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  • Westerwelle and a world beyond smiles, handshakes 9 Nov 2009 02:16 GMT
    ... his career after his party sidled into government with Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats in ... serious statesman began to emerge. Westerwelle, whose political gimmicks included touring the country in his ... by pointedly visiting Poland, then Luxembourg and Belgium before setting foot in France, to signal ...

  • Monday's Letters: City is being short-changed with trolley buses 9 Nov 2009 08:54 GMT
    ... Switzerland, Innsbruck in Austria and Ghent in Belgium. Leeds in the 1920s operated both trams ... with a trolley bus scheme, allowing the Government the opportunity to renege on its promise ... ideal involves slandering Michal Kaminski, the Polish politician who leads the European Conservatives and Reformists ...

  • African priest-educator to deliver justice lectures Tuesday 9 Nov 2009 12:10 GMT
    ... Radical Forgiveness and the Future of Nation-State Politics in Africa." Katongole is associate professor of ... sent to the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, where he earned a doctorate in philosophy. ...

  • Govt to Back Out of Deal With World Court? 9 Nov 2009 09:18 GMT
    ... Nairobi — The Kenyan Government on Sunday appeared to be having second ... the promise to arrest the suspects, Prime Minister Raila Odinga was non-committal. “We have not ... cornered in the suburbs of Brussels in Belgium. The African Union has been complaining that ...

  • EU urged to do more for Tibet ahead of China summit 9 Nov 2009 09:03 GMT
    ... December of that year caused the Chinese government to cancel a EU-China summit planned for ... versus ‘new' Europe. "With the exception of Belgium, eastern European countries appear to have more political will to meet with His Holiness and ...

  • The real Wall mart 9 Nov 2009 10:10 GMT
    ... thoroughfares and shopping districts. According to the government of Germany, there was an enormous sense ... York City • Outside the European Union parliament buildings in Brussels, Belgium • Outside the European Court of Human ...

  • Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi:Pakistan's peacemaker 9 Nov 2009 06:12 GMT
    ... Aisam-UI-Haq Qureshi, a Muslim, believes sports and politics shouldn’t be mixed. His track record suggests ... national champion for over a decade, from government of Pakistan that every year rewards an ... weeks. New York City, Kuala Lumpur, Mons, Belgium and Kolding, Denmark. He credits his father, ...

  • EU leaders to discuss top jobs at Berlin dinner 9 Nov 2009 10:14 GMT
    ... the president job is the Belgian prime minister Hermann van Rompuy. But the deal is ... van Rompuy, who is little known outside Belgium. EU colleagues are said to be impressed ... the fractious Belgian federation despite years of political turmoil. If Mr van Rompuy or Mr Balkenende ...

  • Queen leads Remembrance Day ceremony as Afghanistan claims two more British lives 9 Nov 2009 07:32 GMT
    ... the churned-up soil of Flanders Fields in Belgium, one of the key battlegrounds of World ... their job - it's up to the politicians to start doing theirs better. "If I'm ... "There's too much corruption in the Afghan government and we don't understand their culture. "But ...

  • Brussels sprouts a holiday favorite 9 Nov 2009 08:15 GMT
    ... cabbage-like vegetable, apparently first appeared in Brussels, Belgium in the 13th century and spread out, ... Jefferson, along with his many accomplishments in politics, science, agriculture and the arts, is credited ...

  • From Reno to the world 9 Nov 2009 10:33 GMT
    ... the next day and move on to Belgium and Italy during November. The young globetrotters ... and modern music; and India and Nepal, politics and poverty. Caughlin Ranch principal Kelly Keane ...

  • Search for EU leader moves into high gear in Berlin 9 Nov 2009 11:30 GMT
    ... French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown at a dinner, giving them ... talk to 26 heads of state and government," said Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, who ... diplomats in Brussels, the prime ministers of Belgium and the Netherlands, Herman Van Rompuy and ...

  • South Africa calls time on A400M 9 Nov 2009 10:13 GMT
    ... The South African government decided on 4 November to withdraw from ... official government statement, although South African Defence Minister Lindiwe Sisolu stressed that the country is ... - Germany, Spain, France, the UK, Turkey, Belgium and Luxembourg - ordered a total of ...

  • The Lisbon Treaty explained 8 Nov 2009 07:32 GMT
    ... gave a “cast-iron guarantee” that a Tory Government would hold a referendum on Lisbon. But ... been worse. Mr Cameron is a nimble-footed politician, and most Tory MPs are happy with ... Exactly. But he's the Prime Minister of Belgium, since you ask. nWon't elevating him to ...

  • Brown pressured to back Miliband for EU job 8 Nov 2009 17:51 GMT
    ... days at the top table of British politics are coming to an end The Prime ... Daily Telegraph. "The position of the British government is still unclear and uncertain. The situation ... to his Communist past. Herman Van Rompuy, Belgium's prime minister, is fending off Jan Peter ...


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