Countries deadlock over ivory trade ban
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Bickering African countries remained deadlocked Tuesday on whether to ease an 18-year international ban on ivory sales, with opponents warning it will increase the poaching threat in places where elephants have almost disappeared.
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Unrest in Ivory Coast, the world's biggest cocoa producer, stops shipments from the country's two ports despite a lull in fighting.
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THE HAGUE The European Union said Wednesday that it was not yet ready to lift its 15-year arms embargo on China amid concerns about human rights, but held out the prospect that the ban could be eased early next year.
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Not enough countries have  contributed to the peacekeeping force in Darfur and the African  Union is blocking some of those who have, diplomats said on the  eve of a high-level meeting on Sudan on Friday.
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United Nations: France on Monday pressed the UN Security Council to slap an arms embargo on Ivory Coast amid an upsurge of violence in the west African nation but ran into reluctance from China, diplomats said.
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Major powers at a G8  summit were deadlocked on Friday over the breakaway Serbian  province of Kosovo, with Russia resisting the terms of a French  plan to delay a U.N. vote on its independence.
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African Union-sponsored talks on the conflict in Sudan&#39;s western Darfur region have stalled over the crucial issue of disarmament.
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - The G8 summit reached deadlock on Friday over independence for the breakaway Serbian province of Kosovo, with Russia rebuffing France's bid to avert Moscow's threatened veto by delaying a U.N. vote.
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GABORONE, Botswana  - When Uttum Corea arrived in  Africa from Sri Lanka he was puzzled by the widely held notion  that African elephants could not be tamed.
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Ivory Coast's political leaders fail to agree on how to end the country's political deadlock.
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The United Nations on Thursday urged  Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo and his opponents to use  talks set for next week to untangle the political deadlock  which is obstructing elections in the war-divided country.
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VIENNA, March 10 -- A year of contentious talks on the future status of Kosovo ended Saturday in a bitter deadlock over a U.N. plan that would set the disputed Serbian province on the road to independence.
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VIENNA -- A year of contentious talks on the future status of Kosovo ended yesterday in a bitter deadlock over a United Nations plan that would set the disputed Serbian province on the road to independence.
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A UN forum on Thursday approved a landmark nine-year ban on international ivory trade to stem a surge in poaching that has killed up to 20,000 elephants per year.
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A U.N. environmental agency on Thursday postponed a plan to allow three southern African states to make a one-off sale of 60 tonnes of elephant ivory.
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The rules controlling the trade in many animal and plant species may change as delegates from around the world meet in Thailand.
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A ZIMBABWEAN delegation led by Environment and Tourism minister Francis Nhema is in Thailand to back a bid at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) conference by southern African countries to resume trade in ivory.