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GEORGIA A high-ranking Georgian defense official accused Russia of inciting conflict in the breakaway region of Abkhazia in an April 27 statement, the Associated Press (AP) reported. The statement came a day after Moscow announced it would take “all possible measures” to protect its citizens if war broke out. Russia has granted passports to most residents of Abkhazia and the region of South Ossetia.

SLOVAKIA Despite sharp criticism from media and watchdog groups, Slovak President Ivan Gašparovič signed into law a press bill limiting the freedom of print media April 25, the Slovak news server Mediálne.sk reported. The national journalists’ syndicate and publishers’ association are now turning to the Constitutional Court to repeal the law, which goes into effect June 1.
EU A demonstrator spacecraft for Europe’s proposed Galileo satellite navigation system was launched from Kazakhstan, the BBC reported April 26. The Giove-B satellite will test key technologies which will eventually be built into the 30 operational platforms forming the Galileo network. The system should be operational by the end of 2013.
GERMANY Berlin residents wanting to save the city’s historic Tempelhof airport from closing this year failed when not enough people voted in a referendum to make the outcome valid. While preliminary results indicated most ballots were cast in favor of keeping the airport, they accounted for only 21.7 percent of 2.4 million eligible voters, AP reported April 27. The closing is part of a plan for an airport southeast of the city, to be completed in 2011.
AUSTRIA The Amstetten man Josef Fritzl, who allegedly kept his daughter locked in a cellar for 24 years while he sexually abused her and possibly fathered seven children with her, is under arrest, the BBC reported April 27. Based on a letter in the daughter’s handwriting that followed her 1984 disappearance, police previously thought the girl had run away. The father released her after one of his granddaughters was hospitalized with a serious illness.


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