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Online marketplace Wish makes a comeback in France big-plus
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Politics Online marketplace Wish makes a comeback in France

Wednesday, 15 May 2024 21:08

The California-based platform had been removed in 2021. PARIS — U.S. online marketplace Wish is available in France again at the state’s request, a year and a half after it ordered the platform’ ...

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Earthquakes: European Commission and Swedish Presidency will host an International Donors’ Conference in support of the people in Türkiye and Syria on 20 March in Brussels big-plus
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Politics Earthquakes: European Commission and Swedish Presidency will host an International Donors’ Conference in support of the people in Türkiye and Syria on 20 March in Brussels

Wednesday, 15 May 2024 21:08

Co-hosted by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, and by Prime Minister of Sweden, Ulf Kristersson, for the Swedish Presidency of the Council, and organised in coordination ...

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EU countries’ tax-and-benefit systems penalise women big-plus
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Politics EU countries’ tax-and-benefit systems penalise women

Wednesday, 15 May 2024 21:08

93-percent of women looked after their under-age children on a daily basis — compared to 69-percent of men (Photo: Unsplash) How tax-and-benefit systems are structured has a major impact o ...

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Several killed in Hamburg shooting at Jehovah’s Witness hall big-plus
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Politics Several killed in Hamburg shooting at Jehovah’s Witness hall

Wednesday, 15 May 2024 21:08

Police are still investigating a motive. Multiple people were killed and others seriously injured in a shooting at a Jehovah’s Witness hall Thursday night in Hamburg, according to media reports. ...

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Top EU court should overturn football’s homegrown player rules: Court aide big-plus
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Politics Top EU court should overturn football’s homegrown player rules: Court aide

Wednesday, 15 May 2024 21:08

Rules discriminate against foreign players, and some of their provisions are incoherent, advocate general of the EU Court of Justice says. The European Union’s top court should overturn European ...

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EU officials distance themselves from intel on Nord Stream blasts big-plus
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Politics EU officials distance themselves from intel on Nord Stream blasts

Wednesday, 15 May 2024 21:08

European politicians are jumping to no conclusions regarding new allegations of Ukrainian involvement in pipeline sabotage. STOCKHOLM — European officials wanted nothing to do Wednesday with rep ...

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Ukraine and UN call for Black Sea grain deal extension big-plus
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Politics Ukraine and UN call for Black Sea grain deal extension

Wednesday, 15 May 2024 21:08

Initiative is ‘critical’ for global food security, says United Nations chief. United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday c ...

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EU tells UK its asylum plan ‘violating international law’ big-plus
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Politics EU tells UK its asylum plan ‘violating international law’

Wednesday, 15 May 2024 21:08

Commissioner Ylva Johansson takes aim at Illegal Migration Bill as U.K.‘s Suella Braverman pushes back. BRUSSELS — The European Union warned Britain its crackdown on Channel migrant crossings vi ...

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EU leaders to bless joint-ammunition buying for Ukraine big-plus
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Politics EU leaders to bless joint-ammunition buying for Ukraine

Wednesday, 15 May 2024 21:08

EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen greets Ukrainian president Volodomyr Zelensky at the last EU summit in Brussels on 9 February (Photo: ec.europa.eu) EU leaders are preparing to ...

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Massive pro-EU, anti-Russia protest erupts in Georgia big-plus
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Politics Massive pro-EU, anti-Russia protest erupts in Georgia

Wednesday, 15 May 2024 21:08

Protesters wave EU flags and chant ‘down with the Russian law’ as they clash with riot police in Tbilisi. Thousands of people demonstrated in Tbilisi overnight, waving EU flags and facing down r ...

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New legislation restricting missionary work breached the European Convention   big-plus
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Politics New legislation restricting missionary work breached the European Convention  

Wednesday, 15 May 2024 21:08

In today’s Chamber judgment1 in the case of Ossewaarde v. Russia (application no. 27227/17) the European Court of Human Rights held, unanimously, that there had been: a violation of Arti ...

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U.S. intelligence suggests a pro-Ukrainian group destroyed the Nord Stream pipes big-plus
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Politics U.S. intelligence suggests a pro-Ukrainian group destroyed the Nord Stream pipes

Wednesday, 15 May 2024 21:08

The New York Times has reported that U.S. intelligence suggests a pro-Ukrainian group destroyed the Nord Stream pipes that delivered Russian natural gas to Europe in September 2022, but th ...

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