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The 12th China-EU summit is to be held on November 30 in Nanjing, the capital of east China's Jiangsu province.

The Infectious Diseases Society of America has asked for a commitment from the Obama administration and the European Union to further the Society's mission to achieve the development of 10 new antibiotics within the next 10 years, known as the 10 x '20 Initiative.

Negotiators at a U.N. climate conference in Spain further defined plans for reducing greenhouse emissions and continued work on a draft climate change treaty, with next month's deadline for a legal document increasingly in doubt.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and EU Commission President JosA© Manuel Barroso pose for media at the summit between the European Union and Russia at Grand Hotel in Stockholm, Sweden, 18 November 2009.

Tony Blair, shown at a crossing between the West Bank and Israel, didn't get the EU presidency but remains a Mideast envoy.

Belgian prime minister is a low-key politician with a reputation for conciliation, some are deeply disappointed that European leaders failed to choose a more forceful and high profile personality to represent the regional bloc on the world stage.

The European Union's 27 leaders were facing an all-nighter Thursday as a bruising battle loomed over who to name as the bloc's first full-time president and new foreign policy chief.

EU leaders are braced for a showdown over who leads Europe, after the failure of behind-the-scenes talks to select a "President" and "High Representative for Foreign Affairs". The two new key posts are created by the Lisbon Treaty, but there was no clear consensus on who should be appointed to either job just hours ahead of the Thursday night ...

Taoiseach Brian Cowen travels to Brussels later today for a summit to discuss the appointments of a new EU President and foreign affairs chief.

Angela Merkel was today revealed to be supporting Belgium's Prime Minister, Herman Van Rompuy, for Europe's first president, in the clearest sign yet that he is the man to beat for the top job.

Belgium's prime minister, Herman van Rompuy, left, who is strongly tipped to become European council president, with Swedish prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, who is chairing the summit where the selection will be made.

A summit this week to appoint an EU president and foreign affairs chief looks set to run over schedule with no clear candidates agreed despite long consultations, EU officials said on Tuesday.

Cecilia Malmstrom , currently Sweden's EU affairs minister, has been named as the successor to the country's outgoing EU commissioner, Margot Wallstrom.

One British official said: 'There is no consensus. Blair is not dead. He still stands a chance.' Photograph: Paulo Duarte/AP Tony Blair still stands an outside chance of assuming the new post of president of the European council, amid signs that EU leaders will take the selection process down to the wire at an emergency summit on Thursday.

EU and Russian leaders will open summit talks in Sweden on Wednesday in an atmosphere clouded by uneasy relations between Moscow and Stockholm over human rights and last's year's war in Georgia.

British scientists are examining the strain of swine flu behind a deadly Ukrainian outbreak to see if the virus has mutated.

Monday, 9 November 2009, 3:27 pm Press Release: Delegation of the European Commission to NZ Climate was the most important issue during this week's summit between the European Union and the United States.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will attend an EU-Russia summit in Stockholm on November 17-18 to discuss energy security and a new cooperation pact, a Kremlin aide said on Friday.

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Eastern Europe is chipping away at the secretive nomination process for new EU posts created under the Lisbon Treaty, with Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves formally throwing his name into the ring on Thursday .

The European Union plans to hold a special summit next week to fill the new posts of EU president and EU foreign policy chief, but so far there is little agreement on who will get the top jobs.