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Fresh agitation emerged this month over mobile phones, with the Council of Europe recommending a ban on them – along with WiFi * networks– in schools. … Read More »
A seemingly odd group of ten countries, one of them Australia, has launched a fresh move to try to curtail nuclear armament, at a gathering of their Foreign Ministers in Berlin.
Around the corner, in the German capital, protesters were gearing up for their annual May Day parades, along with counterparts in many other German cities; some fighting had already started in Hamburg between left-wing and extreme right groups; and the police grabbed three men, at Dusseldorf and Bochum, charging them with preparing a terrorist attack. … Read More »
Australia, New Zealand and the European Union will be caucusing during the coming week, ahead of forthcoming international trade talks under the auspices of the World Trade Organisation. … Read More »
The European Commission will go ahead with a formal process to investigate the Google company over complaints of anti-trust behaviour, involving rigging of its computer search engine facility against competitors.
A preliminary inquiry was made earlier this year.
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Social confrontation throughout France has taken on an increasingly serious aspect since the first of the current series of trade union rallies brought out a million protestors on Tuesday — with another huge turn-out at a follow-up event in Paris at the weekend (16.10.10). … Read More »
Workers from several European Union countries have completed an underground link, to create the world’s longest tunnel. … Read More »
COMMENTARY: A flood of toxic sludge from a ruptured dam, at an alumina plant in South-west Hungary has brought death and destruction, with four dead and 120 hurt, and a pollution threat to the Danube River. What happened and how? Where is the waste material from? What happens now? … Read More »