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French court rules against tighter porn curbs on legal technicality

-- 2021-10-09 09:03:37

A French court on Friday, citing a legal technicality, rejected a claim brought by two children's associations that aimed to tighten access to some of the world's biggest porn websites. Through their...

German police investigating 'Havana syndrome' cases at US Embassy

-- 2021-10-09 09:00:04

Police opened an investigation in August into several cases of so-called Havana syndrome among staff at the US embassy in Berlin, Der Spiegel reported on Friday. The syndrome - a mysterious set of ai...

Russia congratulates Nobel peace prize winner Dmitry Muratov

-- 2021-10-08 16:28:04

The Kremlin on Friday congratulated Dmitry Muratov, an editor and journalist, on winning the Nobel peace prize despite the fact that his Novaya Gazeta newspaper has often criticised the Russian author...

UK eases Covid travel restrictions for fully vaccinated Indians

-- 2021-10-08 10:18:46

The UK has eased travel restrictions for fully vaccinated Indians who have received a UK-approved jab. Starting 11 October, they will not have to self-isolate or take a Covid test when they a...

After Pandora Papers, EU plans new rules against tax avoidance

-- 2021-10-06 20:56:26

The European Commission will present by the end of the year new legislative proposals to tackle tax avoidance and tax evasion, the EU tax commissioner Paolo Gentiloni told the European Parliament on W...

France seeks compromise over global corporate tax deal

-- 2021-10-06 20:35:22

The world is on the brink of a global corporate tax deal but compromise is still needed over the final details, France's finance minister said on Wednesday as countries that have been holding out begi...

Two scientists get Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing tool to build molecules

-- 2021-10-06 16:21:30

German Benjamin List and Scottish-born David MacMillan won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their development of asymmetric organocatalysis, a "new and ingenious tool for molecule building". "Or...

Robots give Greece's postal service speed boost

-- 2021-10-06 10:18:22

There's a new addition to Greece's postal service: a fleet of yellow robots sorting through the mail. Fifty-five small, four-wheeled autonomous mobile robots -- or AMR's -- powered by artificial inte...

BBC may not exist in 10 years for ‘elitist’ attitude, British secretary says

-- 2021-10-05 18:33:18

Describing BBC as an 'elitist' and 'biased' broadcaster, British Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries has said the broadcaster may not exist in 10 years. She also suggested that the BBC needs ‘real...

French Catholic priests abused 216,000 children since 1950

-- 2021-10-05 15:06:48

Some 216,000 children have been victims of abuse by members of the Catholic clergy in France since 1950, the head of a panel investigating abuses by Church members says. Jean-Marc Sauv&eacute...

Germany's next government faces three major economic challenges

-- 2021-10-05 11:49:13

Chancellor Angela Merkel has steered Germany through many crises over the past 16 years, but she has also left behind a mixed legacy and failed to tackle some deep structural problems in Europe's larg...

Pandora papers reveal hidden riches of Putin’s alleged love, inner circle

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-10-04 11:58:58

The secret wealth of Russian president Vladimir Putin's numerous close associates has been revealed in the biggest trove of leaked offshore data in history, Britain's The Guardian reports. They inclu...

Lars Vilks, who drew controversial cartoon of Prophet Muhammad, dies in road accident

-- 2021-10-04 11:45:36

A Swedish cartoonist who sketched the Prophet Muhammad's head on a dog's body has died in a traffic accident, BBC reported citing local media. Lars Vilks was reportedly travelling in a ci...

Small plane crashes into empty building outside Milan, all eight on board die

-- 2021-10-03 20:51:47

A small private plane crashed into an empty building on the outskirts of Milan, northern Italy, on Sunday, killing all eight people on board. The plane, which took off from Milan's Linate city airpor...

Johnson says no more ‘uncontrolled immigration’

-- 2021-10-03 18:32:28

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Sunday he would not return to "uncontrolled immigration" to solve fuel, gas and Christmas food crises, suggesting such strains were part of a period of pos...

