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A powerful earthquake has struck off the northern Japanese coast, injuring at least 91 people, triggering landslides and cutting power to thousands of people.
24/07/2008
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The European Union has suspended hundreds of millions of euros in subsidies to Bulgaria, saying the government's fight against high-level corruption and organised crime was not producing results.
24/07/2008
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The European Union's top trade negotiator has sought to spur progress at deadlocked World Trade Organisation (WTO) talks in Geneva but found his initiative branded "propaganda".
22/07/2008
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The European Commission has backed a plan to give €1bn ($1.59bn) to farmers in Africa next year to help tackle high food prices and boost output.
19/07/2008
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The European Commission could freeze hundreds of millions of euros in assistance for Bulgaria next week after a leaked report highlighted spending irregularities, corruption and organised crime.
19/07/2008
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The European Union has proposed setting up a $1.6 billion two-year emergency fund to help poor countries cope with the global food crisis.
19/07/2008
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Rafael Correa, the Ecuadorian president, and Hugo Chavez, his Venezuelan counterpart, have entered into an agreement to build the biggest oil refinery on South America's Pacific coast.
17/07/2008
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The European Union has welcomed sweeping new French-drafted guidelines for controlling immigration.
08/07/2008
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Russian peacekeepers say four explosions have gone off in the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia.
06/07/2008
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Peter Mandelson, the European Union trade chief, has urged member states of the bloc to unite behind his push for a world trade deal, saying he is being undermined by repeated criticism from Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president.
03/07/2008
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European union citizens would be able to seek medical care anywhere in the continent without prior authorisation and get reimbursed for the treatment by their insurer.
02/07/2008
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Peru's former senior intelligence chief has testified that Alberto Fujimori, the former president, is innocent of the human rights abuse charges for which he is on trial.
01/07/2008
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A French court has ordered eBay, an online auctioneer, to pay nearly $63m in damages to Louis Vuitton and five other luxury goods brands for selling fake goods.
01/07/2008
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The former foreign minister of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime has appeared at a United Nations-backed tribunal to appeal for release from his pre-trial detention.
30/06/2008
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Pakistani police are investigating two large explosions heard in the garrision city of Rawalpindi.
30/06/2008
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