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Belgian premier offers resignation amid deadlock
Jul 14 2008, AP

Prime Minister Yves Leterme offered the resignation of his government Monday after it failed to rally around constitutional reforms designed to grant more self-rule to Belgium’s Dutch- and French-speaking camps.Vice-premier Didier Reynders said he...

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Nato cools relations with Russia
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Nato foreign ministers have said there will be “no business as usual” with Russia, as they urged Moscow to pull its troops out of Georgia immediately. The...
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NATO puts relations with Russia on back burner
AP, Brussels
NATO allies say they cannot have normal relations with Russia as long as Moscow has troops in Georgia.
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OSCE: Russia agrees increase in monitors
AP, Brussels
The chairman of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe says that Russia has agreed to a beefed-up monitoring mission for Georgia’s disputed...
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NATO ministers review ties with Russia
AP, Brussels
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her NATO counterparts reviewed their relations with Moscow Tuesday and were expected to curtail high-level meetings and military...
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NATO ministers to review ties with Russia
AP, Brussels
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is expected to push NATO allies Tuesday to curtail high-level meetings and military cooperation with Russia unless Moscow sticks to...
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made popular Aug 19 2008
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Rice says NATO will defeat Russian aims in Georgia
AP, Brussels
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Monday that Russia is playing a “very dangerous game” with the U.S. and its allies and warned that NATO would not...
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NATO won't let Russia succeed in Georgia: Rice
AP, Brussels
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Monday that Russia is playing a “very dangerous game” with the U.S. and its allies and warned that NATO would not...
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Rice: NATO won't let Russia succeed in Georgia
AP, Brussels
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says NATO will not allow Russia to destabilize Georgia, intimidate other pro-Western governments in the former Soviet bloc or...
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US calls emergency meeting for NATO on Russia
AP, Brussels
The United States has called an emergency meeting of NATO foreign ministers to review the alliance’s worsening relations with Russia following Moscow’s...
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US calls emergency NATO meeting to discuss Russia
AP, Brussels
The United States has called an emergency meeting of NATO foreign ministers to review the alliance’s worsening relations with Russia following Moscow’s...
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made popular Aug 18 2008
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EU: Trade deficit close to balance
AP, Brussels
Euro nations’ trade deficit with the rest of the world came close to balance in June, the EU statistics agency said Monday.
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Truce may give Russia loophole in Georgia conflict
AP, Brussels
The wording in a cease-fire agreement between Russia and Georgia may have given Russians a loophole to send their troops into points into the former Soviet republic and...
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made popular Aug 15 2008
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Petals cover Brussels square in carpet of flowers
AP, Brussels
Some 700,000 begonias will cover Brussels’ main square beginning Friday to form a flower carpet of vibrant colors, a big draw to the Belgium capital that happens...
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Truce between Russia, Georgia flawed, some say
AP, Brussels
A truce between warring Russia and Georgia appeared at first to be a breakthrough, but some fear it may have given the Russians a loophole to continue their action in...
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EU: Euro economy shrinks in second quarter
AP, Brussels
Euro-zone growth braked sharply in the second quarter as major economies Germany, France and Italy shrank, EU statistics showed Thursday, with high fuel and food prices...
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Roof falls in on European Parliament building
AP, Brussels
The European Parliament says that part of the roof of its Strasbourg chamber has collapsed.
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EU tightens sanctions on Iran over nuclear program
AP, Brussels
The European Union tightened trade sanctions against Iran Friday for defying a long-standing international demand to freeze uranium enrichment.
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New EU sanctions against Iran over nuclear program
AP, Brussels
The European Union has imposed new sanctions against Iran in protest of its nuclear program.
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France: Iran reply on nuclear offer insufficient
AP, Brussels
France joined the United States on Wednesday in rejecting Iran’s response to an incentives package aimed at defusing a dispute over its nuclear program as...
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UK agrees to delay preacher's extradition to US
AP, Brussels
Britain agreed Tuesday to delay the extradition of a radical Muslim preacher to face charges that he helped set up an al-Qaida terrorist training camp in Oregon.
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