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...mitigate the impact of its operations on innocent civilians,” Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, landmine campaigner Jody Williams, and Northern Ireland peace activist Betty Williams wrote in an Oct. 22 letter to the Times of London. The laureates added that if PetroChina/CNPC rejects these requests, UBS should withdraw from the stock offering...
...said that while the previous government referred to "them in Brussels," the new government will say "us in the E.U." as the new government will drive a harder bargain with the U.S. over Washington's request to base a missile shield on Polish territory; it is also expected to withdraw troops from Iraq next year...
...traffic, and remains the most vulnerable to continued striking as union members prepared to vote on whether to renew the movement. The union leaders' task now is to find a way to extend the actions long enough to force Sarkozy to do something he's repeatedly vowed not to: withdraw contested reform he and conservative backers call both urgent and overdue. For many observers, the stage is set for a repeat of 1995, when the conservative government shelving proposed pension reform after a month of bitter, economically damaging strikes. The conservatives were voted out of power just 18 months later...
...wreck has its origins in the 1999 United Nations resolution that ended the Kosovo war. Under pressure from U.S. warplanes, Serbia's then President Slobodan Milosevic agreed to withdraw troops from Kosovo and cede control to the U.N., provided the province legally remained part of Serbia. But that condition has proved unacceptable to ethnic Albanians, who make up 90% of Kosovo's population. A subsequent U.N. plan to grant Kosovo full but "supervised" independence foundered on Russian threats of a veto in the U.N. Security Council. So last summer, the U.S., Russia and the European Union decided to give...
Warning against the dangers of an early withdrawal of American troops, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Mahmood Mohammed Zebari last night stressed the importance of America’s friendship in bringing stability to Iraq.In a speech at the Institute of Politics, Zebari, a Kurd, drew attention to the optimism of the Iraqi people and the successes of the Iraqi government, while acknowledging that the country still faces many hurdles.“The U.S. is our ally in our pursuit of freedom and human dignity,” he said. “I salute the soldiers standing side...