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BBC News
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Irish Foreign Minister Micheal Martin has said it is "far too early" to seek a solution to the Irish rejection of a European Union reform treaty.
He spoke ahead of talks by EU foreign ministers on how to respond to the Irish No vote on the Lisbon Treat..
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BBC News
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People in the Irish Republic are voting in a referendum on whether to ratify the European Union reform treaty, in a poll anxiously watched across the EU.
All other 26 member states have left the issue to their parliaments, but Ireland is obliged to hol..
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BBC News
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has suspended the application of a key Cold War arms control treaty.
Mr Putin signed a decree citing "exceptional circumstances" affecting security as the reason for the move.
Russia has been angered by US plans to b..
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BBC News
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France has signed an extradition treaty with China despite concerns expressed by human rights groups over Beijing's use of the death penalty.
France's justice minister said a suspect would be extradited in cases punishable by death only if China guaran..
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Yahoo News
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Forty-six nations adopted a declaration Friday calling for a 2008 treaty banning cluster bombs, saying the weapons kill and maim long after conflicts end and inflict "unacceptable harm" on civilians, particularly children. Some key arms makers — incl..
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MSNBC
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Nearly 60 countries signed a treaty on Tuesday that bans governments from holding people in secret detention, but the United States and some of its key European allies were not among them...
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Telegraph
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America is the only country to have voted against a proposed United Nations treaty aimed at controlling international arms sales...
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BBC News
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Irish Justice Minister Dermot Ahern says substantial vote tallies across the country show the European Union Lisbon reform treaty has been rejected.
Tallies are not official, but Mr Ahern says it is clear the No vote is ahead in a vast majority of cons..
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MSNBC
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Anti-EU activists optimistic
And anti-EU activists expressed growing confidence they would triumph when official results are declared Friday afternoon.
"People felt a convincing case for the treaty had not been made, and they felt hectored and bulli..
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BBC News
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EU leaders have signed a treaty in the Portuguese capital, Lisbon, that is expected to greatly alter the way members govern themselves.
The treaty creates an EU president and a vastly more powerful foreign policy chief for the Union's 27 nations.
At..
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BBC News
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European Union leaders have reached a deal on a landmark treaty to reform the 27-member bloc, officials say.
The agreement in Lisbon was sealed shortly after midnight after objections from Italy and Poland were overcome.
The treaty is designed to re..
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CNN
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European leaders were pushing ahead with plans for a new treaty that would reshape the European Union's institutions despite opinion polls showing that a vast majority of people in the main member states believe the treaty should be put to national votes...
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CNN
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Russia on Saturday suspended its participation in a key European arms control treaty that governs deployment of troops on the continent, the Kremlin said, a move that threatened to further aggravate Moscow's already tense relations with the West. Presiden..
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BBC News
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has suspended the application of a key Cold War arms control treaty.
Mr Putin signed a decree citing "exceptional circumstances" affecting security as the reason for the move.
Russia has been angered by US plans to b..
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BBC News
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European Union leaders have reached agreement in Brussels on an outline of new rules to govern the 27-member bloc.
At dawn on Saturday they announced a compromise to delay until 2014 a new voting system that reduces Poland's influence - the main stumbl..
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BBC News
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European Union leaders have begun a second day of tough negotiations in Brussels amid disagreements over new rules to run the 27-member bloc.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said EU leaders were doing their "level best" to reach a compromise.
German..
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BBC News
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EU leaders are preparing to meet in Brussels to discuss a treaty to help the union work more effectively.
A draft tabled by Germany recommends deep reforms, but not a constitution - an idea spurned by French and Dutch voters two years ago.
The paper..
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BBC News
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European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has told EU members not to block progress towards an EU treaty.
Mr Barroso warned against taking a tough line into negotiations, telling member states that opposition to the treaty was not in their inte..
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BBC News
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Poland's President, Lech Kaczynski, is visiting Germany for crucial talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel on the future of a new EU constitutional treaty.
Germany, the current holder of the EU presidency, wants states to agree to a road map on a simplifi..
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BBC News
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said that agreement on a new EU constitutional treaty was "still not in sight" ahead of an important EU summit.
But Mrs Merkel told parliament in Berlin she hoped the summit would take a clear step forward and produc..
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