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RUSSIA Russia has conditionally agreed to remove its forces from Georgian land — excluding Abkhazia and South Ossetia — by the second week of October, the BBC reported Sept 8. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said the pull-out would happen as soon as the EU deploys 200 monitors to South Ossetia. He asked French President Nicolas Sarkozy for guarantees that Georgia would not use force again.

SPAIN Four demonstrators were arrested and a Civil Guard officer was injured Sept. 7 in a Madrid riot triggered by the killing of a Senegalese man in an apparent drug dispute, the Associated Press reported. The violence broke out after the stabbing death of a 28-year-old man from Senegal that led African immigrants to set fire to houses and cars. Police are looking for a man identified as a suspect in the killing.
SERBIA Tomislav Nikolić, the head of the main opposition party in Serbia, resigned Sept. 8 after senior colleagues refused to back the country’s efforts to join the EU, the BBC reported. Nikolic had recently persuaded his Serbian Radical Party to approve the ratification of an important agreement with the EU, but caused a revolt over the issue, which critics said meant abandoning Serbia’s claim to Kosovo.
UK A court found three British Muslim men guilty Sept. 8 of planning murder as part of a terrorist plot involving homemade liquid bombs, Reuters reported. After a five-month trial, Abdulla Ahmed Ali, Assad Sarwar and Tanvir Hussain were found guilty of planning to kill “persons unknown,” but the court failed to indict them on charges linked to the planning of attacks on transatlantic airlines.
GERMANY The German Defense Ministry paid $20,000 in compensation to families of three Afghan civilians killed last month by German troops at a checkpoint in the north of the country, magazine Der Spiegel reported Sept. 8. The ministry also said that one soldier is being investigated for the incident, during which soldiers shot at a car that refused to stop.
FRANCE A judge has ordered seven members of the Church of Scientology to stand trial on fraud charges, Reuters reported Sept. 8. The suit centers on a complaint by a woman who said she said she paid 140,000 francs in 1998 for “purification packs,” which she said were a fraud.  If found guilty, the church could be forced to stop its activity in the country.


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