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CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri Feb 22, 2008 @ 8:24am neoform

BBC News -- The European Union has called on Serbia to protect foreign embassies following a day of violence in Belgrade. Serbs angered by Western support for Kosovo's secession set fire to the US embassy and attacked the UK, German, Croatian, Belgian and Turkish.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon May 12, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

SF Gate -- A pro-Western coalition determined to bring Serbia into the European Union made a surprisingly strong showing in parliamentary elections, but faced the specter of a protracted power struggle with rivals who vowed to join forces to form a government. Th.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Nov 29, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform

BBC News -- Rebels in Chad have warned the nascent European Union peacekeeping force they will fight it as a "foreign occupation army" if it sides with President Deby. The warning from the rebel Assembly of Forces for Change (RFC) follows a major battle with a dif.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Nov 1, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

MSNBC -- Thomas responded by saying the comments were "filled with inaccuracies" but did not elaborate until challenged by the head of the diplomats' union, the American Foreign Service Association (AFSA), who like Crotty and others, demanded to know why many lear.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Oct 1, 2007 @ 8:07am neoform

CNN -- United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has expressed outrage after Darfuri rebels killed at least 10 African Union soldiers in an unprecented attack on a peacekeeping base in the troubled Sudanese region. An African Union spokesman told CNN the casu.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Aug 21, 2007 @ 8:15am neoform

SF Gate -- Tens of thousands of Gaza Strip residents were without electricity Monday after the European Union stopped paying to supply fuel to a Gaza power station serving more than a fourth of the coastal enclave. It was not clear whether the European aid, cut o.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Jun 19, 2007 @ 8:21am neoform

Washington Post -- The United States yesterday lifted its embargo on direct aid to the Palestinian government, joining the European Union and other countries in a swift demonstration of support for embattled President Mahmoud Abbas in his struggle against the anti-Israeli m.. Read More

CONFLICTS / OPINION Mon Jun 4, 2007 @ 2:27pm neoform

Independent -- The University and College Union annual congress last week voted by a two-thirds majority to organise a campus tour for Palestinian academic trade unionists to explain why they had called for an academic and cultural boycott of Israel, and to encourage UC.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Apr 10, 2007 @ 3:09pm neoform

CNN -- Gunmen ambushed an African Union peacekeeping patrol Tuesday in Darfur, killing one soldier and critically injuring two others, the AU mission said. The three soldiers, from Rwanda's contingent to the AU mission, were part of a unit patrolling near a w.. Read More