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Tuesday, 30 April 2024 01:59
The Suez Canal. Between 12 and 15 percent of total world trade goes through this maritime shortcut bottleneck — making it a prime target (Photo: Wikimedia) When I left as an envoy f ...
Politics
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Tuesday, 30 April 2024 01:59
The Council and European Parliament’s negotiators today reached a provisional political agreement on a proposal to phase out the use of dental amalgam and prohibit the manufacturing ...
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Tuesday, 30 April 2024 01:59
Mapping the contribution of feminisation to gender gaps across Europe, a new ETUI study has found a concerning trend: as the share of women in a job increases, pay, supervisory resp ...
Health
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Tuesday, 30 April 2024 01:59
The foresight portfolio has enabled the European Commission to forge closer ties with civil society organisations, making it easier to take their views on board and turning EU futur ...
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Tuesday, 30 April 2024 01:59
Germany’s late decision to oppose an EU due diligence law has raised fears of its collapse at a key vote on Friday (Photo: Adeolu Eletu / Unsplash) Business and civil society groups ...
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Tuesday, 30 April 2024 01:59
A man was arrested during a pro-Palestine protest in Liverpool for seemingly little other than the ‘crime’ of engaging in free speech and carrying a British flag in Britain. The incident was c ...
Politics
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Tuesday, 30 April 2024 01:59
A group of major wildlife charities in the UK have told the government that the countryside is “racist” because it is dominated by “white British cultural values”. White British cultural value ...
Culture
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Tuesday, 30 April 2024 01:59
A French sports-car journalist promised ‘out of this world’ ecstasy and enlightenment to anyone (particularly women) who followed the teachings that he claimed to have learned via his alien abd ...
Breaking news
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Tuesday, 30 April 2024 01:59
Refugee Women Academy announces new training initiatives in 2024 Piraeus Bank and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, are pleased to announce the continuation of the Refugee Women Acade ...
Culture
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Tuesday, 30 April 2024 01:59
With a slim majority of 307 votes in favour, 263 against and 41 abstentions, MEPs voted to authorize food crops that have been genetically modified using new techniques. Despite ...
Culture
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Tuesday, 30 April 2024 01:59
Czech foreign minister Jan Lipavsky (left, with back to camera), with Israeli ambassador to the EU Haim Regev (c) and Israel’s foreign minister Israel Katz (r) in Brussels in January (Photo: c ...
Business
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Tuesday, 30 April 2024 01:59
In the ever-evolving landscape of finance, groundbreaking technology is making waves and reshaping the way we think about transactions and monetary systems — writes Thea Payne. Bloc ...
Opinion