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View all search resultsThe EU on Friday slapped Google with a massive 2.95 billion euros (US$3.47 billion) antitrust fine for favoring its own advertising services, drawing a furious rebuke from President Donald Trump and a threat of fresh tariffs against Europe.
14 hours agoUK Prime Minister Keir Starmer overhauled his ministerial team Friday in a bid to reset his embattled government after deputy premier Angela Rayner resigned for underpaying a property tax. ...
17 hours agoIrish writer Graham Linehan, who co-created the popular 1990s sitcom "Father Ted", says he was arrested by five armed officers at London's Heathrow Airport on Monday over social media posts. ...
2 days agoThe motion, brought by Pakistan in response to last month's incident, seeks a report from the UN rights chief on the topic and calls on states to review their laws and plug gaps that may "impede the prevention and prosecution of acts and advocacy of religious hatred".
2 years agoRutte's coalition will stay on as caretaker government until a new administration is formed after the next elections, a process which in the fractured Dutch political landscape usually takes months.
2 years agoIn its annual report, ISTAT said the share of the population aged over 100 had tripled since the beginning of the century and totalled almost 22,000 people as of January this year, most of them women.
2 years agoThe decision to return some 478 objects followed recommendations by a government-appointed commission last year looking into illegal Dutch colonial acquisitions now being displayed in museums in the Netherlands.
2 years agoThe Indonesian Embassy in Paris has advised all Indonesians in France to reach out to the embassy's hotline should they need any assistance amid the unrest sparked by the recent fatal police shooting of a teenager in the Paris suburb of Nanterre.
2 years ago"The Swedish Government fully understands that the Islamophobic acts committed by individuals at demonstrations in Sweden can be offensive to Muslims," the foreign ministry said in a statement.
2 years agoThe new minister Kim Yung-ho is a conservative scholar and outspoken critic human rights abuses in North Korea, which Yoon has sought to spotlight amid rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
2 years agoThe king was speaking at a ceremony marking the 160th anniversary of the legal abolition of slavery in the Netherlands, including its former colonies in the Caribbean.
2 years agoA total of 486 people had been arrested across France as of 3:00 am (0100 GMT) Sunday, the interior ministry said, though the level of violence appeared to have declined since rioting first broke out over the death of Nahel M. in the Paris suburb of Nanterre on Tuesday.
2 years agoForty thousand police officers were deployed across France - nearly four times the numbers mobilised on Wednesday - but there were few signs that government appeals to de-escalate the violence would quell the widespread anger.
2 years agoUnder a heavy police presence, Salwan Momika, a 37-year-old who fled to Sweden several years ago, on Wednesday stomped on the Qur'an before setting several pages alight in front of Stockholm's largest mosque.
2 years agoThe M72 could potentially become the first new vaccine to help prevent pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) in more than 100 years if it is proven effective.
2 years agoBiden offered a cautious assessment of unfolding events in an attempt to avoid inflaming tensions with nuclear-armed Russia while he offered firm Western support for Ukraine in its bid to turn back Russian invaders.
2 years ago"It would be absolutely dangerous for Europe if the biggest country of the world with the largest arsenal of nuclear weapons was to be shattered," he told reporters as he arrived for a meeting with his EU counterparts in Luxembourg.
2 years agoChina has emerged as Russia's most important ally since Moscow invaded Ukraine in February 2022, leaving it internationally isolated.
2 years agoThe agreement halted an extraordinary crisis -- a private army led by Putin's former close ally Yevgeny Prigozhin trying to storm Moscow -- but analysts said Wagner's revolt had exposed Putin's rule as more fragile than previously thought.
2 years ago"For the Vitamin C kind of girls, you'll fulfil all of your nutrient needs with these orange pants," the 25-year-old told the sales session.
2 years agoRussian President Vladimir Putin vowed to crush what he called an armed mutiny after rebellious mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin said on Saturday he had taken control of a southern city as part of an attempt to oust the military leadership.
2 years agoRussian mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin said on Saturday his Wagner fighters had crossed the border into Russia from Ukraine and were prepared to go "all the way" against Moscow's military, hours after the Kremlin accused him of armed mutiny.
2 years agoSeeking to avoid the fiasco of finalizing negotiations during next year’s elections in Indonesia, the European Union wants to conclude trade negotiations by the end of this year, while its more controversial deforestation policy, which could hammer Indonesia’s palm oil industry, continues to cast a heavy pall in Jakarta.
2 years agoThe "State and Slavery" study, which examines the role of the Dutch government and related institutions in colonial slavery, and the after-effects, was presented to Dutch parliament on Thursday.
2 years agoSaboteurs target a nation leading the world in clean energy. They hack into vulnerable wind and solar power systems. They knock out digitalized energy grids. They wreak havoc.
2 years agoThe report found that 55 percent of TikTok and Snapchat users and 52 percent of Instagram users get their news from "personalities" -- compared to 33-42 percent who get it from mainstream media and journalists on those platforms, which are most popular among the young.
2 years agoBerlusconi, Italy's longest-serving premier who counted Russian President Vladimir Putin as a friend and gained notoriety for his "bunga bunga" sex parties, had suffered from leukaemia and recently developed a lung infection.
2 years agoJohnson quit his 22-year political career late on Friday in protest against an investigation by lawmakers into his conduct as prime minister during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, when lockdown-breaking parties were held in Downing Street.
2 years agoThe Jakarta Post sat down with Slovenian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon during her first visit to Indonesia last month.
2 years ago"The world once again finds itself on the brink of a nuclear disaster, because the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant lost its source of cooling. And this danger is now growing rapidly," Ukrainian presidential aide Mykhaylo Podolyak said.
2 years agoDefence Minister Prabowo Subianto pitched the idea at the Shangri-La Dialogue defence summit in Singapore where he was a speaker.
2 years agoUkrainian foreign ministry spokesperson Oleg Nikolenko dismissed the plan, reiterating Kyiv's position that Russia should withdraw its troops from Ukraine.
2 years agoHe noted that it is not possible to add members in the middle of a war, and that the way forward was to continue aiding and arming Ukraine for both short- and long-term security.
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