Environment activists block EU building
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Environmental activists blocked the entrance to the main European Union building Monday with a 10-foot-high wall to protest the bloc's refusal to protect threatened stocks.
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KYIV, Ukraine  - Noisy, orange-clad opposition protesters on Wednesday blockaded Ukraine's government headquarters and prevented Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych from convening a cabinet session.
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Russian regulators want to block a $20bn oil and gas project led by Shell because of environmental concerns.
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EU leaders clashed today over a plan to set up camps in North Africa to process immigrants and asylum seekers to help stop the flow of illegal migrants crossing the Mediterranean to Europe.
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BRUSSELS, May 17 (IPS) - Corporate lobbyists in Brussels are resisting calls  by European Union legislators to disclose  how much they receive  from firms determined to water down EU rules on the environment   and public health.
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They are asking the European Union Council to reject this proposal. They claim that software patent directive would be harmful to the European economy.
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Opposition supporters in Ukraine continue to block key government buildings, after the first meeting between two presidential rivals ended without agreement and amid opposition threats of "action" if the election dispute is not resolved within days.
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BANGKOK, Thailand (DPA): Activists from the Greenpeace environmentalist group on Wednesday handcuffed themselves to the gates of the Malaysian embassy in Bangkok to protest Malaysia&#39;s &quot;laundering&quot; of ramin, a protected hardwood found primarily in
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Campaigners against plans to built a gas terminal at Milford Haven plan protest over safety fears.
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Hundreds of cities and towns in Europe restricted cars Wednesday as officials urged commuters to take public transportation, bicycles or walk instead.
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NUSA DUA, Indonesia, Dec. 14 -- European leaders, angered by the growing impasse here over the U.S. refusal to accept any specific targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, threatened Thursday to boycott the parallel climate negotiations that President Bush launched with great fanfare in...
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NUSA DUA, Indonesia  - The European Union and the United States accused each other on Thursday of blocking a deal to launch negotiations on a new global warming treaty as the clock ran down on U.N. climate talks in Bali.
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NAIROBI, Nov 3 (IPS) - An unexpected challenge has been directed at the  economic partnership agreement (EPA) being negotiated between the  European Union and the east and southern African group. Two lobby  groups have filed a law suit in Kenya to halt the signing of the  EPA.
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Environmental protesters are arrested after storming the International Petroleum Exchange in an attempt to stop trading.
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An EU official called on Germany to give up the famous freedom of its highways and impose speed limits on the autobahn to fight global warming &#151; a demand that drew angry responses on Sunday in a country that cherishes what it calls "free driving for free citizens."
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Eurosceptics in the European Parliament stage a noisy protest at the signing of the new EU charter of rights.
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EU members are divided over a European Commission plan to crack down on the lucrative illegal timber trade by making exporters prove their wood is not from endangered rainforests, officials said on Tuesday.