Speaking about Palestine is speaking about resistance in the heart of horror. That is how Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, summed it up at an emergency…
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16 and 17-year-olds to be able to vote in next general election as government says it will lower voting age in UK
BBC Bitesize’s three top tips for making big decisionspublished at 16:19 British Summer Time
Image source, Getty ImagesWhen 16 and 17-year-olds – as well as those a lot older – arrive at the ballot box at the next general election,…
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This Is the Biggest Mistake American Tourists Make When Traveling to Europe
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European cities often have narrow streets, cobblestones, limited elevators, and small doorways that make large suitcases difficult to manage.
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Some people recommend traveling light to avoid judgment and logistical headaches.
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Others,…
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Georgian leader scoffs at EU threat to visa-free travel – POLITICO
“Georgia’s democratic backsliding will come at [a] cost,” the EU’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas said Tuesday.
Kobakhidze, however, told the media that visa-free travel to Europe is not “existential” for his country, and once again defended the foreign agents law, claiming it was…
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Eswatini: Outrage over arrival of foreign US deportees in tiny African nation
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Across Africa, and in the tiny nation of Eswatini, fury has erupted over the arrival of foreign deportees from the United States, after its government confirmed that…
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Are EU citizens on board with higher defence spending?
European leaders seem to be failing to get the message across, as EU citizens rank defence only seventh out of 10 investment priorities.
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Poroshenko assesses statements of Svyrydenko and Pronin regarding grounds for imposing sanctions against him as evidence of their falsifications
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MP, leader of the European Solidarity party, Petro Poroshenko, believes that the statement by Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko that the sanctions were imposed on the…
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Zelenskyy reshuffles government as pressure grows from Putin and Trump – POLITICO
Old guard
New Prime Minister Svyrydenko was one of the main drivers of the April 30 Ukraine-U.S. minerals deal, carefully crafting the final agreement out of the tough conditions Washington wanted to impose on Kyiv. She is also described by Andy Hunder, president of the American Chamber of…
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India Unfazed by Trump Threat of Secondary Sanctions on Russian Oil Buyers
India is not concerned about President Trump’s threat to crack down on Russia’s oil exports and slap secondary sanctions or tariffs on buyers of Russian crude if no peace deal on Ukraine is reached in 50 days.
“I’m not worried…
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Bukele’s Crackdown in El Salvador Forces Human Rights Groups to Flee
In early June, a career journalist in El Salvador received a call from a government source. Their name was on a list of more than a dozen individuals the administration of President Nayib Bukele planned to have arrested. “I left the country…
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