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...that it registered 298 "anti-Semitic acts" so far this year, compared to 108 for all of 2003. The desecration of three Jewish cemeteries in recent months was followed last week by an arson attack that destroyed a former synagogue serving as a soup kitchen and social center in eastern Paris. President Jacques Chirac and Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoë expressed outrage over the incidents, but outrage isn't enough for Jewish leaders or their communities. When the few cases of violence or vandalism that are prosecuted reach the courts, they claim, the courts don't take their concerns seriously...
...Summer Olympics, that Russia will fail to come first or second in the gold medal table in a non-boycotted Games. Some of the decline can be attributed to the end of the Soviet-era sports system, which poured almost unlimited finances - not to mention drugs - into athletics in Eastern Europe. By contrast, Australia grabbed 17 golds through Saturday - one more than it won at home in Sydney - and 49 medals overall. And a resurgent Japan won 15 golds through Saturday, an astonishing three times its tally in Sydney and five times more than in Atlanta...
...passed by the lower house of the U.S. Congress authorizes Washington to spend millions of dollars promoting human rights in the North and helping thousands of North Korean refugees?legislation an insecure Pyongyang says is calculated to encourage a mass exodus, like those that helped topple communist regimes in Eastern Europe in 1989. "The U.S. seems to calculate that it can use the issue of defectors for bringing down [North Korea]," said an unnamed Foreign Ministry official earlier this month on a Pyongyang-sanctioned website. "This is ... as foolish an act as trying...
...France, health-care reforms are getting people out onto the streets; in Germany, it's planned cutbacks in unemployment benefits. In cities such as Leipzig and Magdeburg in the eastern part of the country last week, around 30,000 took part in protest marches against the proposed cuts. Eastern Germany, with its 18.5% unemployment rate, is especially incensed about Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's plan to replace income-indexed benefits with flat-rate payments for the long-term unemployed. Schröder's Social Democratic Party (SPD) is bracing for a major setback when state elections are held next...
...five weeks away, but no date has yet been set for the arrival of the extra troops. Without them, Afghanistan's first democratic election could slide into mayhem - if the Taliban has its way. - By Tim McGirk Heavy Weather Typhoon Ranamin killed at least 115 people as it hit eastern China, destroying 42,000 homes and causing an estimated $1.85 billion in damage. In the U.S., Florida reeled from the impact of Hurricane Charley (below). Despite the evacuation of 1.4 million people, officials expected the death toll of 15 to rise. Initial estimates put the cost of repairs...