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Visitors usually liken the Postojna caves in southwestern Slovenia to the interior of a cathedral?cavernous, soaring, sublime. The caves, first opened to the public in 1819, are a 23-km warren of underground galleries, chambers and tunnels, all adorned with stalactites and stalagmites formed over the past 2 million years. In the 1820s, one of the largest chambers was the venue for grand balls, complete with candlelight and festive decorations. In those days visitors rode into the caves in horse-drawn carriages. With the installation of electric lighting a century ago, the largest and arguably most beautiful chamber became...
...Liberal was named last week as the E.U.'s first Counter-Terrorism Coordinator, charged in part with getting Europe's security services to work together in their campaign against terrorism. De Vries, 48, isn't the obvious choice. He spent four years, from 1998 to 2002, as Dutch Deputy Interior Minister. He has since served as the Dutch representative to the convention drafting the E.U. constitution. De Vries is well known as a defender of privacy and civil rights--which might reassure those who are worried about intrusive new antiterrorism laws but won't please those who think the police...
...renominate him and install Nicolas Sarkozy, the most ambitious figure on the French right, as Economics, Finance and Industry Minister. Except for Borloo, a politically unclassifiable figure with no standing in the ruling party, Chirac was largely content to reshuffle loyal followers. Dominique de Villepin moves to the Interior Ministry from foreign affairs, where he has been replaced by European Commissioner Michel Barnier. The very sameness in the Cabinet puts the incandescent Borloo center stage, but it could also hamper him. Sarkozy, burdened with a huge budget deficit, is unlikely to allow him the renewal projects that won him praise...
...organization's 55-year history, brought total membership to 26. Catching Up with ETA FRANCE French police, in conjunction with the Spanish Civil Guard, arrested three suspected members of the Basque separatist group ETA. Officers detained Félix Ignacio Esparza Luri - who acting Spanish Interior Minister Angel Acebes said was ETA's logistics chief - in the southwestern city of Dax . Former ETA leader Félix Alberto López de la Calle, who had been on the run since escaping house arrest in November 2000, was apprehended in the western town of Angoulême, along with suspected...
...corruption scandals, failed health reforms and planned austerity measures has seen his popularity plummet to 9% since taking office in 2001, announced he will be stepping down on May 2. Borowski said he would support the new administration - former Finance Minister Marek Belka, Foreign Minister Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz and Interior Minister Józef Oleksy are tipped as possible successors - but warned that he favored fresh elections "in case of failure to create a government enjoying satisfactory support." If a vote were held, the SDPL would take 19%, according to a poll published in the right-leaning daily Zycie, enough...