Full Coverage: Europe

30.09.2007 George Monbiot is one of the speakers at a meeting on "The issues and actions for climate change" in Bristol, 18 October.

29.09.2007 I For India uses the home movies and reel-to-reel tape recordings sent to his family in India by Dr Yash Pal Suri, following his migration to Darlington in 1965.

29.09.2007 Anna is a self-confident nine-year-old Parisian girl whose comfortable life is turned upside down in 1970 when her parents get politics – Chilean, pro-Allende politics.

28.09.2007 A group of Christian Aid activists arrive in the capital this weekend at the end of a 1,000 mile Cut the Carbon march from Northern Ireland to London that has brought the issue of climate change to the doorsteps of local people and to businesses and MPs across the country.

26.09.2007 On the eve of a replenishment meeting of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, G8 donors were pressed not to follow the poor example set by the UK.

25.09.2007 The Iraqi refugee crisis is reaching breaking point, with help from the international community "seriously inadequate", says a new Amnesty International report.

24.09.2007 To celebrate the launch of Amnesty's campaign, Unsubscribe, Amnesty is inviting bloggers, second lifers, social networkers, activists and anyone with an interest in changing the way the world is changed to an evening of wine, smoothies and stimulating speakers in a two-way conversation.

24.09.2007 As Iraqis leave their war-torn homeland in droves, the pressure of refugee resettlement has shifted from Iraq’s neighbors to industrialized countries farther afield, new statistics show.

24.09.2007 A rise in hate crimes, especially targeted at Jews and Muslims, is being seen in countries across Europe, according to a report published last week.

21.09.2007 A tsunami of violence has hit South Africa, writer Andre Brink says on Murder Most Foul, which will be shown on More4 at 9pm on Tuesday.

21.09.2007 Announcing the closure of the bluefin tuna fisheries in the Mediterranean and East Atlantic, the European Commission has recognised that European fleets overfished their quota last year and acknowledged failings in the reporting of catch data and illegal fishing.

21.09.2007 Education systems in countries of the former Soviet bloc are leaving millions of children behind each year, the UN Children's Fund warned.

21.09.2007 Greenpeace blogger Nathan explains why Greenpeace has complained to the Market Research Standards Board about the role of the pollsters employed by the government to conduct a public consultation on nuclear power.

20.09.2007 Among the works at an exhibition at London's ICA in October is a suggestion for a community called Extreme Green Guerillas where animal messengers replace mobile phones and modified urban vermin is preferable to free-range organic chicken.

20.09.2007 A double amputee bomb victim who heads an Angolan disability organisation was thrown off a Portuguese airlines flight to London, it was disclosed this week.

20.09.2007 Despite recent UK government moves, significant gaps and inconsistencies remain in protecting trafficked children in Britain, according to a new report launched today.

19.09.2007 Britain is a society increasingly fractured, with religious extremism on the rise and people becoming disconnected from one another, says the Commission for Racial Equality in its final report.
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19.09.2007 Britain, the world’s third largest user of lethal cluster bombs over the last 10 years, has renamed one of its two remaining cluster munitions in an effort to beat an expected worldwide ban next year, according to a group of humanitarian organisations.
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19.09.2007 Ukraine is to cover the site of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor with a vast metal shelter in a long overdue operation designed to prevent the further leak of deadly radiation.

18.09.2007 Virtually all GM crops are grown in vast monocultures for animal feed and the only beneficiaries are the biotech companies that own the patents and a few big farmers, a leading environmental group said in response to reports that the UK Government is backing a new push on GM crops.