28 for 147 victims of a Serbian ethnic-cleansing campaign in the early 1990s. All but one of the victims were Muslim Bosnians, and most died in a detention camp set up by Serb authorities, the Associated Press reported. The bodies were exhumed from various mass graves and identified through forensic DNA testing.
POLAND The European Commission (EC) began legal proceedings July 30 to halt the planned Polish construction of an international highway between Warsaw and Helsinki, Reuters reported. The EC asked the European Court of Justice to stop preparatory work on the highway, which would pass through a protected valley home to rare plants and animals.
RUSSIA The European Court of Human Rights July 26 ordered Russia to pay $200,000 (4.1 million Kč) to family members of 11 Chechens killed in February 2000, when contract soldiers raided a Grozny neighborhood and killed 50 civilians. The court said that by not prosecuting the soldiers Russia was acquiescent in the crime.
UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown met with U.S. President George W. Bush July 29 and 30 at Camp David. The official U.S. visit is the first Brown has made since he became prime minister in June. The leaders discussed Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, the crisis in Darfur and the status of Kosovo, according to The New York Times.
SPAIN A forest ranger confessed to starting a forest fire July 27 that burned 3,500 hectares (8,650 acres) of forest on the Canary Islands because his job contract was about to end, the Associated Press reported. Helicopters, a plane and more than 100 firefighters fought the blaze for days and at least 2,000 people were evacuated. Fires have also plagued Portugal, Bulgaria, Greece and Macedonia during a recent heat wave.
 


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