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The Commission today proposed safety standards for disposing spent fuel and radioactive waste from nuclear power plants as well as from medicine or research.
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Californians are casting ballots on a proposition to legalize limited use of marijuana.
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A severe drought pushes river levels in Brazil's Amazon region to record lows, isolating communities and strangling vital boat transport links.
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Preparations for the traditional Mexican Day of the Dead get underway in Mexico City as residents erect alters and bake bread for the deceased.
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President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė received German Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs Guido Westerwelle, who is currently visiting Lithuania.
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New plans for EU industry to create jobs while keeping manufacturing in Europe.
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The European Commission has approved two applications from Spain for assistance from the EU Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF).
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President Dalia Grybauskaitė extended condolences to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on the loss of life and damage caused by the tsunami and volcano eruption in Indonesia.
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President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė is attending a two-day meeting of the European Council in Brussels.
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New rules for the EU's single market will make it easier to live and do business anywhere in Europe.
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MEPs were disappointed that the Commission's EU budget review document had not sought the radical revision that the EU needs, they told Budgets Commissioner Janusz Lewandowski in a Policy Challenges Committee debate on Thursday.
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Today the European Commission has allocated €1.5 million in humanitarian assistance to survivors of the tsunami in Mentawai and the volcanic eruption of Mount Merapi in Java.
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A 25-ton humpback whale beached near Rio de Janeiro dies after several failed rescue attempts.
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At a public hearing on Wednesday, the legendary German film director Wim Wenders and other key figures from the European cinema landscape addressed the Committee on Culture and Education on the future of European cinema.
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MEPs on Monday welcomed recent Turkish constitutional reforms, describing them as a step forward, while stressing that much remains to be done to ensure full respect for human rights.
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EP President Jerzy Buzek and Belgian Prime Minister Yves Leterme opened the first meeting of the conciliation committee for the 2011 budget on Wednesday, a step which highlights the importance of the new budgetary procedure introduced by the Lisbon Treaty.
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Having finished the working visit in China, President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė left for Brussels to attend the European Summit.
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President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė met with Vice President Xi Jinping of the People's Republic of China in Beijing.
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A new exhibition at The Guggenheim Museum reveals winners of a worldwide competition of video art submitted via YouTube.
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One of the capsules built to rescue the Chile miners goes on display at the Shanghai World Expo.
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