U.S. pushes Russia in WTO talks to close mp3 Web site
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Russia should shut down a pirate  music Web site that is robbing U.S. recording companies of  sales if it wants to become a member of the World Trade  Organization, the top U.S. trade official said on Wednesday.
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The United States and Russia have been granted a five-year extension to the 2007 deadline for destroying their chemical weapon stockpiles, the international organization overseeing the process said Monday.
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Global trade talks are on the cusp   of collapse and leaders of the world's most powerful   industrialized and developing countries must break the impasse   at a summit in Russia next week, World Bank President Paul   Wolfowitz wrote in a letter to each leader.
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U.S. officials on Monday passed on a European plan to inject new life into stalled world trade talks, saying they would stick to informal discussions they've been holding since the Doha Round collapsed in July.
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Music site is due to make comeback and that may doom Russia's hopes of entering WTO this year.
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The United States and Russia made  progress last week in talks on Moscow's long-time bid to join  the World Trade Organization, but not enough to wrap up a deal,  U.S and Russian officials said on Monday.
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Russia's plan to quit an arms control treaty tightens already tense ties with the U.S. and adds new friction to the dispute over the Bush administration's intentions for a missile defense system in Eastern Europe.
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BRUSSELS: The European Union sought talks with Washington yesterday over US export tax subsidies that will survive last month&#39;s repeal of a system the World Trade Organisation (WTO) had declared illegal.
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The European Union and Russia moved closer on thorny issues of trade and political relations at a summit here on Friday that steered clear of confrontation on major policy disputes.
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The European Union and seven other countries&#39; sanctions request on exports of the United States was postponed to be considered by the World Trade Organization (WTO) at a meeting on Wednesday.
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AllofMP3.com will likely be shut down by Russian authorities as part of its entrance into the World Trade Organization (WTO). But the site is fighting back, providing a legal argument for its continued operation.
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Russia said on Saturday that Washington should freeze its missile defence talks with the Czech Republic and Poland pending examination of an alternative Russian proposal on using an Azerbaijani radar site.
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Russia and the United States on Tuesday clashed over efforts to win influence in Ukraine and other former Soviet republics, with Moscow warning the West against interference and Washington rejecting the charge.
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Russia called on Wednesday for an easing of pressure on the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority but the United States said an aid embargo must remain in place until the Palestinians meet conditions set out by western powers.
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The United States has asked the  World Trade Organization to decide whether several Chinese  subsidy programs violate global trade rules after direct talks  with Beijing failed, the U.S. Trade Representative&#39;s office  said on Thursday.
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Law reform to help Russia's WTO bid The US and Russia will set up a copyright hotline so that information about copyright infringement can be swapped between the two nations. The US says that it will train Russia in how to battle copyright theft.â¦
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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.