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  »  G8: 'Investment In Health Is Effective Aid'
     GENEVA, Jul 3 (IPS) - Japan wants next week's summit of seven major western industrial nations and Russia (G8) to urge the international community to push towards combating HIV/AIDS. It sees this as a critical objective of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that are meant to be achieved by 2015.
  »  DEVELOPMENT: 'African Agriculture Needs Green Growth'
     BRUSSELS, Jul 3 (IPS) - Caution needs to be exercised in developing African food production to avoid long-term social and environmental harm, according to an ecologist credited with averting mass hunger on the continent.
  »  BULGARIA: Hate Wave Threatens New Gay Pride
     BUCHAREST, Jul 3 (IPS) - The attack on Bulgarian gays at their first gay pride march is symptomatic of widespread opposition to the movement.
  »  MIGRATION-SOUTH AMERICA: Summit Protests EU ?Return Directive?
     SAN MIGUEL DE TUCUMÁN, Argentina, Jul 2 (IPS) - European Union immigration policy was unanimously rejected in strong terms by the presidents of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) and associate countries, meeting in Argentina.
  »  RIGHTS: France Offers Europe an 'Inhuman' Model
     PARIS, Jul 2 (IPS) - The French government, which assumed the six-month rotating presidency of the EU Jul. 1, is trying to expand its tough policy against immigration and asylum to all of the EU.
  »  NORWAY: Farmed Salmon In Hot Water
     OSLO, Jul 2 (IPS) - Environmental damage, diseases or workers rights abuses are common at fish farms in Chile and Canada operated by the world's largest salmon company, according to activists.
  »  MIGRATION-GERMANY: Some Uneasy Over New Citizenship Test
     BERLIN, Jun 30 (IPS) - What are the colours of the German flag and how are they displayed? Who composed the Ninth Symphony and the "Ode to Joy"? What is the population of this country?
  »  MIDEAST: Israelis Assault Award Winning IPS Journalist
     GAZA CITY, Jun 28 (IPS) - Mohammed Omer, the Gaza correspondent of IPS, and joint winner of the 2008 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism, was strip-searched at gunpoint, assaulted and abused by Israeli security officials at the Allenby border crossing between Jordan and the West Bank on Thursday as he tried to return home to Gaza.
  »  HEALTH-PORTUGAL: Latin American Doctors Fill the Breach
     LISBON, Jun 27 (IPS) - Portugal is trying to fill the vacuum left by the departure of many of the 2,000 Spanish doctors who have been contributing to the normal functioning of hospitals and clinics in the interior of the country, with Argentine, Cuban and Uruguayan doctors.
  »  ENVIRONMENT-EUROPE: Mobile Phones Change Birds' Tune
     BERLIN, Jun 27 (Tierramérica) - Many wild birds are able to imitate the simple ringtones of mobile telephones, German ornithologists report, underscoring the influence of humans on the evolution of birds.



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Slovakia

Population: 5.4m
UK Slovak Pop: ?
Size: 48,845 sq km
Capital: Bratislava, 0.4m
Per Capita $15,800/£8,020
Language: Slovak 84%
Religions: Roman Catholic 69%, Protestant 11%
Internet users: 0.7million

Czech Republic

Population: 10.2m
UK Czech Pop: ?
Size: 78,866 sq km
Capital: Prague, 1.3m
Per Capita $21,900/£11,110
Language: Czech
Religions: Roman Catholic 27%, Protestant 2%
Internet users: 5.1million

Poland

Population: 38.5m
UK Polish Pop: estimated 0.75m
Size: 312,685 sq km
Capital: Warsaw, 2.2m
Per Capita $12,700/£6,446
Language: Polish 98%
Religions: Roman Catholic 90%
Internet users: 6.4 million

Russia

Population: 144m
UK Russian Pop: ?
Size: 17,075,200 sq km
Capital: Moscow, 10.7m
Per Capita $10,700/£5,430
Language: Russian 100%
Religions: Russian Orthodox 15%–20%
Internet users: 18 million

Hungary

Population: 10m
UK Hungarian Pop: ?
Size: 93,030 sq km
Capital: Budapest, 2.6m
Per Capita $16,100/£8,173
Language: Magyar (Hungarian) 94%
Religions: Roman Catholic 52%
Internet users: 1.6 million

Romania

Population: 22.3m
UK Romanian Pop: ?
Size: 237,500 sq km
Capital: Bucharest, 2.2m
Per Capita $8,400/£4260
Language: Romanian (official), Hungarian, German
Religions: Romanian Orthodox 87%
Internet users: 1million

Ukraine

Population: 46.7m
UK Ukrainian Pop: ?
Size: 603,700 sq km
Capital: Keiv, 3.2m
Per Capita $6,800/£3450
Language: Ukrainian 67%, Russian 24%
Religions: Ukrainian Orthodox (Kiev Patriarchate) 19%
Internet users: 1million

Lithuania

Population: 3.6m
UK Lithuania Pop: ?
Size: 65,200 sq km
Capital: Vilnius, 0.5m
Per Capita $13,900/£7055
Language: Lithuanian 82% (official), Russian 8%, Polish 6%
Religions: Roman Catholic 79%, Russian Orthodox 4%
Internet users: 340,000

Estonia

Population: 1.3m
UK Estonia Pop: ?
Size: 43,211 sq km
Capital: Tallinn, 0.5m
Per Capita $16,400/£8325
Language: Estonian 67% (official), Russian 30%
Religions: Evangelical Lutheran 14%, Russian Orthodox 13%
Internet users: 440,000

Bulgaria

Population: 7.3m
UK Bulgarian Pop: 30,000
Size: 110,549 sq km
Capital: Sofia, 1.1m
Per Capita $10,400/£5279
Language: Bulgarian 85%, Turkish 10%
Religions: Bulgarian Orthodox 83%, Islam 12%
Internet users: 2.2m