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European Economic Affairs Commissioner Pierre Moscovici said he was working to avoid Italy being sanctioned after the EC in October rejected its 2019 budget
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01.08.2024
Moscovici says working to avoid sanctions on Italy
A luxury yacht reportedly worth some $250 million was one of the trophy assets allegedly bought with money stolen from 1MDB
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01.08.2024
1MDB: Malaysia's extraordinary financial scandal
The meetings between the US and the Taliban are the latest in a flurry of diplomatic efforts as Washington seeks a way out of the conflict, which began with the US invasion in 2001
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01.08.2024
Afghanistan sends team to join Taliban peace talks in UAE
Colombia Diversa, an NGO that advocates for LGBT people, welcomed the ruling as historic and said it was important the judge recognized the victim as a woman even though she had not changed her given male name
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01.08.2024
Colombia hands down first conviction for murder of trans woman
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Eighty journalists have been killed worldwide so far this year -- most notably the Saudi columnist Jamal Khashoggi (C) -- with 348 in jail and 60 more held hostage, according to RSF
World 01.08.2024
Hatred stirred by leaders blamed for rise in journalist murders: watchdog
Activists from Greenpeace, one of the NGOs who accuse France of not respecting its short-term climate objectives, take part in a march for climate in Paris earlier this month
World 01.08.2024
NGOs launch legal action against France over climate
China's President Xi Jinping vowed to press ahead with economic reforms but made clear that Beijing will not deviate from its one-party system or take orders from any other country
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Xi warns no one can 'dictate' China's path, 40 years on from reforms
President Xi Jinping's speech came as China faces stern challenges from the United States on trade and diplomatic fronts
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No one can 'dictate' to China what it should, shouldn't do: Xi
Japan's new five-year defence plan calls for the military to upgrade two existing "helicopter carriers" so that they will also be able to launch fighter jets
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Japan approves defence plan including two aircraft carriers
The clans' latest show of force was the recent funeral of an infamous underworld figure, when 2,000 mourners congregated in Berlin
World 01.08.2024
Arab refugees in sights of Berlin's crime 'clans'
South Korea's fertility rate -- the number of children a woman is expected to have in her lifetime -- fell to 0.95 in the third quarter of 2018, the first time it has dropped below 1 and far short of the 2.1 needed to maintain stability
World 01.08.2024
'No place for a mother': S. Korea battles to raise birth rate
Immaculate Nyakato, 65, fled her home in Ituri, eastern DR Congo in fear of violence from another ethnic group
World 01.08.2024
DR Congo refugees put little faith in coming elections
In the villages like Ifotaka, at the southern tip of Madagascar, the noise of the country's election campaign seems far away as locals confront more pressing needs in a daily struggle for food
World 01.08.2024
In southern Madagascar, voters struggle for food before ballot
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