Ukraine is putting pressure on the EU to include not just an oil price cap, but also an embargo on Russian gas in its next sanctions package. “While you are counting pennies, we are counting lives,” Oleg Ustenko, economic adviser of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, told POLITICO. EU ambassadors will discuss Ukraine at their meeting on […]
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Belgium must pay compensation of around €100,000 to convicted terrorist Nizar Trabelsi for the damage he suffered by being extradited to the U.S., a Brussels appeals court ruled Tuesday. The court also ruled that the Belgian government should ask the American authorities to send back Trabelsi. Trabelsi, a Tunisian former professional footballer, was convicted in […]
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BERLIN — Germany will “probably” extend the runtime of two of its three remaining nuclear power plants until April, Economy Minister Robert Habeck said Tuesday, blaming energy supply issues in France for the decision. He also announced more money for ailing German energy suppliers — something that could require Finance Minister Christian Lindner to suspend […]
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LIVERPOOL, England — As delegates amassed in Liverpool this week for the U.K. Labour Party’s annual get-together, the real drama was unfolding elsewhere. Monday morning saw the markets react brutally to the Conservative government’s tax-slashing mini-budget, with the pound plummeting to an all-time low and the cost of U.K. government borrowing forced sky-high. By lunchtime, […]
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Belgium, (Brussels Morning Newspaper) With the recent passing of Queen Elizabeth II, it would be hard to find a woman throughout history who has been more celebrated. For 70 years, Queen Elizabeth has been at the forefront of public attention as her life, her impact, family, and now her demise was there for public consumption. […]
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Belgium, (Brussels Morning Newspaper) France and Greece have proposed measures aimed at reining in rising energy prices. France wants to introduce a bloc-wide price cap on natural gas used in power plants to curb rising cost of energy, according to Reuters reporting on Tuesday. Greece proposed the founding of an EU fund to help companies […]
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A seminar on building common ground to seek international support to end the extermination of the identity of Tibetans, Uyghurs and Southern Mongolia under China’s repressive rule
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The UN chief on Monday issued a statement expressing deep sadness at the death of 15 people, including 11 children, Russia school shooting in the city of Izhevsk
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The staged votes earned broad international condemnation, and world leaders vowed not to recognize the announced results.
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Three weeks into her term, Prime Minister Liz Truss’s financial plans have thrown the markets and Britain’s currency into chaos and put her future in peril.
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