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Belgium’s strict COVID measures constitutional, can be used in future pandemics, top court rules big-plus
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Sunday, 12 May 2024 00:54

Law allows government to restrict entry into the country, limit freedom of assembly and require people to work if needed. BRUSSELS — The law Belgium passed to handle the coronavirus pandemic is ...

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Pushback grows over Brussels’ plan to link trade to migrant returns big-plus
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World Pushback grows over Brussels’ plan to link trade to migrant returns

Sunday, 12 May 2024 00:54

EU institutions gear up for talks on revising long-standing tariffs scheme. The EU could be at risk of breaching global trade rules — if it pushes ahead with a controversial plan to link trade ...

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Ukraine hits major Russian air base a day after kamikaze drone crashed down just 68 miles from the Kremlin big-plus
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World Ukraine hits major Russian air base a day after kamikaze drone crashed down just 68 miles from the Kremlin

Sunday, 12 May 2024 00:54

Ukraine is suspected to have struck a major Russian air base in Yeysk after massive explosions at the site, in yet another attack deep behind Moscow’s frontlines. Russian war channel Rybar admitte ...

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British journalist shows how the CIA played a Direct Role in the Creation of Google big-plus
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World British journalist shows how the CIA played a Direct Role in the Creation of Google

Sunday, 12 May 2024 00:54

Google “fundamentally started as a CIA project,” according to journalist and author of Propaganda in the Information Age, Alan MacLeod, who has warned that tech giants’ ties with intelligence agen ...

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Denmark jails ISIS wife and strips her of citizenship big-plus
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World Denmark jails ISIS wife and strips her of citizenship

Sunday, 12 May 2024 00:54

Danish-Bosnian woman lived as a housewife in Raqqa. A court in Denmark sentenced a 38-year-old woman to four years in prison and took away her Danish citizenship for “promoting” the ISIS terror ...

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OnlyFans loses EU court tax battle big-plus
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World OnlyFans loses EU court tax battle

Sunday, 12 May 2024 00:54

CJEU hits online platform — largely used by sex workers — in VAT case. OnlyFans, an online platform largely used by sex workers, lost a top European Union court battle that will require it to pa ...

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The EU and UK have a Northern Ireland deal — so what’s in it? big-plus
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World The EU and UK have a Northern Ireland deal — so what’s in it?

Sunday, 12 May 2024 00:54

The key concessions and single market safeguards in the newly-unveiled Windsor framework. LONDON — After four months of intense talks (and plenty of squabbling before that), the EU and U.K. have ...

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UK shelves controversial Northern Ireland Protocol Bill as EU deal reached big-plus
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World UK shelves controversial Northern Ireland Protocol Bill as EU deal reached

Sunday, 12 May 2024 00:54

Boris Johnson-era legislation that prompted pushback from Brussels now set to fall. LONDON — U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak ditched a Brussels-angering bill aimed at tearing up the Northern Ire ...

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EU sanctions add Russian writers who back the war big-plus
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World EU sanctions add Russian writers who back the war

Sunday, 12 May 2024 00:54

View of Kremlin with memorial to Boris Nemtsov, a Russian opposition leader murdered in 2015 (Photo: Jay Springett) The latest EU sanctions on Russia added more propagandists than earlier ...

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Sunak breaks impasse with EU trade deal on Northern Ireland big-plus
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World Sunak breaks impasse with EU trade deal on Northern Ireland

Sunday, 12 May 2024 00:54

UK prime minister Rishi Sunak welcomes EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen to Windsor, just outside London, on Monday (Photo: Flickr — Downing street 10) The EU and the UK agreed ...

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Erdoğan says sorry for earthquake rescue delays big-plus
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World Erdoğan says sorry for earthquake rescue delays

Sunday, 12 May 2024 00:54

Turkish president has come under heavy criticism from the opposition. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan apologized Monday for sluggish relief efforts after a series of deadly earthquakes k ...

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Dozens dead in migrant shipwreck off Italian coast big-plus
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World Dozens dead in migrant shipwreck off Italian coast

Sunday, 12 May 2024 00:54

Regional leader criticizes EU in the tragedy, citing years of inaction on migration crisis. At least 43 migrants drowned on Sunday after the fishing boat on which they were traveling sank off th ...

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