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EU-Russia summit sees climate progress but human rights row

AFP Global Edition 2 days ago

EU criticism of Russia's human rights record and fears Moscow will delay its WTO entry clouded EU-Russia talks Wednesday, but the two sides aligned on the climate ahead of the Copenhagen conference in December. Russia agreed to cut its greenhouse gas emissions ...

EU-Russia summit tackles thorny gas issue

AFP Global Edition 2 days ago

EU and Russian leaders met in Stockholm on Wednesday for a summit dominated by energy issues, as Europe hopes to avoid an interruption of Russian natural gas supplies via Ukraine this winter. Sweden, current holder of the rotating European Union presidency, is ...

EU-Russia leaders seek to avert new gas blockade

AFP Global Edition 2 days ago

EU and Russian leaders held a summit on Wednesday dominated by efforts to avoid a new natural gas blocade this winter. Sweden, current holder of the European Union presidency, was also to press Moscow on the sensitive topic of human rights, climate ...

Russia Attack

AP News 2 days ago

FILE - In this Feb. 9, 2007 file photo, activists of the pro-Kremlin group 'Young Russia' express their disapproval for the planned construction of a U.S. missile defense system in the Czech Republic as they hold a banner reading, "We will not ...

Antiracists and far-right youths battle in Moscow

AP News 2 days ago

Antiracists, far-right youth battle in Moscow after slaying of activist known as 'Bonebreaker' A simmering confrontation between far-right youths and ant-racist activists has erupted into Moscow's streets after the fatal shooting of an anti-racist activist known as the Bonebreaker. The violence stems ...

Energy issues top bill at EU-Russia summit

AFP Global Edition 2 days ago

EU and Russian leaders meet at a summit in Stockholm on Wednesday set to be dominated by energy issues, as Europe hopes to avoid an interruption of Russian natural gas supplies via Ukraine this winter. Sweden, which currently holds the rotating European ...

Campaigner against hate crimes killed in Moscow

AP News 3 days ago

Campaigner against hate crimes shot and killed in the Russian capital Russian prosecutors say an anti-hate crimes campaigner has been shot and killed in Moscow. The Prosecutor General's Investigative Committee says the man killed Monday was an active campaigner against neo-Nazi groups. ...

EU, Russia hope for new start despite differences

Reuters US Online Report World News 3 days ago

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The European Union and Russia hope to lay the foundations of a new economic and political partnership at a summit on Wednesday despite differences over energy, trade, human rights and climate change. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and the EU's ...

Cannibals nabbed selling corpse to kebab house

Reuters US Online Report Oddly Enough 4 days ago

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian police have arrested three homeless people suspected of eating a 25-year-old man they had butchered and selling other bits of the corpse to a local kebab house. Suspicions were raised when dismembered parts of a human body were ...

Russia, EU sign energy early warning pact

AFP Global Edition 4 days ago

Russia and the EU on Monday signed an energy early warning agreement they said would help avert sudden disruption of supply amid growing unease in Europe over possible cuts in gas supplies this winter. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin separately said that Russia ...

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