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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's plans for a Europe-wide security pact look set to be Russia's priority at the European Union-Russia summit in the French resort of Nice on Friday.
Medvedev first spoke of his desire to create a "treaty on the basic principles for security and intergovernmental relations in the Euro-Atlantic...
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's plans for a Europe-wide security pact look set to be Russia's priority at the European Union-Russia summit in the French resort of Nice on Friday.
Medvedev first spoke of his desire to create a "treaty on the basic principles for security and intergovernmental relations in the Euro-Atlantic...
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Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has called a Russian attack on the United States "absolutely unimaginable", but accused Washington of dangerously shrugging off the nuclear arms control regime set at the end of the Cold War, in an interview published Tuesday.
Lavrov ridiculed the recent Western commentary that has fretted over...
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Italy's near-bankrupt flagship carrier, Alitalia, is to continue with regular scheduled flights, at least until Monday September 22, according to the airline's government-appointed commissioner.
"Much depends on what will happen in the next few days," Commissioner Augusto Fantozzi said in the aftermath Thursday of the...
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Former Czech president Vaclav Havel has agreed to work with Czech-American film director Milos Forman on his planned new film, Havel's office confirmed Thursday.
Havel, a communist-era dissident playwright, has cooperated on a screenplay with Forman for a film about the 1938 Munich Conference, in which Czechoslovak allies allowed...
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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Monday that Russia should restore Soviet-era alliances with Cuba, news agencies reported.
'We need to rebuild position in Cuba and other countries,' Putin said
during a meeting with his deputy Igor Sechin on his return from talks
in Havana. The head of Russia's federal security...
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 Britain’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown denied on Friday speculations that his government would take a radical turn in its foreign policy and put some distance from the United States.The rumors surfaced after International Development Secretary Douglas Alexander said in a speech held in Washington on Thursday that Britain was a close ally...
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Russia's army on Wednesday continued its occupation of two enclaves in Georgia as Kremlin officials claimed they would accelerate what they said was an already in-progress withdrawal.
President Dmitry Medvedev promised his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy that all but a 500-strong contingent of peace keepers would leave Georgian...
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 On Monday, Facebook announced that a "significant part" of its platform code will be released as open-source. This comes one year after the launch of Facebook Platform, which gives third party developers the chance to write programs that work inside the social-networking site. More than 400,000 developers have taken advantage...
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 It seems that AOL has decided to support OpenSocial. This piece of information came out on Wednesday, at the Google I/O conference, during the speech of Google Director of Engineering David Glazer. OpenSocial was first announced by Google in October as a response to the multitude of already existing networks and future strategies...
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Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama
on Tuesday said the United States must broaden its foreign policy focus
beyond Iraq, as he pledged to end the war and focus on fighting al-
Qaeda in Afghanistan, while Republican John McCain put forward his
strategy for addressing ongoing violence there.
In a speech on foreign policy in...
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Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama
on Tuesday said the United States must broaden its foreign policy focus
beyond Iraq, as he pledged to end the war and focus on fighting al-
Qaeda in Afghanistan, while Republican John McCain put forward his
strategy for addressing ongoing violence there.
In a speech on foreign policy in...
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 Republican presidential candidate John McCain called yesterday
for a more cooperative foreign policy, claiming that the U.S. must be a
“good and reliable” friend and must stop excluding its allies, showing “decent
respect to the opinions of mankind.” His statement is drawing a sharp contrast
to the past years under President’s George...
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 TiVo Inc. has announced that it will start offering a service which will enable subscribers to download Walt Disney Co. movies from the TV to their broadband-connected DVR hard drives. TiVo already has a movie offer of more than 30,000 titles available through Amazon.com Inc.'s Unbox service, as well as through some other providers. The...
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 Yahoo and Microsoft are working at the same time, but
separately, in the attempt to facilitate the use of social networks even more.
Thus, on one hand, Yahoo is teaming up with Google and MySpace
with the goal of forming a foundation called OpenSocial. According to CNET News.com,
the purpose of this new independent non-profit...
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The amount of ink spilt on Nelson Mandela,
one of the world's favourite statesman, is bewildering. Enter his name
in the book section of amazon.com website and you get 12,417 entries.
From a plethora of biographies of the anti-apartheid icon, authorized
and otherwise, to collections of his favourite folktales, and...
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 Kenya's parliament is set to open Tuesday for the first time since
flawed presidential elections last month touched off a wave of violence
in the usually peaceful country that has killed at least 575 people,
according to the Kenyan Red Cross Society.
The opposition Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) is set to take its
seats...
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 Yahoo revealed
on Tuesday a brand new mobile phone tool that will allow people to keep up with
topics they are interested in using dynamic bookmarks. Called OnePlace, the new service was
set to be launched in the second quarter of the year.
Thanks to this
new tool that Yahoo developed for its mobile users, people will be able to...
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 Although Microsoft and Cisco are
rival companies on the market, it’s obvious that the clients’ demand for
interoperability must bring the two companies very close one to another. That
is why Microsoft and Cisco’s CEOs have met yesterday at the Mandarin Oriental
hotel from New York
and have promised their products will work well...
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 It seems that not only soap
operas have the fabulous characteristic of featuring surprising sudden changes,
such as the hero’s befriending his or her worst enemy or so. The high tech
industry appears to be a similar territory, where immediate interests are much
more important than long, well-known wars between rival companies....
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 After the breakthrough announcement from last week concerning the arrival of Ubuntu-powered machines, Dell is now ready to buy SUSE from….Microsoft.Microsoft’s “un-natural” partnership with SUSE Linux vendor Novell shows its first major fruitful outcome in the form of the recently announced partnership with Dell. According to the new...
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