Italian vessel rescues 65 from migrant boat fleeing Libya

-- 2021-10-03 10:11:03

An Italian offshore supply vessel on Saturday rescued 65 migrants, including women and children, fleeing Libya to Europe on a crowded, wooden boat. The migrant boat was drifting after its engine stop...

COP26 delegates agree on need to deliver climate finance pledge

-- 2021-10-02 19:30:37

Delegates heading to the COP26 UN climate summit in Glasgow agreed they must deliver on the $100 billion per year pledge to help most vulnerable nations tackle climate change, COP26 president Alok Sha...

Fire at COVID-19 hospital in Romania kills nine people

-- 2021-10-01 16:40:53

Nine people died on Friday when a fire broke out in an intensive care unit at a Romanian hospital treating COVID-19 patients, officials said, the country's third deadly hospital fire in less than a ye...

Navalny poisoning investigator says Russia declares him wanted man

-- 2021-09-30 19:45:39

The editor of a Russian news outlet that angered the Kremlin with its investigations, including into the poisoning of opposition politician Alexei Navalny, said the authorities had declared him a want...

France's ex-president Sarkozy convicted but may avoid jail

-- 2021-09-30 19:13:59

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy was handed a one-year prison sentence by a Paris court on Thursday after being found guilty of illegal campaign financing over his failed 2012 re-election bid....

Russia to host first royal wedding in more than a century

-- 2021-09-30 17:12:01

Russia's former Imperial capital is set to play host to the wedding of a descendant of the Russian royal family in the first such event in more than a century. Grand Duke George Mikhailovich Romanov...

Russia flouting UN sanctions in Africa?

-- 2021-09-30 11:31:24

Russia is delaying the appointment of panels of independent experts to monitor violations of UN sanctions on South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic (CAR)and Mali, dipl...

Lava from Spanish volcano reaches Atlantic Ocean, air quality stable

-- 2021-09-29 22:58:03

A pyramid of steaming black rock emerged from the Atlantic Ocean off Spain's La Palma on Wednesday as lava from the Cumbre Vieja volcano crashed into the sea, sending up plumes of white steam. Despit...

UK risks French anger over post-Brexit fishing rights

-- 2021-09-29 13:18:25

Fresh tensions have surfaced between Britain and France over post-Brexit fishing rights. In the latest round of applications, the UK granted just 12 licences from 47 bids for smaller vessels...

Protester throws egg at French President Emmanuel Macron

-- 2021-09-28 19:59:42

French President Emmanuel Macron was hit with an egg while he was visiting Lyon on Monday to promote French gastronomy. Video footage showed the egg bouncing off the president's shoulder area, withou...

UK puts army on standby as panic buying leaves pumps dry

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-09-28 15:46:00

Britain put the army on standby to deliver fuel from Tuesday after an acute shortage of truckers triggered panic buying that left fuel pumps dry across the land and raised fears that hospitals would b...

British frigate sails through sensitive Taiwan Strait en route to Vietnam

-- 2021-09-27 12:14:56

A British frigate was sailing through the sensitive Taiwan Strait on Monday en route to Vietnam, according to an official tweet from the vessel, in a move likely to anger Beijing amid heightened tensi...

German Social Democrats beat conservatives in vote to choose Merkel's successor

-- 2021-09-27 10:11:38

Germany's Social Democrats narrowly won Sunday's national election, projected results showed, and claimed a "clear mandate" to lead a government for the first time since 2005 and to end 16 years of co...

German conservatives, social democrats tied in vote to decide Merkel successor

-- 2021-09-26 23:05:19

Germany's CDU/CSU conservatives and their Social Democrat rivals were tied in Sunday's national election, an exit poll showed, leaving open which of them will lead the next government as Angela Merk...

Iceland elects Europe's first female-majority parliament

-- 2021-09-26 22:19:32

Iceland has elected a female-majority parliament, a landmark for gender equality in the North Atlantic island nation, in a vote that saw centrist parties make the biggest gains. After all votes were...