Talks among key WTO players collapse: Brazil
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Crunch talks between four key players in the World Trade Organization -- the United States, the European Union, Brazil and India -- on a global trade deal broke down Thursday, Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim said.
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Talks between US Airways (UAIR.O) and its pilots union over a new round of concessions collapsed on Monday, the union said.
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Italian President Giorgio Napolitano went into crisis talks with political leaders Thursday after the shock resignation of Prime Minister Romano Prodi because of a foreign policy defeat in the Senate.
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Brazil's President Luiz Inacio da Silva is weakened as two parties withdraw from his governing coalition.
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The European Union and the four-nation  South American Mercosur customs bloc failed to reach a deal to  create the world's biggest free-trade area, negotiators said  late on Wednesday.
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US President George W. Bush risks losing his special trade negotiating powers after talks between four key players in the World Trade Organization collapsed this week, analysts said.
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Reuters Rio de Janeiro Nov 18: World champions Brazil crashed to a shock 1-0 defeat in Ecuador yesterday while home wins for Peru, Colombia and Uruguay kept the South American World Cup qualifying group wide open.
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Talks in Germany to secure a new global trade deal have collapsed, says a European Union official.
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The collapse of global trade talks  was bad news for Africa, condemning the world's poorest  continent to an uncertain future of high tariffs and lagging  competitiveness, officials and experts said on Monday.
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WTO chief Pascal Lamy warned on Tuesday that failure to renew the White House's trade negotiating authority would signal the United States has lost faith in world trade talks.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 2 (IPS) - No one is admitting it publicly, but there is now  little doubt that nine years of negotiations to reach a free  trade agreement between South America's Mercosur trade bloc  and the European Union have failed, without even leaving any real  hope for the coming year.
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Leaders of 21 Asia-Pacific states in the Apec grouping have ended a summit in Chile with a call for action to lower global trade barriers.
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Minute-by-minute report: How big a nail will Brazil ram in Steve McClaren's coffin? Find out now.
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Diplomats in charge of world trade talks challenged countries on Tuesday to abandon long-held positions and make "very painful" compromises on farm and industrial goods to salvage a deal.
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India, Brazil and other large  developing countries &quot;need to step up&quot; in world trade talks and  make the market-opening concessions needed to reach a deal, a  top U.S. official said on Wednesday.
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WTO chief Pascal Lamy warned on  Tuesday that failure to renew the White House&#39;s trade  negotiating authority would signal the United States has lost  faith in world trade talks.
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Talks to end Kenya's political crisis collapse, sources say, but the opposing sides agree to further discussion.