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China’s Xi to visit Putin in Russia next week big-plus
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Friday, 17 May 2024 08:00

Moscow will host state visit for Chinese president for first time since the start of the war on Ukraine. Chinese President Xi Jinping will pay a three-day visit to his Russian counterpart Vladim ...

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‘Hunting rifles’ — really? China ships assault weapons and body armor to Russia big-plus
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Sport ‘Hunting rifles’ — really? China ships assault weapons and body armor to Russia

Friday, 17 May 2024 08:00

Customs data obtained by POLITICO reveals direct shipments of Chinese assault rifles, as well as drone shipments and body armor routed via Turkey and the UAE. Chinese companies, including one co ...

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Swden court protect Migrant who set fire to Mother and Girlfriend big-plus
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Sport Swden court protect Migrant who set fire to Mother and Girlfriend

Friday, 17 May 2024 08:00

The identity of the foreign man who last weekend murdered a mother in her 50s and an 18-year-old woman in an arson attack in a Stockholm suburb is being classified as secret. The Södertö ...

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Macron invokes nuclear option to push through pensions reform in huge political setback big-plus
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Sport Macron invokes nuclear option to push through pensions reform in huge political setback

Friday, 17 May 2024 08:00

French President Emmanuel Macron bypassed parliament to get his flagship reform over the line, risking backlash from politicians and protesters that could wreck his presidency. PARIS — French Pr ...

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Will 2023 be the year of fair work conditions and social spending? big-plus
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Sport Will 2023 be the year of fair work conditions and social spending?

Friday, 17 May 2024 08:00

20 percent of jobs in Europe were of ‘poor quality’ in 2017 — can the so-called European Semester change that? (Photo: Unsplash) Every day, within the Brussels Bubble, dozens of arcane ter ...

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Germany to put 2 percent NATO spending pledge in writing big-plus
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Sport Germany to put 2 percent NATO spending pledge in writing

Friday, 17 May 2024 08:00

Berlin plans to make the first-of-its-kind commitment in a much-delayed national security strategy due next month. BERLIN — Germany will soon commit itself for the first time in writing to hitti ...

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Walls and forced returns, Europe’s only response to migration big-plus
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Sport Walls and forced returns, Europe’s only response to migration

Friday, 17 May 2024 08:00

Walls, repatriations, high-tech surveillance: Europe is pushing ahead with its policy of closure, expulsions and militarised borders. In the third quarter of 2022 alone, the EU repatriated 31,8 ...

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The lobbying effort to save the EU’s fossil boiler industry big-plus
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Sport The lobbying effort to save the EU’s fossil boiler industry

Friday, 17 May 2024 08:00

The European People’s Party pushed hard for an amendment that creates breathing space for boilers. There’s a boiler-sized loophole in proposed rules for renovating buildings to make them more ef ...

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EU and Thailand revive trade talks after yearslong hiatus big-plus
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Sport EU and Thailand revive trade talks after yearslong hiatus

Friday, 17 May 2024 08:00

Brussels froze negotiations following a military coup in Thailand in 2014. The European Union and Thailand are relaunching negotiations on a free trade deal, the European Commission said Wednes ...

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DUP seeks changes to UK-EU deal on making Brexit work in Northern Ireland big-plus
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Sport DUP seeks changes to UK-EU deal on making Brexit work in Northern Ireland

Friday, 17 May 2024 08:00

Democratic Unionist leader Jeffrey Donaldson highlights ‘fundamental problems’ in Windsor Framework – but doesn’t slam the door on accepting the deal. DUBLIN — Democratic Unionist Party leader J ...

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Welsh Government Says Statues of ‘Old White Men’ Should be Removed Because They are Offensive big-plus
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Sport Welsh Government Says Statues of ‘Old White Men’ Should be Removed Because They are Offensive

Friday, 17 May 2024 08:00

The Welsh government says that statues of “old white men” such as Admiral Nelson should be removed or even destroyed because they may be “offensive” to Britain’s increasingly multicultural populat ...

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Looser EU fiscal rules agreed, with ‘country-specific’ flexibility big-plus
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Sport Looser EU fiscal rules agreed, with ‘country-specific’ flexibility

Friday, 17 May 2024 08:00

Economy commissioner Paolo Gentiloni stressed the rules should be fit for ‘new realities’ (Photo: European Commission) EU finance ministers on Tuesday (14 March) agreed on new European deb ...

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