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/ 26 September 2003
Europe’s trading relationship with the United States deteriorated further this week when the European Commission said it had no option but to impose tit-for-tat sanctions in a rumbling row over an illegal US trade law.
He may be regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, but Ingmar Bergman had a pretty dim view of his own talents as a young man. He was, he says, a ”useless” actor. His writing was simply ”too flowery”.
Their pay and perks may be the stuff of popular legend, but thousands of angry European Union officials went on strike this week to protest ”a provocative attack” on their fringe benefits.
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/ 26 October 2002
African leaders at a summit on Wednesday chose Togolese President Gnassingbe Eyadema to coordinate talks between the government and rebels in Côte d’Ivoire, which has been split in two by a month-long uprising.
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/ 25 October 2002
African leaders at a summit on Wednesday chose Togolese President Gnassingbe Eyadema to coordinate talks between the government and rebels in Cote d’Ivoire, which has been split in two by a month-long uprising.
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/ 11 October 2002
Nearly 13 years after the Berlin wall came down, the former communist countries of Eastern Europe, plus Cyprus and Malta, were told this week that they were sufficiently democratic and free-market orientated to join the European Union. Their date with destiny is 2004.
The raging river Vltava came close to submerging Prague’s historic city centre and two of the city’s districts as the rising torrent put hours of work and thousands of sandbags to the test. To the horror of art lovers, the art nouveau national theatre began to fill with water.
More than a century after King Leopold II of Belgium claimed Congo as his personal colony, an investigation into his country’s murky colonial past and long-ignored allegations of genocide is to be carried out. Some of the country’s most eminent historians have been commissioned.