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...forge a coalition with smaller parties. Kostunica, though a lifelong opponent of Milosevic, has a nationalist streak of his own. He took DSS out of the current government in 2001 and has spent much of the last three years complaining about anti-Serb bias in the West. A parliament in which his party and the Radicals hold the largest number of seats will almost certainly sour the country's relations with its neighbors, the European Union and Washington at a time when the aid-dependent, recession-prone economy can least afford it. The country's sense of outrage climaxed...
...which once cultivated the group as a proxy militia in their 15-year war against Kurdish separatists. That old association probably accounts for the astonishing speed with which police rounded up their suspects. "These men were known to [the police]," says Emin Sirin, a former minister in Turkey's Parliament. "They are no strangers...
University students staged a sit-in at Berlin's historic City Hall last week, blasting whistles and shouting slogans and holding out until they were dragged away by police. In London, students protested in Parliament Square. And for weeks now in Paris, thousands of striking students have filled the boulevards, marching with signs and banners and chanting "all together!" Europeans are used to seeing students on the streets pushing for radical change, but these young people want to preserve the status quo. They're protesting government plans to reform their higher-education system - plans that in some cases place...
...Europe's catwalks is cats - or, for that matter, dogs. But cat and dog fur is regularly used as trim or linings for gloves, boots, hats, jackets and other items made from pelts imported mostly from China, the Philippines and Thailand. Struan Stevenson, a Scottish Member of the European Parliament who wants an E.U.-wide ban on such imports, has a coat made of Alsatian skin (bought in Berlin), a rug made from four golden retrievers (from Copenhagen), individual cat pelts (obtained in Barcelona) and kitten-in-a-basket novelties made from dog fur. "I have personally bought these little...
...positive effects of increased access can be seen in France, where emergency contraception has been available since the early 1970s. In 1999, the French parliament made the medication available without a prescription. And a year later, high-school nurses were given permission to provide the drug without parental consent. France’s abortion rate is now one of the lowest in the world—and half the U.S. rate...