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Standing for equality
U.S. lawyer wins groundbreaking discrimination case for Romany students

Highway link eases Vienna commute
High-speed motorway connects Austrian capital with Bratislava

Radar base health risks not likely
Experts rebuff challenges to safety report on U.S. plans

Rallies draw crowds, police
Marchers demand radar vote

Naděje opens doors to relief center
Facility near main train station offers homeless daytime help and care

Theaters strapped for cash
After funding changes, cultural groups struggle to make ends meet

City to hike transit fares again in bid to offset fuel costs
Green critics predict Jan. 1 increase will lead to more motorists

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GREECE Turkish and Greek officials opened a 178-mile pipeline Nov. 18 that will provide natural gas to Europe from the Caspian Sea, bypassing the Middle East and Russia. The $300 million pipeline is expected to carry 250 million cubic meters of gas per year into Greece, according to The New York Times (NYT).

SERBIA The former guerrilla leader of a party supporting independence of Kosovo, Hashim Thaci, won parliamentary elections Nov. 18. Observers say the vote could lead to a showdown with Serbia over ethnic Albanians’ demands for independence, acc-ording to Reuters. Thaci, who is the favorite to become prime minister, said he would declare independence immediately upon taking office.
FRANCE A weeklong strike among France’s transportation unions left trains idle and traffic snarled, according to the NYT. Workers, who began the strike Nov. 14, are demanding a change in pension benefits, and are expected to meet with the state railroad operator for discussions this week.
UKRAINE Eighty miners are dead after a Nov. 18 blast at a coal mine in Donetsk, according to the NYT. The methane blast in one of the country’s largest mines reached more than 3,800 feet (1,158 meters) deep. As of Nov. 20, 20 miners were still trapped, while more than 360 managed to make it to the surface.
RUSSIA Western election observers announced Nov. 16 that they would not monitor Russia’s upcoming election because of restrictions imposed by the Kremlin, the NYT reports. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s cancellation may mean that the United States and some countries in Europe will not recognize the Dec. 2 election results.

BRIBED Former Deputy Prime Minister Jiří Čunek announced Nov. 19 his plans to sue daily newspaper Právo in response to an article suggesting police knew the motive for the 500,000 Kč bribe Čunek allegedly accepted when he was mayor of Vsetín, east Moravia. Earlier this month, Čunek resigned from his post amid accusations of abusing welfare benefits.

ELECTED Regional party delegates elected Prague Mayor Pavel Bém chairman of the city’s branch of the government’s ruling Civic Democratic Party (ODS) Nov. 19, according to the Czech News Agency (ČTK). His former opponent, Prague 13 district Mayor David Vodrážka, withdrew his candidacy prior to the vote.
SCANDAL The Prague bishop of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church resigned Nov. 19 after admitting last autumn that he solicited sex from a man, the online news server iDnes reported. The married bishop, 55-year-old Karel Bican, demanded sex from an ex-convict whom he helped upon his return from prison.
EDUCATION Green Party Chairman Martin Bursík has decided that senator and former Masaryk University rector Jiří Zlatuška will be the new education minister, the daily Právo reported Nov. 20, citing unnamed reliable sources. Zlatuška would replace Dana Kuchtová, who resigned in September.
FUNDING After years of ineffective use of European funds, Labor and Social Affairs Minister Petr Nečas announced Nov. 19 the ministry’s success in drawing all the allocated resources — 16 million euros ($23.5 million/427.2 million Kč) — from the 2007 EQUAL program, a European Union project promoting equal opportunity employment, according to ČTK.

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