Italy: Syria to allow EU border presence
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Syria has agreed "in principle" to let the European Union put troops on its border to help stem the flow of weapons into Lebanon, Italy's prime minister said Saturday.
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A top official in Italy has called on the European Union to help Libya stem the flow of illegal migrants moving northwards across the Mediterranean.
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European Union leaders agreed on Thursday to offer Turkey a date of Oct. 3, 2005 to begin negotiations on its membership of the bloc, said Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
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Syria has agreed to tighten security along its borders with Iraq to block rebels from crossing into its neighbor country, a US Embassy official said Thursday.
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The leaders of Italy, France and Spain sent a letter to the European Union on Monday, urging the bloc to approve measures to help them cope with the flood of illegal migrants from Africa.
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The State Department's No. 2 official said Sunday that Syria had improved security along its border with Iraq but needed to do more to keep armed supporters of ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein from sneaking across.
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BRUSSELS The European Commission will not set special conditions for Turkey when it decides on Wednesday whether to recommend opening membership talks with Ankara, the commission president, Romano Prodi, said on Tuesday.
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Syria's president said in remarks released Sunday that he has increased the number of troops on the border with Lebanon, a move apparently aimed to appease international demands to bolster security following the Israel-Hezbollah war.
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In a historic move that could extend Europe's borders to the edge of the volatile Middle East, the European Union recommended Wednesday setting mostly Muslim Turkey on a course for full membership in the ...
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Italy promised on Saturday that a group of Kurdish stowaways would get a chance to apply for asylum after reportedly being denied that right two weeks ago, the U.N. refugee agency said.
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Syria will allow Iraqis living in the country to cast ballots for the election in Iraq on 30 January.
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The US says Syria has agreed to tighten its border with Iraq to stop militants crossing the border.
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Syria said on Saturday it did not accept   the deployment of European guards on the Lebanese side of the   two countries' border to help prevent alleged arms shipments to   Hizbollah.
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1540CET-- The European Union ambassadors have agreed to recommend lifting the EU bloc&#39;s arms embargo on Libya following pressure from Italy and
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The European Union wants to sign a trade and aid pact to ease Syria&#39;s diplomatic isolation, but only on condition it agrees to renounce weapons of mass destruction, German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer said yesterday.
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Lebanon is becoming a shelter for al-Qaida-linked militants fleeing across the Syrian border after a crackdown by authorities there, Syrian President Bashar Assad said in an interview published Monday.
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Syria has indicated it is  willing to allow the United Nations to take custody of the  disputed Shebaa Farms area claimed by Lebanon but which is  under Israeli occupation, a Spanish diplomat said on Wednesday.