Forsyth wrote more than 25 books including “The Afghan,” “The Kill List,” and “The Fist of God” that have sold over 75 million copies, his agent Jonathan Lloyd said.
Category: 3. Europe
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'Day of the Jackal' author Frederick Forsyth dies aged 86
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Alaska Airlines plans first Europe route, Seattle to Rome: Travel Weekly
Alaska Airlines will connect Seattle with Rome beginning next May. The service will be the first between Seattle and Rome, and Alaska’s first route to Europe.
Alaska intends to serve the route four times per week with a three-cabin Boeing 787-9…
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Beer-soaked nationalist rally in rural France turns into Marine Le Pen love-fest – POLITICO
Those who spoke took turns at the podium relaying their traditional talking points on everything from gender identity to clamping down on mass migration as the crowd chowed down on Peruvian fusion empanadas and the Maghrebi sausage variety, Merguez.
Everyone brought the love for Le Pen,…
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Mark Carney says Canada will meet NATO spending target this year
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney on Monday announced an ambitious defense spending target that would end Canada’s status as a NATO laggard and mollify frustrated Americans.
Carney committed to meeting the alliance’s current spending target of 2 percent in 2025, half a decade ahead of…
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Watch: The Argentinian team planting hope in the mountains
Juan Pablo Moreno is restoring the Great Mountains of Córdoba through the reforestation project Bosques de Agua.
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Why Europeans don’t buy American cars
U.S. president Trump’s 25% tariff on imported cars is aimed primarily at protecting the American auto manufacturing industry; but it’s also a petty punishment for the Europeans who, in Trump’s words, “don’t take our cars”….
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Sperm donation policies in Europe called into question after cancer gene scandal
A Danish donor, unknowingly carrying a mutation in a gene that increases the risk of cancer, is said to have helped conceive at least 67 children, 10 of whom now have cancer.
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Turkish-Romanian Defense Deal a Model for Europe
Otokar, a Sakarya-based subsidiary of Turkey’s Koc group, announced in April that it had sealed a near-$1bn agreement with Romania’s Automecanica to build more than 1,000 Cobra II 4×4 armored vehicles and undertake engineering,…
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Italian citizenship referendum void after low turnout
A referendum in Italy on easing citizenship rules and enhancing workers’ rights has been declared invalid.
Around 30% of voters participated – well short of the 50% threshold required to make the vote binding – in the poll, which began on Sunday and ran until 15:00 (14:00 BST) on Monday.
The…
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Trump’s border czar blames California governor for LA unrest
Trump administration border czar Tom Homan said Monday that California Gov. Gavin Newsom has “failed that state” and is “late to the game” in addressing protests that culminated with demonstrators clashing with authorities over the weekend, furthering the finger-pointing between state…
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