Blog de Connard reports that the Ukrainian parliament has, after some arm-twisting, passed legislation designed to ease Ukraine's entry into the WTO [1].
Three malls in Budapest were evacuated after copycat bomb threats were called in [2], reports Pesticide.
The Daily Czech notes that Mikulas Dzurinda, the Slovak Prime Minister barely survived a no-confidence vote earlier this week [3]; apparently, 22 MPs didn't bother to show up for the vote.
Blogrel points us [4] to a blog written by American teen-aged missionaries in Armenia [5]; for many of these youths, it's the first time they've ever been to a foreign country.
Afghan Warrior has two stories of note: first, he reports that three Afghani journalists were arrested in Kunar province and apparently abused while in custody [6]; the specific charges against the journalists is unclear. On a more optimistic note, twenty Taliban commanders handed over their weapons and signed pledges to support the Afghan government [7] last week in western Afghanistan; they're only the latest former Taliban military troops to pledge allegiance to the government under an amnesty program.