China will appeal a World Trade Organisation rejection of its curbs on exports of industrial raw materials, the government has said.
The EU’s foreign affairs chief has urged world governments to meet a "moral obligation" to send aid into the drought-hit Horn of Africa.
Trade and diplomatic ties between the largest economies in Africa and Europe will top the agenda at the fourth annual SA-EU summit in September.
A piecemeal ban on short-selling of financial stocks in Europe sparked a rush of alternative proposals from countries and regulators.
After the year of the PIG the idea of a currency union, especially emulating the EU model, agreed to by SADC, does not look terribly clever.
The country in the firing line is Italy, which accounts for 20% of the eurozone’s output, as opposed to Greece’s 3%.
Europe is sliding into a war with international credit-rating agencies it may struggle to win, following a tumultuous week.
Greek law-makers, under terrific urging from EU officials, elected to accept a package of austerity measures necessary to avert a government default.
The Greek Cabinet has approved the severe austerity budget plan demanded by the EU and IMF as a condition for help taming its massive debt.
The IMF’s acting managing director has said the recovery in the euro area was broadly sound, even though growth remained uneven and moderate overall.
Negotiations are under way to set in motion a long-term plan to boost trade among 26 countries around Africa, but analysts are sceptical about it.
Former Finance Minister Trevor Manuel says he won’t run for IMF chief, making French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde a firm favourite.
The banner flapped in the wind for almost a week, surviving the rigours of sun and sudden downpour.
The largely Catholic nation was the last EU member to not allow divorce but country votes for change in law through referendum.
The European Union and Japan agreed to start talks towards a multi-billion-euro free trade deallinking the world’s third biggest economy to the globe’
International officials on Tuesday urged Madagascar to install transitional leadership ahead of planned elections, hinting it could restart aid flows.
A year after the International Monetary Fund and the EU imposed their now infamous austerity memorandum on Greece, life here has changed radically.
Police clashed with protesters near the Greek Parliament on Wednesday as thousands demonstrated against a new wave of austerity cuts.
The freshly ungubernated Arnold Schwarzenegger may have his sights set on becoming the president of the European Union, according to <i>Newsweek</i>.
South Africa is under pressure from the EU to deliver a second term of the Kyoto Protocol at the global climate change negotiations in Durban.
A committee set up by Egypt’s military rulers will travel to Europe aiming to recover frozen assets belonging to deposed president Hosni Mubarak.
Microsoft on Thursday threw its weight behind a probe by European Union authorities into whether Google is unfairly thwarting competition.
Both are grappling with regional integration, but remain poles apart.
A push by several allies for the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation to take over operations in Libya ran into resistance from France on Monday.
Rebels battling Muammar Gaddafi appealed on Friday for arms and medical aid, while the EU insisted the Libyan strongman step down "without delay".
Nato and the EU begin two days of talks on Libya on Thursday focusing on a possible "no-fly" zone after a day of fierce fighting.
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/ 17 January 2011
An observer mission said on Monday that the secession of South Sudan was "virtually certain" as polling stations wrapped up their counts.
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/ 13 January 2011
China said it will be "difficult" for its ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency to tour Iran’s nuclear facilities.
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/ 11 January 2011
German authorities said on Tuesday the highly toxic chemical dioxin had been discovered in pork in addition to poultry products.
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/ 24 December 2010
China’s commerce minister warned that measures being taken in Europe to fix the sovereign debt crisis are "turning an acute disease into a chronic".
The EU decided to slap visa bans on 19 Ivorians, including incumbent president Laurent Gbagbo and his powerful wife, Simone.
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/ 13 December 2010
The EU said it is ready to slap "restrictive measures" against Côte d’Ivoire where Gbagbo is refusing to recognise his rival’s victory.