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RUSSIA Moscow police arrested opposition leader Gary Kasparov and hundreds of demonstrators Nov. 26 amid countrywide protests against President Vladimir Putin’s government, the International Herald Tribune reported. The unrest came one week before Russia’s parliamentary elections.

UK A data leak in the UK tax agency has led to a loss of tax information of about 25 million citizens, a government spokesman announced Nov. 21. Although the data went astray in October, the government waited 10 days to inform the public of the loss, according to The New York Times (NYT).
FRANCE Almost 80 police officers were injured, six critically, Nov. 26 during another night of riots in north Paris suburbs, the BBC reported. The violence broke out Sunday after two teenagers died when their motorcycle collided with a police car. The unrest has resulted in damage to cars, two schools, a library and a police station.
DENMARK Two Danish Muslims and an Iraqi Kurd were sentenced Nov. 24 to between four and 11 years in prison for planning a terrorist attack in Copenhagen in response to newspaper cartoons they deemed offensive to the Prophet Muhammad. The men had planned to bomb the City Hall Square or Tivoli amusement park, according to NYT.
EUROPE Mariann Fischer Boel, European agriculture commissioner, warned farm ministers Nov. 26 that resistance to imports of genetically modified (GM) products was a factor in the increasing cost of raising livestock, and could threaten the meat industry, the International Herald Tribune reported. The warning renews the debate about whether Europe should impose tougher regulations on GM products than other areas of the world.
RUSSIA Deputy Finance Minister Sergei A. Storchak was charged Nov. 23 with conspiring to embezzle $43.4 million. Storchak, the country’s chief sovereign debt negotiator, had partly overseen the country’s $148 billion oil fund, according to the NYT. He was seen as a leading liberal in Putin’s government, the paper writes.


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