Full Coverage: Western Europe

16.10.2009 The prosector of the International Criminal Court is looking into last month’s events in Guinea, where at least 150 people were killed when security forces opened fire on an opposition rally.

10.06.2009 Reports that French company Veolia has abandoned the $500 million rail project linking Jerusalem and illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank has been welcomed by the anti-poverty charity War on Want.

30.05.2009 Mosaïques, the French Institute's annual celebration of cultural diversity, is back, with another lively mix of world cinema, music and live events.

02.04.2009 Unlawful killings, beatings, racial abuse and excessive use of force by law enforcement officials are rarely investigated effectively in France and those responsible seldom brought to justice, says a new report.
+ “Dangerous trend” condemned after anti-crime unit questions four journalists over Sarkozy video

26.02.2009 German state bans on religious symbols and clothing for teachers and other civil servants discriminate against Muslim women who wear the headscarf, a leading international rights group said in a report released today.

29.01.2009 While political and business leaders gather in Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum, campaigning NGOs are gathering in Zurich to expose alleged malpractice by Swiss food giant, Nestlé.

07.01.2009 An Anglo-French oil company is poised to send more than 800 workers into a remote part of the Peruvian Amazon inhabited by uncontacted Indians.

12.08.2008 A Greenpeace team has begun placing 150 granite rocks on the bed of the German North Sea in an effort to stop fishing boats from bottom trawling.

08.08.2008 Three companies have been named "worst for abusing tribal peoples’ rights" in a statement marking the UN Day for Indigenous Peoples on 9 August.
+ Supreme Court gives go-ahead to mine – tribe vows resistance

05.08.2008 Greenpeace France has launched two court cases in an effort to find out what’s really been going at the French nuclear site Tricastin-Pierrelatte, which has been hit by a series of accidents.

25.07.2008 Austria has banned the import of the "highly dangerous" genetically engineered maize MON 863, produced by US agro-chemical giant Monsanto.

15.07.2008 A judgment by Switzerland's highest judicial body "sets a grave precedent for independent humanitarian action in zones of conflict," says an international medical organisation.

23.04.2008 Small farmers from around the world celebrated last week the International Day of Peasant's Struggle and honored the communities and organizations in over 25 countries that are challenging escalating food costs.

07.04.2008 Security measures for the Olympic torch relay’s passage through Paris are "shameful", according to an international media freedom group.

25.03.2008 British and French leaders Gordon Brown and Nicholas Sarkozy will this week sign up to an entente atomique and herald a new era of cross-Channel cooperation.

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11.03.2008 President Bush rallied rich nations last week to join the the U.K., Japan, and the United States in committing billions of dollars for developing countries to expand their renewable energy capacity.

10.03.2008

18.01.2008 NEW YORK, Jan 18 (OneWorld) - London and Paris were given a prestigious award this week for their innovative citywide programs to improve public transit and reduce traffic congestion and greenhouse gas emissions.

26.12.2007 Six French aid workers have been sentenced to eight years of forced labour for attempting to kidnap more than 100 African children, who they said were Darfuri orphans.
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