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WORLD / NEWS Mon May 12, 2008 @ 8:16am neoform

BBC News -- Results from Serbia's elections point to a triumph for President Boris Tadic's pro-European Union bloc. Mr Tadic claimed victory, with his bloc set to win nearly 40% of the vote, but he may need the support of at least one nationalist party for a major.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Oct 4, 2007 @ 9:31am neoform

africa.reuters.com -- Some 3,200 miners were trapped deep underground in a South African gold mine on Wednesday and a union spokesman said they could be suffocating. The miners at the Elandsrand mine were caught about 2.2 km down after a power cable to a lift broke at aroun.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Aug 23, 2007 @ 9:50am neoform

CBC -- Organizers of the protests at the North American leaders' summit in Montebello, Que., say they have video that shows police disguised as masked demonstrators tried to incite violence on Monday. About 1,200 protesters were in the small resort town near.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Mar 21, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform

BBC News -- Israel's main trade union has launched an open-ended general strike which threatens to bring transport and public services across the country to a halt. Flights at Israel's only international airport, Tel Aviv, were cancelled as the strike came into fo.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Mar 28, 2008 @ 8:03am neoform

CNN -- The European Union on Friday condemned a new film by a Dutch lawmaker which is critical of Islam and features controversial images of the Prophet Mohammed. The 15-minute film, titled "Fitna," was posted on a London-based Web site Thursday. It immediately.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Feb 4, 2008 @ 8:20am neoform

BBC News -- The European Union has said it wants to accelerate Serbia's progress towards membership following the re-election of pro-Western President Boris Tadic. Mr Tadic claimed victory after taking slightly more than half the votes cast in a tight run-off cont.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Jan 18, 2008 @ 8:33am neoform

MSNBC -- Bobby Fischer, the reclusive American chess master who became a Cold War icon when he dethroned the Soviet Union’s Boris Spassky as world champion in 1972, has died. He was 64. Fischer died Thursday in a Reykjavik hospital, his spokesman, Gardar Sver.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Dec 12, 2007 @ 8:13am neoform

SF Gate -- As a U.N. conference on global warming entered its final stretch, the United States and the European Union remained deadlocked Tuesday on whether countries should commit now to including specific cuts in climate-warming emissions in a new climate pact tha.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Dec 5, 2007 @ 9:44am neoform

CNN -- More African countries should send peacekeepers to Somalia, where an Islamic insurgency has killed thousands of civilians this year, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday. Rice was in the Ethiopian capital, where the African Union is headquar.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Nov 30, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

BBC News -- Rebels in Chad have said they are at war with the French-led European Union peacekeeping force which is due to be deployed in the coming weeks. The rebels accused French military planes of flying over their positions and passing intelligence to the gov.. Read More

WORLD / OPINION Tue Sep 11, 2007 @ 11:09am neoform

Guardian Unlimited -- Last week, a trade union badly damaged the legitimacy of collective action - and achieved nothing. By going on strike after having won almost all its demands, the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers closed down the London Underground fo.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Aug 21, 2007 @ 8:20am neoform

BBC News -- The future of Poland's iconic Gdansk shipyard remains in doubt as a key European Union (EU) deadline approaches for the site to reduce its capacity. Brussels has given Poland until the end of Tuesday to either close two of Gdansk's three slipways or el.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Jul 27, 2007 @ 10:39am neoform

Washington Post -- The United States and the European Union have agreed to expand a security program that shares personal data about millions of U.S.-bound airline passengers a year, potentially including information about a person's race, ethnicity, religion and health... Read More

WORLD / OPINION Mon Jul 9, 2007 @ 12:48pm neoform

Alter Net -- The proposed oil law facing the Iraqi cabinet would allow Western oil companies to take about 50% of all production as their share, an "obvious robbery of the Iraqi oil," says oil workers union heavy. As the Iraqi cabinet approves part of a controversi.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Jul 2, 2007 @ 2:13am neoform

USA Today -- Though Sudan has accepted the notion of a joint U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur, the operation could still be derailed by a lack of funding and political will, African Union chairman Alpha Oumar Konare said Sunday. "What is lacking toda.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sun Jul 1, 2007 @ 11:21am neoform

BBC News -- The African Union summit has opened in Accra, Ghana, focusing this year on the idea of a pan-African government. Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is championing the idea, but correspondents say many African leaders do not support his initiative. Ther.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sun May 20, 2007 @ 9:56pm neoform

yahoo.reuters.com -- Kuwait unshackled its dinar from the tumbling U.S. dollar on Sunday and switched the exchange rate mechanism to a basket of currencies, throwing plans for currency union with other Gulf Arab oil producers into disarray. Kuwait's central bank, which bat.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed May 16, 2007 @ 5:00pm neoform

BBC News -- Nicolas Sarkozy has called for urgent action to get the European Union out of its constitutional "paralysis". He made the call as he met German Chancellor Angela Merkel for talks in Berlin, capping a whirlwind first day as the new president of France... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sat Mar 31, 2007 @ 8:57pm neoform

BBC News -- Palestinian journalists are being urged to stop covering government activities following the apparent abduction of the BBC's Gaza reporter Alan Johnston. A three-day boycott from Monday, called by the journalists' union, aims to press Palestinian autho.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Mar 19, 2007 @ 11:41am neoform

News.com.au -- THE proposed Qantas takeover is facing another challenge - a push by the union covering a third of the airline's staff for a six per cent pay rise under a new enterprise bargaining agreement. The Australian Services Union (ASU) is seeking to buck a tre.. Read More