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GEORGIA Russian peacekeeping forces dismantled one checkpoint and were at work removing several others Oct. 5, five days before a deadline for Russian troops to withdraw from buffer zones outside the separatist enclaves of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, The New York Times reported. The activity came two days after an explosion in Tskhinvali, the South Ossetian capital, killed eight Russian soldiers and three Ossetian civilians.

NORWAY The scientists who discovered the HIV virus will share the Nobel Prize for Medicine with the expert who linked human papilloma virus (HPV) to cervical cancer, the BBC reported Oct 6. French team Francoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier were recognized for their groundbreaking work in uncovering the virus responsible for AIDS, while Harald zur Hausen, from Germany, received the prize for making the link between HPV and cancer.
VATICAN Pope Benedict XVI told a meeting of bishops in Rome Oct. 6 that the global financial crisis is proof that the pursuit of money and success is pointless, the BBC reported. The pope criticized capitalist society, saying that those who seek success, career or money are building on sand. According to the pope, people should instead base their lives on God’s word.
EU The European Union opened its first immigration center outside Europe, in Mali’s capital, Bamako, Oct. 6, the BBC reported. So far, there are no jobs on offer and the office warns against the dangers of illegal immigration. Thousands of young West Africans try to make it to Europe illegally each year and many die on the way. The EU hopes that, in the future, the new center will help people find legal work in Europe.
AUSTRIA An Austrian man was arrested Oct. 4 on suspicion of burning his in-laws to death with a homemade flame-thrower, the BBC reported. Police said the 48-year-old used a propane gas container to torch the elderly couple as they lay in bed. The bedridden woman, who had lost both her legs to diabetes, died where she lay, but her husband, who tried to escape, was found in the garden. The suspect fled the scene but was found later, after stabbing himself in the stomach. He is in the hospital in an induced coma.


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