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GEORGIA Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in Tbilisi Nov. 2 against the current government, demanding parliamentary elections early next year and chanting remarks hostile to President Mikheil Saakashvili, according to The New York Times. Saakashvili amended the constitution last year to extend Parliament’s term from next spring to next fall, to coincide with presidential elections.

RUSSIA The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe announced Nov. 2 that it would send a small crew of people to monitor the country’s Dec. 2 election. Moscow has said it will allow 70 monitors instead of the hundreds that had been allowed in the past, according to The New York Times.
POLAND Jarosław Kaczyński stepped down as the country’s prime minister Nov. 5 after a defeat in the polls Oct. 21. The prime minister designate, Donald Tusk, said in an interview that the new government will end the country’s participation in Iraq in its “current form” next year, according to Agence France Presse.
ITALY Prime Minister Romano Prodi signed an emergency decree Oct. 31 allowing the deportation of European Union citizens considered dangerous. The decree was prompted by the murder of an Italian woman, allegedly by a Romanian man. Since the decree was issued, several Romanians have been expelled from Italy.
NETHERLANDS The government suspended aid to Pakistan Nov. 5 in response to President Pervez Musharraf’s imposition of emergency rule Nov. 3. Officials suspended the remainder of the $22 million that should have been going to Pakistan this year as well as the $58 million it planned to give Pakistan next year mostly for educational and environmental purposes, according to the Associated Press.


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