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...abroad. German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited Washington this month to push a plan that would harmonize investment and trade rules across the Atlantic. And the European Union and the U.S. recently got back together in a new and perhaps final attempt to salvage the World Trade Organization's Doha Round of negotiations. "We are in the endgame," says Peter Mandelson, the E.U.'s Trade Commissioner...
Amid concerns about a worldwide resurgence of trade protectionism, negotiators from the European Union and the U.S. met in Washington earlier this month to give new impetus to a stalled global trade accord. The World Trade Organization (WTO) suspended its so-called Doha Round last July because of disagreements between the U.S. and the E.U. over subsidies to their farmers, while countries from Australia to India complain that the ways both giants use such supports are a major trade distortion. There's not much time left for a new deal, since the special "fast-track" authority to negotiate trade agreements...
...There have been many attempts to breathe life into the Doha Round - why should this initiative be any different? There is a wide appreciation among all the players that we are in the endgame. I think everyone realizes what a serious situation we are in. There is a shared sense of urgency about this, although it is partly for reasons to do with the electoral calendar in both the U.S. and Europe...
...incomprehensible, in fact, that some suspect it won't be that simple. In light of Algeria's traditionally ruthless treatment of Islamist militants, Amnesty International warns that Britain may be sending him home to face abuses. "If Abu Doha is deported as planned, he faces grave danger of detention and torture in Algeria," says an Amnesty spokesman in London, who says at least 12 specific cases of alleged secret detention and torture in Algeria have been reported to his group since 2002. In August, a British court ruling struck down challenges to such deportations on human rights grounds, citing Algeria...
...Doha's attorneys are fighting his deportation, but did not respond to multiple requests to comment on the allegations made against their client by counter-terror officials. British Home Office officials would not comment beyond confirming that Doha's deportation case is based on an "immigration violation." Amnesty International fears a darker agenda. "The government claims Abu Doha is a security threat, yet can't convict him of anything here - so they send this dangerous man to what one might presume would be freedom in Algeria," the Amnesty spokesman says. "It's very difficult not to wonder if this...