Tigers set September 1 deadline for EU monitors to quit
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Truce monitors in Sri Lanka from European Union member states Denmark, Finland and Sweden must leave the country by September 1, a top Tamil Tiger rebel leader told AFP.
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STRASBOURG  - Incoming European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso urged the EU to &quot;get back to work&quot;, ahead of a vote expected to end an unprecedented limbo and let him take office three weeks late.
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Government sources told The Monitor yesterday the nine-man team from The Hague in the Netherlands asked their presence here to be kept secret.
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The European Commission said on Tuesday it will step up the fight against "blood diamonds", when it takes charge of a diamond certification scheme next month.
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Security forces in Nepal have been placed on high alert as a deadline set by rebels for business shut down ends on Tuesday.
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The European Union's head office on Wednesday proposed redefining how working hours are counted under the bloc's maximum 48-hour workweek law and stopping companies in Britain from abusing an "opt-out" to the law.
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The European Commission was set to confirm that Romania and Bulgaria are on track to join the European Union in 2007, although Croatia will have to wait, according to leaked documents.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium  - The European Union head office on Wednesday proposed redefining how working hours are counted under the bloc's maximum 48-hour workweek law and stopping companies in Britain from abusing an "opt-out" to the law.
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Europeâs political crisis should end tomorrow with a final vote of approval for the new, improved, team of Commissioners in Brussels.
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The European Union is set to yield to U.S. demands to give law enforcement agencies easier access to transatlantic air passenger data to clinch a deal by the end of the week, EU diplomats said on Wednesday.
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A fresh row is threatening to mar the first day in office of the new European Commission on Monday. France&#39;s commissioner Jacques Barrot is under fire for failing to disclose a previous conviction for embezzlement.
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Italy&#39;s Rocco Buttiglione said on Saturday that he was ready to pull out from the European Commission of incoming President Jose Manuel Barroso.
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Afghanistan has ordered a top European Union official and a United Nations staffer to leave the country for threatening national security, government and diplomatic officials said Tuesday.
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Ferenc Gyurcsany will replace Peter Medgyessy, who resigned on Wednesday, and is expected to be approved by parliament in early September.
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President Chavez sets a September deadline for Brazil and Paraguay to back Venezuela's membership of Mercosur.
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The European Union on Thursday set a new deadline of Nov. 9 to conclude its antitrust review of Oracle Corp.'s &#36;7.7 billion takeover bid for rival business software maker PeopleSoft Inc.
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The crisis over the composition of the European Commission that is replacing Romano Prodi's line-up has been put off to another date, probably to November 15 when the European Parliament is next scheduled to be ...