The tour, which starts in Slovenia for a U.S.-European Union summit, likely will be his last trip to the continent during his presidency.
Complaining of disarray among the Social Democrats and of the government's sharp U-turn over the European Union, the People's Party demanded a snap election, which will take place on September 28th.
The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees is now the biggest outside spender of the 2010 elections, thanks to an 11th-hour effort to boost Democrats that has vaulted the public-sector union ahead of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the AFL-CIO and a flock of new Republican groups in campaign spending.
Both the U.S. and Soviet Union tested anti-satellite technology in the 1980's, and the U.S. even shot down one of its orbiting satellites in 1985.
Under the terms of this side letter, however, the United States agrees not to collect on the Lend-Lease debt until the U.S. government makes available to the Soviet Union export credits, guarantees and insurance through the U.S. Export-Import Bank and other government credit facilities!
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The shares to be sold are owned by the U.S. Treasury, a union-run trust and Canadian federal and provincial governments, said the people familiar with the plan.
BRUSSELS, Belgium (CNN) -- European Union leaders supported a U.N. peace initiative for Kosovo Wednesday, but they repeated that NATO's bombing campaign would stop only when Belgrade meets the alliance's key demands.
Under a tentative peace deal, al-Bashir agreed in November to a three-phase U.N. plan to strengthen the overstretched, 7, 000-strong African Union force in Darfur.
The Center for Security Policy has long documented Germany's self-serving and dangerous policies toward the former Soviet Union and repeatedly urged the U.S. government not to abdicate leadership on East-West relations to Bonn.
Dempsey pointed out that at the time the U.N. drafted the Outer Space Treaty, there were only two spacefaring nations -- the U.S. and the Soviet Union.
Facebook claimed that it complied with the U.S.- EU Safe Harbor Framework that governs data transfer between the U.S. and the European Union.
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The Bush Administration is nearly as intent as Moscow on adding the Soviet Union to the list of U.S.-approved, "secure" foreign suppliers of oil and natural gas.
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But to popular media columnist Natume Fusanosuke, Tezuka's work reflects real-life tensions -- specifically that between U.S. and the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War.
The Chinese case follows U.S. and European Union investigation into LCD price-fixing by several Asian companies between 2001 and 2006, when executives were accused of setting up an industry cartel to drive up prices.
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Ms. Merkel, acknowledging the failure so far to complete the Doha Round of trade negotiations, also expressed support for a free-trade agreement between the U.S. and the European Union.
The United States and the Soviet Union are expected to sign a U.S.-Soviet Maritime Agreement at the Summit which will establish a boundary-line between the United States and the Soviet Union in the Bering Straits.
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Mobile phone use has skyrocketed in Africa, climbing from 9.2 million subscribers in 2000 to more than 648 million subscribers in 2011 -- more users than the U.S. or the European Union, according to the World Bank.
European Union diplomats on Wednesday said a U.K.-led push to relax the arms embargo on Syria this month looks likely to stall, with most member states wanting to give the latest Syria peace initiatives more time before moving toward arming the opposition.
There is still trader and investor nervousness on the European Union sovereign debt front and on the U.S. debt-ceiling debate.
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That accusation is laid out in a lawsuit filed in 2001 in U.S. court in Miami by the Colombian food-and-drink union, Sinaltrainal.
In overnight news, the Euro currency hit a fresh six-week low against the U.S. dollar on fresh disappointing European Union economic news.
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Fred Koch studied chemical engineering at MIT and worked for the Soviet Union after big oil companies drove his U.S. refinery-engineering firm to the brink of bankruptcy with patent litigation in the early 1930s.
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And the May 9th commemoration in Russia is so important because it reminds us of the extraordinary sacrifices that the then-Soviet Union made and the strength of the alliance between the U.S. and the Russian people.
Obama announced that the U.S. will begin talks with the European Union on a trans-Atlantic trade agreement, as well as calling for increased spending to fix roads and bridges and the first increase in the minimum wage in six years.
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After WWII the U.S. faced unprecedented challenges--the emerging Cold War with the Soviet Union and the rebuilding and democratizing of shattered Europe and Japan.
Almost no one believes that the U.S. auto industry can be competitive in its current state, but some members of Congress--as well as automakers in the United Auto Workers (UAW) union--say that a bankruptcy would drag an already ailing U.S. economy into further depths.
U.S. officials say a letter sent tothe European Union's foreign-policy chief represents one of the least equivocal offers to negotiate Iran has ever made a declaration that it is ready to talk with the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany, the group the outside world has designated to handle talks.
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