European diplomats ask to meet detained activists in Maldives
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European nations have requested the Maldives authorities to give them access to activists detained after last week's pro-democracy demonstrations, diplomatic sources said.
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Nato ministers are set to meet envoys from Israel and six Arab nations for their highest-level talks with the alliance&#39;s southern neighbours.
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The European Union has asked Bangladesh&#39;s military-backed government for information on individual human rights cases, reports said.
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Nato's secretary general will meet top officials in Russia, at a time of strained relations between the two sides.
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European Union foreign ministers agreed on Monday to invite a Cuban delegation to Brussels to explore the scope for a gradual thaw in ties but chose not to end a four-year-old freeze in contacts.
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The European Union calls for free and fair elections in the Maldives with a parliamentary vote due this month.
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Human rights defenders face arrest and torture in China, and the European Union should raise the issue at a summit with Beijing's leaders this week, Amnesty International said in a new report Monday.
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MOSCOW -- Police detained gay rights activists, among them European lawmakers, as they tried to present a letter to Moscow's mayor yesterday in a demonstration that also attracted a hostile crowd of people who punched and threw eggs at the activists.
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The London police are holding discussions about possibly mooring a prison ship on the River Thames in a bid to ease pressure on the spiralling inmate population, a police spokesman said.
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Interior ministers from Italy, France, Germany, Britain and Spain searched for Europe-wide solutions in the fights against terror and illegal immigration during informal talks Sunday at a Florentine villa.
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Six human rights groups urged the U.S. government on Thursday to name and explain the whereabouts of 39 people they said were believed to have been held in U.S. custody and "disappeared."
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FBI Director Robert S. Mueller met with Austrian officials Thursday to discuss last week's arrests in Vienna of two suspected al-Qaida operatives and assess the threat of terrorism during next summer's Euro 2008 soccer tournament.
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A formal request is made to Moscow for the extradition of an ex-KGB agent accused of killing Alexander Litvinenko.
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The government has been in contact with the kidnappers of a European tour group that disappeared in one of Ethiopia's most remote, inhospitable regions, Ethiopia's foreign minister said Saturday.
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The Commonwealth and European Union have asked Mozambique for access to centers where votes from this week's election are being verified, after complaints by monitors raised questions over the credibility of the ballot.
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Â· French, German and Italian leaders meet BrownÂ· Barroso urges 'targeted and proportionate' action
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Interior ministers from Italy, France, Germany, Britain and Spain began informal talks Sunday, searching for ways to improve cooperation across the continent in fighting terror and illegal immigration.