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GREECE Violence has erupted in many Greek cities after the fatal shooting of a 15-year-old Dec. 6, the BBC reported. Hundreds of students battled police forces in Thessaloniki, while protests also turned violent in Trikala, the port of Piraeus and on the island of Corfu. More protests are planned for later, including a mass rally by the Communist Party in Athens. Authorities have appealed for calm.

FRANCE The graves of 500 Muslim war veterans have been vandalized in northern France, BBC reported Dec. 8. Gravestones were daubed with swastikas and anti-Islamic slogans on the eve of Islam’s Eid al-Adha festival, when Muslims visit the graves of loved ones. French President Nicolas Sarkozy has condemned the attack, calling it “abject and revolting.”
UK Flights have been disrupted and passengers left stranded at Stansted Airport near London after climate-change protesters caused the runway to be closed, BBC reported Dec. 8. Police removed the protesters after several hours and arrested 57 of them, but flights were delayed for the rest of the day as the airport was recovering from the shock.
EU European warships and aircraft are due to launch anti-piracy patrols off the Somali coast, BBC reported Dec. 8. The EU will take over after the NATO mission for at least a year, marking the EU’s first naval operation. The area has seen almost 100 pirate attacks this year, but also several successful rescues conducted by international forces.
IRELAND European supermarkets were ordered Dec. 7 to clear their shelves of Irish bacon, ham and sausages after authorities announced that Irish pork products had been tainted with a cancer-causing dioxin, the International Herald Tribune (IHT) reported. Irish officials described the recall as precautionary, saying that only 10 percent of Irish pigs have been affected, but processing and mixing with other meats resulted in widespread contamination.
RUSSIA Thousands of Orthodox Christians flocked to pay tribute to Patriarch Alexiy II Dec. 7 as he lay in state in a Moscow cathedral, IHT reported. He revived the faith after the fall of the Soviet bloc, oversaw the construction of thousands of new churches and built close ties with the Kremlin, raising the prominence of Orthodoxy. He died Dec. 5 of heart failure.
NETHERLANDS Amsterdam unveiled plans Dec. 6 to close brothels, sex shops and marijuana cafés in its ancient city center as part of a major effort to drive organized crime out of the area, the New York Times reported. Authorities said that the measure would affect about 36 coffee shops — a little less than 20 percent of the city’s total.


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