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Democratic Republic of Congo: Singing and dancing for education
When bags, exercise books, pencils were handed out at a school in Democratic Republic of Congo, children sang and danced for half an hour, joyous they had the opportunity to study. Reporting...
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Ukrain Mourns After Deadly Voting Ambush
The European Union has imposed new sanctions on leading Russians as part of attempts to pressure Moscow over the Ukraine crisis. The fresh sanctions affect 13 people including Russian President...
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BRUSSELS European Union foreign ministers are considering adding more people to its Ukraine sanctions list but are not expected to go beyond visa bans and asset freezes before the May 25 elections in the east European nation.
British Foreign Secretary William Hague said Monday before an EU foreign ministers' meeting it is essential to show Moscow the bloc is ready to step up measures "depending on Russia's attitude toward the elections" in Ukraine.
He joined other ministers in dismissing Sunday's referendums in parts of eastern Ukraine as shams of democracy, saying "they are illegal by anybody's standards."
To date, the EU has ordered visa bans and asset freezes for 48 people. Dutch foreign minister Frans Timmermans said there was room to add more people to that list before considering tougher action.
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EU considers expanding Ukraine sanctions list, but holds off on tougher sanctions
GENEVA The European Union accused Russia at the World Trade Organization on Monday of failing to do anything to reduce trade friction while the United States said Moscow was implementing more trade restrictions.
Although Russia and the European Union have both launched two trade disputes at each other in the past year - including one apiece last month - the European Union says Russia's illegal trade restrictions go beyond the ones already taken to the WTO.
"There's a real concern about a lot of issues," EU Ambassador to the WTO Angelos Pangratis told reporters after a meeting of the WTO's General Council, where he listed the EU's concerns and said Russia had failed to resolve a single one.
"This is a situation where we see an important [WTO] member not having the overall attitude that is expected."
At the meeting, U.S. Ambassador Michael Punke reeled off a shopping list of areas where Russia had failed to stick to WTO rules or failed to communicate its policies since it joined the global trading club in 2012, according to a transcript.
Russia in turn has already criticised the United States at the WTO for imposing economic sanctions on Russian individuals and companies, following Moscow's annexation of the Crimea peninsula, saying they are a breach of WTO rules.
Punke said the United States was very concerned by "a general rejection by Russia of one of the underlying goals of the WTO - the reduction of barriers to global trade, acutely demonstrated by recent trade actions aimed at Members particularly reliant on trade with Russia."
He mentioned Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania and Moldova as victims of Russian trade restrictions, as well as U.S. exports, and said Russia had tried "to at best obfuscate and at worse increase" various import tariffs.
"More broadly, we note that Russia is moving increasingly to build walls around its economy, whether through implementing trade restricting measures such as those already mentioned or by adopting import substitution and local content rules that have the same trade restrictive result," Punke said.
Pangratis told reporters that Russia's trade policies were "not convincing". Most of the WTO agreed, he said.
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