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The German Bundestag , the lower house of parliament, voted 515-58 Thursday to approve the EU reform treaty , formally known as the Treaty of Lisbon ....

The National Council of the Slovak Republic voted 103-5 Thursday to ratify the EU reform treaty , formally known as the Treaty of Lisbon . Previous attempts to vote on the treaty...

Aung Din : "All the points mentioned in the resolution are truly strong and necessary. However, this resolution can not be called "strong" as it does not have binding power and enforcement mechanism. There were...

The UN Human Rights Council passed a resolution Friday condemning the military government of Myanmar for ongoing systematic violations of human rights and people's fundamental freedoms. The European Union expressed...

The National Assembly of Bulgaria Friday voted 195-15 to approve the new EU reform treaty , properly known as the Treaty of Lisbon . Ten members of the nationalist Ataka party [party...

Slovenian Interior Minister Dragutin Mate said Friday that a European Union plan to archive and exchange air passenger data had general support among EU ministers and could take effect as early as 2009. Interior ministers from EU...

New International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Chief Prosecutor Serge Brammertz does not plan to amend his predecessor's tough stance on Serbian cooperation, Reuters reported an ICTY spokeswoman as saying Monday....

The Hungarian parliament Monday voted 185 to 164 to recognize civil partnerships between same-sex couples, giving them the same inheritance, tax, and financial rights as married heterosexual couples. Same-sex couples will not, however, be able...

Mary E. Gibson, Pitt Law '08, files from Prishtina:Independence for Kosovo is nothing new — independence fervor did not begin in 1998 when conflicts escalated from Slobodan MiloÅ¡ević's ethnic cleansing of Albanians. Rather, it's been fermenting since before the Ottoman...

The US State Department Tuesday cited the governments of 16 countries, including 11 predominantly Islamic states, for not making a "significant effort to combat human trafficking" in its annual report on modern-day slavery around the...