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DENMARK At least eight people were killed and more than a dozen wounded in a June 2 car bomb attack near the Danish Embassy in Islamabad, the BBC reported. The explosion caused extensive damage to the embassy building, wrecked several cars, and left a large crater outside the premises.

UK Police arrested 17 people and closed six Underground stations in London after a party involving thousands of people to mark the last day of drinking alcohol on the Tube turned ugly, the International Herald Tribune reported June 1. The ban was a key manifesto pledge of Boris Johnson’s campaign for mayor, and just days after his victory over Ken Livingstone he announced plans to enact the measure.
FRANCE Yves Saint Laurent, considered by many as the greatest fashion designer of the 20th century, died in Paris at the age of 71, the BBC reported June 2. Saint Laurent changed the face of the fashion industry when he became chief designer of the House of Dior at the age of 21. He retired from haute couture in 2002 and had been ill for some time.
GEORGIA In what Moscow officials are calling a humanitarian mission, 300 unarmed Russian troops were deployed to Georgia’s breakaway region of Abkhazia to help carry out repairs on the railway network, according to Russian Defense Ministry officials. Georgian officials are calling the move an “aggressive step,” the BBC reported May 31.
ITALY Italy’s famous leaning tower of Pisa has stopped moving for the first time in its 800-year history, the BBC reported May 28. Engineers who have worked on the 26 million euro project say the tower should remain stable for at least another 200 years. It took the team more than 10 years to extract some 70 metric tons of earth from the northern side of the structure to encourage the tower to right itself.
MACEDONIA One person was killed and several others wounded in a polling station gun battle during voting in a general election in the former Yugoslav republic, Reuters reported June 2. Voting has been called off in ethnically Albanian areas of Macedonia because of the unrest.
TURKEY U.S. President George W. Bush has used a U.S. drug trafficking law to impose financial sanctions on separatist Kurdish rebels in Turkey, the BBC reported May 30. The sanctions deny the PKK access to the U.S. financial system and block any transactions involving American companies and individuals. The PKK is branded a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States and the European Union.
CROATIA A court convicted former Croatian General Mirko Norac of committing war crimes against the Serbs during the Yugoslav conflict May 30, the BBC reported. Seen by the international community as a test of the country’s readiness to join the EU, Norac’s case marks the first time a high-ranking officer was convicted of such crimes in Croatia.
FRANCE Archaeologists discovered human remains while excavating a suspected mass grave in France believed to contain more than 400 British and Australian World War I troops, the BBC reported June 2. Experts believe the remains belonged to soldiers who died during the Battle of Fromelles in northeast France.
SWITZERLAND A law tightening citizenship requirements was rejected by Swiss voters June 1 in a public referendum, the BBC reported. Sixty-four percent of voters were against the reinstatement of approving citizenship by secret ballot, a law deemed unconstitutional in 2003.


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