Show us missing rights lawyer, EU's Ashton urges China
Brussels - The European Union's foreign-policy director on Tuesday urged the Chinese government to say what it knows about the whereabouts of missing human-rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, over a year after his disappearance. The EU notes with concern th...
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Hungarian doubts remain over Slovak language law
Budapest - The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe assured Hungary on Tuesday that it was closely monitoring a controversial law on minority languages in neighbouring Slovakia. The assurance was given by the OSCE's High Commissioner o...
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European Parliament approves new EU commission - Summary
Strasbourg, France - The European Parliament approved Tuesday the new European Commission led by former Portuguese prime minister Jose Manuel Barroso, clearing the way for it to take office for the next five years. The commission is the European Unio...
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Polish Senate speaker praises relations with Russia
Warsaw - Polish Senate speaker Bogdan Borusewicz, on a visit to Moscow, said Warsaw's relations with Russia have much improved and are now in a different place than they were until recently, reported the Polish Press Agency PAP on Tuesday. Borusewi...
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EXTRA: French soldier killed in Afghanistan
Paris - A French soldier was killed Tuesday in Afghanistan, the Defence Ministry said on its web site. The soldier, who was not identified, died in an attack by suspected Taliban rebels on the Afghan Army convoy he was guarding as it passed through t...
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