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Out of balance
Pension woes add to growing demands for judicial reform

Activist: High-rise plans will hurt city
ECM development project gets go-ahead from Culture Ministry

Radio Wave's legality questioned
Public station employees point to conflict of interest

Officials to start radar negotiations
Multifront campaign seeks to win support for U.S. missile shield

Schools change approach
Teachers to emphasize independent thinking

Filmmakers tour Asia by Trabant
Three men battle the elements during 15,000-km journey

City plans metro expansion
Network extension includes a new line and airport link

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SERBIA The International Committee of the Red Cross found that the 17,000 people missing since the 1992–99 Balkan Wars are still unaccounted for, The New York Times reported Aug. 29. Of those missing, more than 13,400 were from the Bosnian war, 2,300 were from related Croatian conflict and 2,047 people disappeared in Kosovo.

KOSOVO The UN has set a date for the ethnic Albanian minority in Kosovo to hold general elections, the BBC reported. The Nov. 17 elections will precede an international report on disputes regarding the province’s status. The UN’s head of administration in Kosovo said talks of the bid for independence would take priority, a measure Serbian officials have said they will not accept.
SPAIN Police arrested three men and one woman suspected of involvement with Basque armed separatist group ETA in southern France Sept. 1, the Associated Press reported. The militants are accused of orchestrating a December car bombing in a Madrid airport and a failed attack in eastern Spain last month.
RUSSIA Russia will not yield on what it considers “red line” issues, Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Sergei Lavrov said in a Sept. 3 speech in Moscow. The country opposes the construction of U.S. missile-defense bases in Poland and the Czech Republic and a UN plan for the independence of Kosovo, the BBC reported.  
GERMANY The country’s largest synagogue reopened Aug. 31 after a massive $6.9 million (139.5 million Kč) renovation. The temple, built in 1904, was set on fire during Kristallnacht and has not had a major renovation since. Germany’s Jewish population is now roughly half of what it was before the Holocaust, according to The New York Times.
ITALY Police arrested 32 people Aug. 30 in southern Italy in part to head off a feared mob war between two crime families. The arrests were related to the fatal shooting earlier in the month in Germany of six men connected to the families, and as part of an investigation into the ’Ndrangheta crime family.
FRANCE Former Prime Minister Pierre Messmer died in Paris Aug. 31 at the age of 91. Messmer was prime minister of the country 1972–74 and minister of the armed forces in the early 1960s. In World War II, Messmer was a member of the French Resistance and fought on Normandy’s beaches in 1944.

PROTEST Two rightist extremist groups protested against the Green Party in the city center Sept. 1, the Czech News Agency (ČTK) reported. Accusing the party of neo-Marxist sentiments, protesters brought attention to the dismissal of a policeman who attacked Green Party MP Kateřina Jacques during a 2006 May Day neo-Nazi demonstration.

TRAINS Two passenger trains collided on a one-track line in south Bohemia Sept. 1, leaving 13 people injured, ČTK reported. The conductor of one of the trains admitted he caused the accident but said he thought it was Sunday, a day when no trains are scheduled from the opposite direction.
OUTAGE All three metro lines were out of order Sept. 1 for a record 40 minutes due to a power outage, ČTK reported. Stations remained open during the outage, and passengers were notified via loudspeaker. The Prague Transport Company does not yet know the reasons for the outage.
MILITARY Defense Minister Vlasta Parkanová presented President Václav Klaus with a new military reform plan Sept. 3 in response to planned cuts in the defense ministry’s budget, ČTK reported. The preliminary plan eliminates more than one-third of the military’s six rescue battalions.
CABINET Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek announced Sept. 3 that he does not plan any major post shifts in the near future, the daily Právo reported. Topolánek praised Parkanová, Justice Minister Jiří Pospíšil and Education Minister Dana Kuchtová, thwarting media speculations that he planned to replace them.
RADAR Topolánek announced Sept. 3 his promise to provide development aid to the mayors of villages surrounding the planned U.S. radar base in the Brdy military training grounds in central Bohemia, according to ČTK. Topolánek said he did not want to create the impression that he was buying the locals by offering financial support.
SCHENGEN Local officials can access all Schengen database information as of Sept. 1 as part of the country’s 2004 entry into the European Union. The database of international warrants, missing persons and stolen contraband will be integrated into police and customs checks, according to ČTK.

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