Italy’s government announced it is indefinitely suspending plans to build the country’s first nuclear power plants—ahead of a June referendum on the atomic development plans, which the administration says is no longer necessary.
Even as the world is gripped by the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, Russia announced it will build a reactor in neighboring Belarus—where large areas still remain closed off due to the 1986 Chernobyl meltdown.
Some 60,000 Germans marched against nuclear power, forming a 45-kilometer human chain from Neckarwestheim power plant to the city of Stuttgart in Baden-Württemberg state.
Thousands of anti-fascists encircled Dresden to block a neo-Nazi “funeral march” commemorating the city’s 1945 bombardment, while fascists marched in Budapest to mark its fall to the Allies.
Thousands took to the streets in Milan and Belgrade to demand their respective governments step down—although the Italian protests played to the left and the Serbian to the populist right.
A Russian law enforcement official told Interfax that three North Caucasus natives are wanted in connection with the Moscow airport blast that claimed at least 35 lives.
Prime Minister Sali Berisha accused the opposition of fomenting “Tunisian scenarios” after three protesters were killed by police in the Albanian capital, Tirana.
Neo-Nazis have taken over the entire village of Jamel in northeastern Germany, and are running it as a “nationally liberated zone”—with no interference from authorities.
Belarussian dissidents are calling for sanctions against the regime, with 200 of the protesters arrested last month still being held—some 30 in special KGB political prisons.
From exile in Warsaw, Belarussian opposition activists demanded release of all dissidents arrested in last month’s wave of terror, and sanctions against the Lukashenko regime.
The NY Times reports that the US is warning foreign dissidents named in the WikiLeaks cables of possible repression—but fails to note that this is already happening in Belarus.
Italian authorities say an anarchist cell claimed responsibility for parcel bomb attacks on the Swiss and Chilean embassies in Rome, in which two staff members were injured.
