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RUSSIA A Moscow court sentenced serial killer Alexander Pichushkin to life imprisonment Oct. 29, the BBC reported. Nicknamed the “chessboard killer,” Pichushkin, a shop assistant, was found guilty of killing 48 people in Moscow’s suburbs between 1992 and 2006.

FRANCE The Chadian government charged 18 people Oct. 30 for their involvement with smuggling 103 children out of Chad to sell them for adoption, the BBC reported. French aid workers who spearheaded the operation said they believed the children to be orphans from Darfur.
UK Saudi Arabian King Abdullah accused the UK government of failing to act on information that could have prevented the attacks on London in July 2005, according to Bloomberg. Abdullah’s Oct. 29 visit marks the first state visit by a Saudi monarch to the United Kingdom in the past 20 years.
VATICAN Pope Benedict XVI urged Catholic pharmacists to use conscientious objections to avoid dispensing abortion pills and euthanasia drugs in an Oct. 29 speech, the Associated Press reported. Such behavior would prevent pharmacists from collaborating in supplying products for “clearly immoral purposes,” he said.
SPAIN Authorities arrested six North Africans suspected of propagating jihad on the Internet in a rural area in northern Spain Oct. 24, the International Herald Tribune reported. The arrests marked the first time Spanish police broke up a suspected recruiting and propaganda network operating chiefly online.
GERMANY German Chancellor Angela Merkel thwarted her coalition’s efforts to lower carbon emissions by vetoing a call for a speed limit on the country’s motorways Oct. 29, the BBC reported. Setting the speed limit at 80 mph would cause traffic jams and in effect cause more pollution, Merkel said.
FRANCE Distraught by questions about his recently divorced wife, French President Nicolas Sarkozy abruptly ended a “60 minutes” interview Oct. 29 aimed at introducing him to U.S. audiences, The New York Times reported. In the segment, Sarkozy was shown muttering in French before removing the microphone, and apparently called his press secretary an “idiot.”
RUSSIA Radioactive waste leaked from a tank onto a road at Mayak nuclear reprocessing plant in the Ural Mountains Oct. 29, the BBC reported. Local officials said a violation of safety rules was responsible for the leak and that nobody was harmed. The plant was the site of a major nuclear accident in 1957.


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