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SERBIA Two people were killed and 10 were injured after a bomb went off in a Kosovo shopping mall Sept. 24. Police say they do not know who set it off. The bombing comes days before Serbia and Albania are scheduled to meet in New York City to discuss possible independence for Kosovo, according to The Guardian.

GERMANY Chancellor Angela Merkel met with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, in Berlin Sept. 23 for a closed meeting regarding human rights issues, The International Herald Tribune reported. Authorities in China, one of Germany’s greatest trading partners, harshly criticized the meeting.
POLAND The Foreign Ministry will not allow the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to monitor the country’s October parliamentary elections, Polish Foreign Ministry spokesmen announced Sept. 22, according to the BBC. The OSCE voiced surprise over Poland’s claim that it does not need the OSCE’s supervision because it is a well-established democracy.
GERMANY The government agreed Sept. 19 to pay people who worked in Nazi-era Jewish ghettoes about $2,800 ($54,768 Kč) each in what a spokesman called “a humanitarian gesture,” according to Reuters. The compensation was one of the last outstanding claims from the era and about 50,000 people are eligible, the news agency reports.
ITALY Unknown abductors released two Italian soldiers kidnapped in western Afghanistan Sept. 24, the BBC reported. The soldiers were abducted a day earlier after driving through a police checkpoint in the Shindand district of the Herat province. Both severely injured soldiers are being treated at a NATO hospital.
FRANCE Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner agreed with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Sept. 21 to step up pressure on Iran to halt its nuclear program. The diplomats met in Paris, less than a week after Kouchner mentioned the possibility of war with Iran and then retracted his statement, according to The New York Times.


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