Angry Egypt cancels talks with EU officials
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Egypt has cancelled talks with senior  European Union officials after the bloc criticized the Arab  country's human rights record, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry  said on Saturday.
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The EU suspends a diplomatic freeze imposed on Cuba in response to human rights violations.
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CAIRO -- Egypt's best-known democracy movement has switched causes and is now focused on demanding an end to the country's peace treaty with Israel.
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Iran announced on Sunday crunch talks with the European Union to break the deadlock over its controversial nuclear programme have been postponed, amid growing calls for fresh UN action against Tehran.
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The EU says it could suspend accession talks with Turkey and other countries if they backtrack on reforms.
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The first visit by Arab League envoys to Israel has been postponed for two weeks, Egyptian and Israeli officials said Tuesday.
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The Egyptian government has banned the Muslim Brotherhood's largest annual social gathering for the first time in 20 years, part of a concerted crackdown against the country's opposition, the group's leadership said Sunday.
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Iranian hard-liners are angered over a deal Tehran has agreed with the European Union to suspend all activities related to its enrichment program in a bid to end an international standoff over its nuclear program.
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British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has put off a planned visit to Egypt this week because it would have coincided with the anniversary of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, officials said here.
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BRUSSELS, Sep 1 (IPS) - Trade between the European Union and Israel should  be halted in protest at human rights violations in the  Palestinian territories, a United Nations conference has heard.
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The EU is scaling back its monitoring mission at the Gaza-Egypt border, a spokeswoman said Saturday, suggesting that Gaza's only gateway to the world will not reopen anytime soon.
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Iranian and U.S. officials will not hold bilateral talks when they are together in Egypt next week, Iran's president said Wednesday, echoing comments made earlier by Secretary of State Colin Powell.
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The Egyptian foreign ministry on Thursday summoned the ambassadors of European Union countries in Cairo to express its "complete rejection" of a European Parliament draft resolution critical of human rights.
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Egypt's government has invited leaders of Gaza's main political groups to hold talks Friday, after a day when Egyptian forces clashed with Palestinians moving through a breached border wall between Gaza and Egypt.
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Iran's chief nuclear negotiator canceled  on Friday a trip to a conference in Germany where U.N.  officials had hoped talks with European policy makers would  secure a "time out" in a row over Tehran's nuclear ambitions.
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The Indo-European Union summit to be held on October 13-14 in The Hague has been cancelled.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell abruptly  canceled plans to attend the Olympics closing ceremony in  Athens on Sunday, a visit that had triggered angry protests  from anti-war groups.