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...ANDREA FELAPPI, Médecins sans Frontières nurse
...with Israel. Israelis blame Europe for being pusillanimous and pro-Palestinian; Europeans blame Israel for being harsh and inhuman. Yet their ties are inextricable. "Israel is a product of the Shoah, and the Shoah is a product of Europe," says Rony Brauman, former president of Médecins sans Frontières and a fierce Jewish critic of Israel. Chirac's initiative on anti-Semitism may help tear down one obstacle to better relations between Europe and Israel. But a new one is going up in the form of the security fence in the West Bank...
...city's historic Semper Opera House and Zwinger Gallery, with its great art collection. Across southeastern Germany, floods have forced more than 30,000 people from their homes and killed 11. RUSSIA Aid Worker Seized A Dutch employee of the international medical aid group Médecins Sans Frontières was abducted in the republic of Dagestan in southern Russia. Peter-Arjan Erkel, 32, head of the M.S.F. mission in Dagestan, was seized by three gunmen in the suburbs of Makhachkala, the regional capital. Following the abduction, M.S.F. suspended aid work throughout Russia's North Caucasus region. Dagestan borders...
...likely create a patchwork of laws." For example, he says, data might need to be retained for anywhere from 90 days - the usual period for billing purposes - to seven years. Press-freedom groups, whose interests include the protection of news sources, are concerned as well. Paris-based Reporters sans Frontières urges telecom and Internet firms to refuse to submit to the legislation. British Telecom feels like "piggy-in-the-middle," a company spokesman says, but still must comply with the law. As the debate heats up, users of the hundreds of millions of phones and e-mail accounts...
...multinationals also have to contend with competition from generic drug makers. The Indian company Cipla plans to sell its versions of a triple-drug anti-AIDS cocktail to Médecins sans Frontières for $600 a year per patient - $200 cheaper than the least expensive brand-name cocktail. "We are offering the drugs at a humanitarian price," says Cipla chairman Yusuf K. Hamied. GlaxoSmithKline and Bristol-Myers have threatened to sue Cipla; they fear that a flood of cheap imitations in Africa could create a global black market for AIDS drugs that could undercut prices in the developed...