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LONDON (Reuters) – One of Europe's most powerful officials cautioned Prime Minister David Cameron on Thursday that leaving the European Union could cost Britain dear and that the bloc's other leaders do not want to renegotiate Europe's founding treaties. European Council President Herman Van Rompuy said Britain had a chance to play a leading role [...]
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Van Rompuy tells Britain: leaving EU “not free”
Posted by admin on February 28th, 2013
LONDON (Reuters) – One of Europe's most powerful officials cautioned Prime Minister David Cameron on Thursday that leaving the European Union could cost Britain dear and that the bloc's other leaders do not want to renegotiate Europe's founding treaties. European Council President Herman Van Rompuy said Britain had a chance to play a leading role [...]
Yemen Kidnappers free Swiss woman after Qatari mediation: agency
Posted by admin on February 28th, 2013
DOHA (Reuters) – A Swiss woman held hostage for nearly a year in Yemen has been freed by her kidnappers and flown to Doha following mediation by Qatar, the Qatari state news agency QNA reported late on Wednesday. Armed tribesmen had kidnapped the teacher in western Yemen in March last year to press their government [...]
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Is WTO about to abandon dream of global free trade?
Posted by admin on January 13th, 2013
GENEVA (Reuters) – As it seeks a new chief to lead it out of a negotiating death-spiral, the World Trade Organization looks doomed to be fatally undermined by new global carve-ups that will leave many of the world's poorest sidelined. At its creation 18 years ago, as the "third pillar" of the post-World War Two [...]
Russian activists detained at protest for free assembly
Posted by admin on December 31st, 2012
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian police detained a prominent opposition figure and several other people holding unauthorized protests in Moscow and St Petersburg on Monday to defend the right to assembly. Police grabbed Eduard Limonov, a leader of the Other Russia opposition movement, as he spoke to journalists shortly after arriving with a few dozen activists [...]
Russian police free child hostage, kill seven militants in Dagestan
Posted by admin on December 29th, 2012
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian security forces killed seven militants and freed a 6-year-old girl taken hostage in the restive Dagestan region of Russia’s volatile North Caucasus on Saturday, a national anti-terrorism committee official told Interfax news agency. The incident took place in an apartment building in the provincial capital of Makhachkala, according to the Interfax [...]
EU and Singapore agree free trade deal
Posted by admin on December 16th, 2012
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union and Singapore agreed terms of a free trade deal on Sunday, a move that should further open the Asian country’s markets for financial services and make it easier for European automakers to export there. “We have finalized the negotiations, and I’m very pleased with the result,” EU Trade Commissioner [...]
Casamance rebels free eight Senegalese prisoners
Posted by admin on December 9th, 2012
DAKAR (Reuters) – Separatist rebels in the south of Senegal released eight prisoners on Sunday in a first positive result from renewed peace talks seeking to end a three-decade-old, low-intensity conflict in the Casamance region. The Catholic Church’s Sant’Egidio community, which was asked by Senegal to act as mediator in the conflict, said in a [...]
U.N. rights boss urges Iran to free hunger-striking lawyer
Posted by admin on December 4th, 2012
GENEVA (Reuters) – The United Nations' top human rights official on Tuesday urged Iran to free an imprisoned female lawyer whose health is deteriorating due to a hunger strike and to lift a travel ban on her family. U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said she was concerned that the Iranian authorities appeared [...]
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