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UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced Oct. 8 that the United Kingdom will halve its troop contingent in Iraq by next spring. UK troop levels in Iraq have dropped from 46,000 in March 2003 to 5,500 last May, the Associated Press reported. Officials said the country is considering complete withdrawal by the end of next year.

TURKEY Fighters from Kurdish separatist group PKK killed 13 Turkish soldiers Oct. 7, in an ambush near the border with Iraq. The BBC reported that clashes have been almost constant since Turkey upped troop levels in the region earlier this year. Since 1984, 30,000 people have been killed in the course of the conflict over the region’s autonomy.
ITALY Authorities are investigating a mafia clan for nuclear waste trafficking, The Guardian reported Oct. 9. A man who claimed to have been part of the ‘Ndrangheta mafia alleged that the ENEA state energy research agency paid mobsters to send drums of radioactive waste to Somalia. Investigators are searching for other drums they believe were secretly buried in the Basilicata region near Calabria.
UKRAINE After yearlong negotiations, the Ukrainian government settled a commercial dispute with Russian gas company Gazprom Oct. 8. The agreement follows a 2006 dispute that left Ukraine and parts of Europe cut off from Russian gas supply, the BBC reported.
FRANCE Lyon-based international police organization Interpol launched an unprecedented appeal Oct. 8 for public assistance to catch a man who raped boys in Vietnam and Cambodia. A German special crimes unit unscrambled photos posted on the Internet of a white man in his 30s or 40s with receding dark hair. Interpol chief Ronald Noble said all other means to identify the man had been exhausted.


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