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...resigned in June following the party's poor performance in European elections. Gross, at 34, is Europe 's youngest premier. Stemming the Tide LIBYA Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi met with Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi for talks on ways to stop illegal immigrants from Africa using Libya as a launch pad to reach Italy . A day earlier, a boat believed to have departed from Libya and carrying 275 migrants was intercepted off the coast of the Sicilian island of Lampedusa . Polio Resurgent AFRICA The World Health Organization warned of the threat of a polio epidemic as the virus returned...
...Russia's Racists You quoted Yuri Belyayev, the leader of the St. Petersburg neo-Nazi Freedom Party [Aug. 9], as saying that unless the Russian government recognizes his ultra-right-wing group and agrees to share power, the Nazis will be forced to "launch our version of Sinn Fein to keep talking to the government and our version of the I.R.A. to practice terror." This disturbed young man is grossly misinformed. The I.R.A. was not attempting to wipe out the Unionist population of Northern Ireland, but fought a guerrilla war against the British army to attain Irish sovereignty...
...immigration detention center in the city of Ushiku, about 50 km from the airport where he was nabbed. Japan's Minister of Justice is expected to rule in the next few weeks on Fischer's appeal against deportation. If the decision goes against Fischer, Bosnitch says his group will launch more legal challenges. They are also trying to get Fischer valid travel documents from a third country, which might prove to be a virtual get-out-of-jail-free card. While requests to a variety of countries for asylum have so far come to nothing, Bosnitch says a German passport...
...peaceful dialogue with the North has been chilled by the controversy, which prompted Pyongyang to accuse its neighbor of "international terrorism and an unpardonable human-rights abuse." Fearing the North might do more than hurl invective, South Korean intelligence officials issued an unusual warning last week that Pyongyang could launch a terrorist strike against South Korean citizens who aid refugees. South Korea has long blamed the North for a 1983 bomb blast in Myanmar that killed 17 South Korean officials, including four Cabinet ministers, and for the 1987 bombing of a Korean Air flight that killed 115 people...
...with flat sales volume in the U.S., its fledgling online-music business in Europe is also losing fizz. In Britain back in January, the soft-drink company inaugurated Mycokemusic.com which has so far sold about 530,000 tunes for $1.46 to $1.84 a pop. But then in June, Apple launched iTunes in Britain, France and Germany, offering a wider selection of songs for less money ($1.44 each). In its first week in Europe alone, iTunes sold 800,000 tracks. Napster and the Sony Connect store also have competing music sites, and WalMart and EasyGroup, parent company of EasyJet, are looking...