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/ 12 January 2009
The SCA has upheld an appeal by the National Director of Public Prosecutions against a high court ruling that halted the prosecution of Jacob Zuma.
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/ 12 January 2009
The National Prosecuting Authority is no longer set on prosecuting African National Congress leader Jacob Zuma, a media report said on Monday.
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/ 11 January 2009
Ukraine, Russia and the EU struck a monitoring agreement on Sunday that should enable the resumption of Russian supplies to Europe.
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/ 9 December 2008
EU leaders must show US president-elect Barack Obama they are serious about tackling economic slowdown and climate change by agreeing firm action.
Europe, North Africa and the Middle East launched the Union for the Mediterranean on Sunday pledging cooperation on water, energy and education.
Russia’s deployment of extra troops in the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia has brought the prospect of war ”very close”, a minister of ex-Soviet Georgia said on Tuesday. Separately, the ”foreign minister” of the breakaway Black Sea region was quoted as saying it was ready to hand over military control to Russia.
United States President George Bush set the stage for a clash at his last Nato summit on Wednesday by pressing reluctant West European allies to set former Soviet republics Georgia and Ukraine on a path to membership. He also urged allies to follow the example of France and host nation Romania in providing extra troops for Nato’s battle against Islamist insurgents in Afghanistan.
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/ 19 October 2007
European Union leaders voiced relief at clinching a deal on Friday on a treaty to reform the 27-nation bloc’s institutions, replacing a defunct constitution and ending a two-year crisis of confidence in Europe’s future. ”It’s an important page in the history of Europe,” Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates said on arriving to chair the second day of an EU summit.
Nato allies are studying a request from the African Union to provide air transport for its troops in Somalia, an alliance official said on Wednesday. ”We are seeking military advice on how to respond to the request. There is an intention among allies to help,” said the official of an AU request he said Nato received in recent days.
United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice dismissed as nonsense on Thursday concerns in Moscow that a planned US missile shield in Eastern Europe could pose a strategic threat to Russia. In a further sign of growing tensions between Russia and the West, President Vladimir Putin in Moscow declared a moratorium on a key 1990 European arms treaty.