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  • May 2008

    • Portugal PM Gets Heat for Smoking on Plane

      Guardian (UK)  |  May 16, 08 2:41 AM CDT

      Portugal PM Gets Heat for Smoking on Plane

      (Newser) - Portugal banned smoking in public places five months ago but the country's prime minister appears to have forgotten the rule his own government enacted. Jose Socrates—known to be a smoker in private—stunned passengers and triggered an uproar when he blithely lit up in the first-class cabin of a TAP flight from Lisbon to Caracas. More »

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      Venezuela  • Spain  • Portugal  • smoking ban  • Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero  • Caracas  • Lisbon  • secondhand smoke

  • December 2007
  • September 2007

    • Britain Boycotts African Summit

      Independent (UK)  |  Sep 20, 07 4:45 AM CDT

      Britain Boycotts African Summit

      (Newser) - Britain will boycott a summit bringing together leaders of the European Union and  African states because of the expected presence of  Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe. Prime Minister Gordon Brown told the  Independent  he wants to send a powerful message of concern to the leader responsible for widespread torture and the economic collapse of the once prosperous African nation. More »

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      Great Britain  • European Union  • Zimbabwe  • Gordon Brown  • Robert Mugabe  • boycott  • African Union  • summit  • Desmond Tutu  • Lisbon

  • July 2007

    • Portugal May Break Ban, Invite Mugabe

      Guardian (UK)  |  Jul 2, 07 5:58 AM CDT

      Portugal May Break Ban, Invite Mugabe

      (Newser) - Portugal has provoked a firestorm by proposing to invite Robert Mugabe to an upcoming summit of European and African nations, despite an EU ban prohibiting the Zimbabwean dictator from traveling on the Continent. The African Union insists all its members be treated equally, and EU refusal to invite Mugabe at the last such summit in 2003 torpedoed the proceedings before they began. More »

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      European Union  • Zimbabwe  • Robert Mugabe  • Angela Merkel  • Portugal  • African Union  • Lisbon

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