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Aircraft emissions are changing the pdevilaRIGHTS-YUGOSLAVIA: Time for Political Process to Resume
The NATO bombing of Yugoslavia has not only mashed the country's infrastructure and economy. It has also damaged the democratic process which, opposition leaders say, must be resumed as soon as Serbia is allowed to live in peace.RIGHTS-EDUCATION: Learning and Teaching Solidarity
Values and policies of solidarity are to benefit not only developing nations of the South but also Europe, where dangerous tendencies to "close doors and turn inwards" are unfolding, a Council-of-Europe seminar held in Budapest concluded this weekend./CORRECTED REPEAT//POLITICS-EUROPE: A Step Towards Political and Military Autonomy
"What is Europe's phone number?" former U.S. secretary of state Henry Kissinger is reported to have once asked, underlining the European Union's lack of cohesion and inability to act in crisis situations./CORRECTED REPEAT//POLITICS-EUROPE: A Step Towards Political and Military Autonomy
"What is Europe's phone number?" former U.S. secretary of state Henry Kissinger is reported to have once asked, underlining the European Union's lack of cohesion and inability to act in crisis situations.CONFLICT-YUGOSLAVIA: EU Reinforces Political, Military Identity
Germany and Finland have become promoters of peace and stability in the Balkans, having helped achieve a peace accord in Yugoslavia, presented as a product of the European Union's (EU) political will./REPEAT//POLITICS-EUROPE: A Step Towards Political and Military Autonomy
"What is Europe's phone number?," former U.S. secretary of state, Henry Kissinger, is reported to have once asked, to underline the European Union's lack of cohesion and inability to act in crisis situations.POLITICS-EUROPE: A Step Towards Political and Military Autonomy
"What is Europe's phone number?," former U.S. secretary of state, Henry Kissinger, is reported to have once asked, to underline the European Union's lack of cohesion and inability to act in crisis situations.CONFLICT-YUGOSLAVIA: With Peace On Sight, Political War Resumes
Immediately after the Serbian parliament accepted the peace plan presented by Finnish president Maarti Ahtissari and Russian envoy Victor Chernomyrdin Thursday, Yugoslavia seems to be readying itself for renewed political battles.CONFLICT-BALKANS: The Post-Modern War
The difference between the wars in the Balkans this past decade compared to previous European conflicts has not been the massive use of new technology, but rather the victims. Civilians are now on the front line of combat.RIGHTS-GERMANY: Deportee Death Raises Questions But Not Debate
It was supposed to be one of Germany's "routine" deportations of asylum seekers. A motorcycle helmet was clamped onto Sudanese Aaamir Ageeb head in the flight from Frankfurt to Khartum"for his own protection" and to "stop him biting."RIGHTS-TURKEY: Italy’s Greens Urge Political Asylum for Ocalan
The Green party in Italy urged the government - of which it is a member - Tuesday to extend political asylum to the leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), Abdullah Ocalan, currently on trial in Turkey, in an attempt to save his life.RIGHTS-YUGOSLAVIA: UN Accuses Milosevic Regime of Gross Abuses
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson pinned the blame Monday for the "grave humanitarian tragedy taking place" in Yugoslavia on the regime of President Slobodan Milosevic.RIGHTS-TURKEY: Enigmatic Ocalan Declares Loyalty to the Turkish
By declaring Monday his readiness to "serve the Turkish republic," Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan immediately unleashed wild speculations in the first day of what has been announced as Turkey's trial of the century.RIGHTS-YUGOSLAVIA: UN Accuses Milosevic Regime of Gross Abuses
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson blamed the regime of President Slobodan Milosevic Monday for the "grave humanitarian tragedy taking place" in Yugoslavia.CONFLICT-YUGOSLAVIA: Opposition Backs Milosevic’s Overture
While more than 20 civilians have reportedly been killed by NATO attacks on a bridge and a sanatorium over the weekend, opposition parties have backed Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic's acceptance of the peace principles set by the G-8.CONFLICT-YUGOSLAVIA: Germans Nervous About Escalation of the War
Loud calls by British Prime Minister Tony Blair for NATO ground troops to go into Kosovo has triggered off frantic diplomatic activity by Germany, Italy, and Greece the NATO allies most vigorously opposed to an invasion of Yugoslavia.EUROPEAN UNION: Support for Development Aid Waning
A majority of Europeans believe that helping developing countries is still important for the European Union (EU) and the nations it comprises, due to various reasons involving the common as well as the particular interests of the population of the Old Continent.CONFLICT-EUROPE: War Likely to Prompt Borders’ Revision
By launching a war on Yugoslavia on behalf of an ethnic minority, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) may be triggering a revision of borders and further instability in central and eastern Europe, Hungarian analysts warn.CONFLICT-YUGOSLAVIA: Indictment of Milosevic Opens Legal Pandora Box
Along with President Slobodan Milosevic and four other high-ranking Yugoslav officials, also NATO leaders and officers may be accountable for war crimes before the United Nations Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, legal experts noted.TRADE-CONFLICT: Corruption Hampers Russian Weapons Business
Allegations of obscure arms deals around the globe by small trading companies in Russia and Belarus, complete with stories of top-level cover-up, are marring one of the country's few remaining world-class industries and damaging its finances.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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