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GEORGIA The Russian secret service agency FSA arrested a Georgian spy and accused Tbilisi of aiding rebels in the North Caucasus, the International Herald Tribune (IHT) reported. Russia’s claims follow a May 18 incident in which Georgia accused Russia of deploying heavy weaponry alongside its peacekeeping forces in Abkhazia and briefly detained a group of Russian soldiers.

GERMANY Speaking to a sold-out crowd of 7,000 in Nuremberg, the Dalai Lama called for religious tolerance May 18, the Associated Press reported. As the Tibetan spiritual leader continued his five-day tour of Germany, opposition leaders criticized the government’s decision to meet with him despite China’s complaints.
RUSSIA All 11 remaining members of a Russian doomsday cult left the cave they had been living in since October, Reuters reported May 16. The cult members, who call themselves “true Orthodox believers” and had predicted an apocalypse, had to leave the cave due to the overwhelming stench from two corpses of their comrades who died earlier.
EU Scientists are worried about new EU proposals that could drastically restrict the number of pesticides available to farmers, the BBC reported May 16. The registration process is changing and many commonly used chemicals are likely to fall out of use. Replacement products will take years to develop and farmers fear a food shortage.
SPAIN The lives of more than 820 people killed by the Basque separatist group ETA were commemorated in a May 18 Basque ceremony in northern Spain, the IHT reported. The most recent fatality attributed to ETA was that of a police officer who was killed in a car bombing outside a police barracks in a Basque village May 14.


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