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POLITICS-FRANCE: Resignations Highlight Crisis in Judicial System
The resignation of three key prosecutors highlights the crisis in the French judiciary's battle against corruption.TRADE-RUSSIA: Russia Ambiguous Over Oil Output Cut
The Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, is pressing Moscow to extend a current oil export cut through to June, however Russia is refraining from making any promises.ENVIRONMENT-EU: Activists Cheer Kyoto Ratification
Environmentalists have greeted the European Union' s decision to ratify the Kyoto Protocol on climate change with relief and applause.SPAIN: Muslims Demand Religious Instruction in Public Schools
Spain's Muslim community, bolstered by the rising inflow of Muslim immigrants, is demanding enforcement of an agreement with the government that would allow their children to receive Islamic religious instruction in public schools.RIGHTS-SERBIA: Family Violence Finally Punishable By Law
Changes in the Serbian penal code, adopted by the parliament last week, have finally made violence in the family punishable by law.CORRECTED/POLITICS-EUROPE: A New Fight Over An Old War
A row over policies on ethnic Germans going back to the Second World War is blocking joint efforts by four Central European nations to gain membership of the European Union.POLITICS-EUROPE: A New Fight Over An Old War
A row over policies on ethnic Germans going back to the Second World War is blocking joint efforts by four Central European nations to gain membership of the European Union.POLITICS-FRANCE: Crime and Corruption Top Presidential Poll Campaign
The two main French political parties contending in the presidential elections scheduled for next April have made the fight against criminality and corruption the rallying themes of their respective campaigns.FINANCE-BRITAIN: Storm over Blair backing for Indian industrialist
A company registered in the Dutch Antilles owned by an Indian national buys a steel plant in Romania with support from British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Scandal or just international business?POLITICS-EU: Activists Criticise Euro-Mediterranean Bank Proposal
As the European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union, adopted a proposal to create a Euro-Mediterranean Bank as a subsidiary of the European Investment Bank, EIB, environmentalists reacted with dismay.DEVELOPMENT: EU Donors Vow to Work Closely with Local Institutions
Developing countries must be put back into the drivers' seat of development policy, say European Union (EU) decision makers and parliamentarians.POPULATION-RUSSIA: Kremlin Revamps its Immigration System
The Kremlin has pledged to create a system of transparent migration institutions designed to protect rights of legal immigrants, while cracking down on illegal migrants.POLITICS-CYPRUS: The Worst Of Friends Or The Best Of Enemies?
Characterised as the worst of friends or the best of enemies, two aging political leaders entrenched at opposite sides meet regularly in a display of joviality that raises hope for a do-or-die solution to a nagging international impasse known as "The Cyprus Problem."/ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/THEATRE-BRITAIN: Turkish Director Takes London’s Theatrical Community By Storm
Only a visionary could turn a disused clothing factory into one of England's most exciting theatrical venues.POLITICS-YUGOSLAVIA: Milosevic’s Trial Glues Serbs To Television Screens
As the International Criminal Tribunal For Former Yugoslavia, ICTY, trial against former leader Slobodan Milosevic enters its third week many Serbs remain glued to television channels that provide live coverage of the proceedings .POLITICS-GERMANY: Easterners Flee West in Post-Wall Exodus
Thousands of Germans are fleeing from the depressed former eastern parts of the country to the west, in an exodus that highlights the failure of policies to bring the east up to the standards of the west over a decade after reunification.POLITICS-CZECH REPUBLIC: Premier Asked to Step Down Over ‘Arafat- Hitler’ Comparison
Czech opposition leaders have called on Prime Minister Milos Zeman to resign.POLITICS-RUSSIA: Moldova Political Upheaval May Spark Ethnic Divide
As Moldova's nationalist opposition organises unauthorised rallies against government plans to bring the country closer to Russia, Moscow has warned that protests could create a conflict situation in South-East Europe.HEALTH-FRANCE: Team of Multinational Scientists Develop Effective Anti- Malaria Treatment
A group of scientists have developed a new drug which, they say, will provide effective treatment against the killer disease malaria.DEVELOPMENT: NGOs Criticise EU Ahead Of U.N. Conference in Mexico
The 15-nation European Union's preparations for the U.N. conference on financing for development next month in Monterrey are "too little, too late", according to European activists.RIGHTS-SPAIN: Muslim Girl Becomes Symbol of Religious Tolerance
Fátima Elidrisi, a 13-year-old Moroccan girl, became a symbol of the fight against discrimination on religious grounds in Spain Monday, when she began to attend a public school wearing a traditional Muslim head scarf amidst a raging controversy in the educational system.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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