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Just a few days after the final withdrawal of international troops from Afghanistan, the Taliban is continuing to establish its rule despite humanitarian problems and grim economic forecasts. The new government is to be presented after today's Friday...
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In many European countries the new school year began on September 1. Hopes were high that after 18 months of closed schools, homeschooling, compulsory Covid tests and face masks there would be a return to normality. But the Delta variant is driving u...
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During Volodymyr Zelensky's visit to the White House on Wednesday, Joe Biden promised Ukraine 60 million dollars in military aid to defend itself against Russian aggression. In a final statement, both presidents described the Nord Stream 2 pipeline a...
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Spain's General Council of the judiciary, which is responsible for appointing important judicial posts, has been in office for almost three years on a caretaker basis because it has been impossible to reach a three-fifths majority in parliament since...
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He was a composer, conductor, songwriter, politician and activist. He achieved world fame with the film music for Zorba the Greek and was revered as a folk hero in his homeland. Now Mikis Theodorakis has died in Athens aged 96. The government ordered...
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Despite all the complaints about the slow pace of vaccination in the EU, the European Commission's goal of vaccinating 70 percent of adults by the end of the summer has now been achieved. The vaccination rates among individual member states vary wide...
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The Taliban's rapid recapture of Afghanistan came as a shock and dealt a major blow to the West. Commentators in Europe's media examine the consequences for neighbouring countries and Europe.
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In the village of Harskamp in the Netherlands, around 250 mostly young Dutch people demonstrated last week outside a local military base housing Afghan refugees. While conservative and right-wing populist politicians voiced sympathy with the demonstr...
Updates / Updates - 1 year ago
In the village of Harskamp in the Netherlands, around 250 mostly young Dutch people demonstrated last week outside a local military base housing Afghan refugees. While conservative and right-wing populist politicians voiced sympathy with the demonstr...
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Former Austrian vice-chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache has been given a fifteen-month suspended prison sentence for corruption in office. The former leader of the right-wing populist Austria Freedom Party (FPÖ) was accused of helping to change a law...
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Former Austrian vice-chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache has been given a fifteen-month suspended prison sentence for corruption in office. The former leader of the right-wing populist Austria Freedom Party (FPÖ) was accused of helping to change a law...
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The Russian people will elect their representatives in the State Duma on September 19. The election will have little impact on the power of Putin and his ruling party United Russia, commentators say. But for some observers the fact that in addition t...
Updates / Updates - 1 year ago
The Russian people will elect their representatives in the State Duma on September 19. The election will have little impact on the power of Putin and his ruling party United Russia, commentators say. But for some observers the fact that in addition t...