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UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced Sept. 10 that new immigration laws will require skilled workers from non-European Union countries to demonstrate that they can speak English before being issued a work permit. Of the 96,000 skilled workers who came to Britain last year, about 35,000 would have failed the test, according to The Sunday Telegraph.

ITALY Famed tenor Luciano Pavarotti died Sept. 6 at the age of 71 in his home near Modena after battling pancreatic cancer for a year. More than 100,000 visitors paid their respects to Pavarotti before his Sept. 8 funeral in Modena’s cathedral, according to The New York Times (NYT). He was buried in Montale Rangone cemetery, next to his parents and a stillborn son.
GERMANY Authorities announced Sept. 5 that they had prevented imminent, large-scale terrorist attacks on targets in Germany when they arrested three suspects — two Germans and one Turk — the previous day and confiscated explosive chemicals and detonators. The suspects, said to be part of a Central Asian Islamist group, were allegedly targeting airports, pubs, and discos frequented by U.S. citizens, the Associated Press reported.
SERBIA Serbian State Secretary Dušan Proroković announced Sep. 5 that the country was prepared to use force to prevent Western countries from recognizing Kosovo as an independent state, the NYT reported. The announcement comes amid a deadlock in UN talks between Russia, the EU and the United States regarding the validity of Kosovo’s Albanian-led government.
TURKEY Turkish police found a van stuffed with explosives in a multistory garage in Ankara’s center Sep. 11, the BBC reported. The city’s security has been tightened in light of the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States.


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