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RUSSIA The government disqualified the leading opposition presidential candidate Jan. 27 from appearing on the election ballot, saying 13 percent of signatures collected in his support were invalid. The Central Election Commission’s decision against Mikhail Kasyanov has cleared the way for the Kremlin’s candidate, Dmitri Medvedev, to run virtually unchallenged, according to The New York Times (NYT).

GERMANY The man believed to be the last German World War I veteran died in January in Cologne, according to a Jan. 27 Associated Press report. Erich Kästner was 107 years old. He entered the army in 1918 and was sent to the Western Front but never to the front lines, according to his son.
ITALY After losing a confidence vote Jan. 24, Prime Minister Romano Prodi resigned. Prodi, from the center-left party, lost the vote 161 to 156, ending his 20-month tenure in the post, according to the NYT. Leaders then mulled whether to hold a new election, which former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is favored to win.
UK Protesting a government decision over pay, more than 22,500 police officers from across the country marched through central London Jan. 23, according to Bloomberg News. The protest was the first over pay in six years. The government’s decision against backdating the officers’ annual raise effectively limited the increase to 1.9 percent.
FRANCE A former trader who is believed to have cost a French bank $7.2 billion surrendered to police Jan. 27. Jerome Kerviel, who worked at Société Générale, is alleged to have orchestrated an elaborate fraud over the past year that involved betting on European stock index futures, according to the NYT. The bank uncovered the scheme Jan. 18.


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