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China, Eritrea, Libya, North Korea, Russia, and South Sudan are to be stigmatised as the world's worst human-rights abusers under new EU sanctions.

A Szlovák Hidrometeorológiai Intézet (SHMÚ) előrejelzése szerint pénteken túlnyomóan borús lesz az ég, az 1000 méter tszf.m. feletti területeken havazás is előfordulhat.

Turkey lashed out over comments by US secretary of state Antony Blinken indicating a sterner stance by Washington over Turkish gas-drilling activities in the eastern Mediterranean, Ekathimerini writes. "We have called out actions, including by Turkey, that violate international law or commitments as a Nato ally and that includes provocative actions against Greece," Blinken said earlier. "The US should be neutral in the eastern Mediterranean," Turkish vice-president Fuat Oktay responded.

Three Baltic states have written to the European Commission asking for a new system of COVID-19 vaccine distributions based on need, which they say will improve the efficiency of the EU's vaccination programme. 

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Im Kampf gegen terroristische Banden hat Nigerias Präsident Muhammadu Buhari einen Schiessbefehl auf alle illegalen Träger von Kalaschnikow-Sturmgewehren erteilt.

The aviation industry is divided on whether an expected EU mandate on green jet fuel should include all flights departing from the bloc or be restricted to inter-EU flights, with the fault line running largely between budget airlines and legacy carriers.

Angesichts der dramatischen Zunahme von illegalen Grenzübertritten aus Mexiko hat die US-Regierung Migranten aufgefordert, sich derzeit nicht auf den Weg in Richtung USA zu machen.

Seit den 1980er Jahren kommen weltweit immer mehr Zwillinge zur Welt. Das berichten Forschende in der Fachzeitschrift «Reproduction Medicine». In der Schweiz verdoppelte sich die Zwillingsrate demnach in den letzten vierzig Jahren, weltweit stieg sie um ein Drittel.

Denmark and Norway on Thursday temporarily suspended the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine, after reports of the formation of blood clots in 22 people among the three million who had received the shot, Reuters reported. The move comes after Austria stopped using a batch of AstraZeneca while examining a death from coagulation disorders. Estonia, Lithuania, Luxembourg and Latvia have also stopped providing this vaccines while investigations continue.

MEPs pledged that the parliament will request an expedited procedure at the European Court of Justice, to speed up deliberations, and urged the EU Commission not to wait for the ruling and take action.

European markets got a boost Thursday after the European Central Bank promised to accelerate its pandemic-related asset-purchase programme. "The governing council expects purchases under the [programme] ... over the next quarter to be conducted at a significantly higher pace than during the first months of this year," the bank said. Interest payments on benchmark 10-year German bonds dropped 0.03 percent, while European stock markets rose by 0.4 to 1.8 percent.

"We need to ... change the mindset and give up on trying to score points on disputes of the past and focus ourselves on doing what we can in making the most out of the agreements we made," the EU's envoy to London, Joao Vale de Almeida, said Thursday, Reuters reports, amid multiple rows on his diplomatic status, vaccine exports, and Northern Ireland customs. "We need ... trust," he said.

The self-confessed murderer of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in 2017 told a Maltese courtroom Wednesday he and accomplices were paid €150,000 by a Maltese oligarch, with a downpayment of €30,000 in a brown leather bag of €50 notes. The car-bomb was "imported", made of stainless steel, with a SIM card that detonated when sent a specific SMS. Alleged political links to the case are being investigated in a separate enquiry.

Toutes les liaisons entre les gares de Lausanne et de La Conversion sont supprimées toute la journée, suite à un déraillement de train de chantier. On ne dénombre aucun blessé.

Leftwing MEPs tend to table amendments that seek to save jobs should arms producers have to stop exports to war zones, while rightwing counterparts try to weaken any hardline restrictions.

Green groups warned that if heavy industry continues to receive free allowances even after a carbon border levy is in place, this would essentially be a double subsidy for those sectors. "The European Commission must correct this," the WWF warned.

Hong Kong democracy activists have asked the EU not to ratify its planned new investment deal with China, at a time when Beijing is tearing up international obligations to the people of Hong Kong, The Guardian writes. The activists have written to EU Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, asking the EU to refuse to sign the treaty until China's national security laws are repealed.

Wer Kurzarbeit anmelden will und sich zu spät beim Amt gemeldet hat, muss selber zahlen. Das Parlament kann den Fehler aber Mitte März beheben. Für die Arbeitgeber steht viel auf dem Spiel.

It's not just that Ireland is the EU's tax haven. Irish statistics have little in common with the actual picture of the economy – artificial transactions account for 20 percent of GDP.