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...bidding through a front company. Once contracts are obtained, environmental activists say, Mob bosses defy laws meant to protect the ecosystem and maintain public-health standards. The mayor of Naples said: "If need be, I'll sweep the city myself." - By Jeff Israely/Naples E.U. HERE WE COME LITHUANIA AND SLOVAKIA Lithuania became the first former Soviet republic to vote to join the E.U., with more than 90% supporting the move. Officials had feared that there would be poor turnout for the referendum, but after 64% of the population cast their ballots, the celebrations began. And in Slovakia, fears about poor...
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...yacht called the Sunny Dream moored outside Cannes' famed Palais des Festivals, staff from Seattle-based Internet media company RealNetworks were last week demonstrating how cell phone users can watch live TV broadcasts over their handsets. The signal - a news broadcast from TV 3, a public station in Bratislava, Slovakia - was picked up by a server in Prague and compressed for viewing on a mobile phone. From there the signal was bounced to the subscribers' global packet radio switched (GPRS) network account in Warsaw, then transferred via automatic roaming to the Orange GPRS network in Cannes, and then...
...must sign. We will tie off your tubes. You won't have more children." Given no time to consider alternatives, and little explanation of the procedure, Plachetkova consented. "I had no choice," she says. "I had to sign." A 27-year-old mother of two from Svedlar in eastern Slovakia, Plachetkova is one of some 110 Roma women who allege that they were forcibly sterilized in Slovakia's public hospitals since the 1989 fall of communism. The allegations are contained in Body and Soul: Forced Sterilization and Other Assaults on Roma Reproductive Freedom, a report published last week...
...Central European countries were not doing enough to prevent terrorist groups from funneling men and money into the E.U. Jonathan Eyal, director of studies at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies in London, warns that the large numbers of Middle Eastern students in the Czech Republic, Romania, Slovakia and Bulgaria "could be breeding grounds for terrorist activities." The arrest in London of a North African who had lived in Slovakia for a year did nothing to dispel these fears. Rabah Kadre and two other North African Muslims were arrested under the Terrorism Act, but their specific offense remained...