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Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has formed what is now his second ruling coalition, this time between his conservative ÖVP party and the Greens, replacing the interim government of experts. Although the new government is set to make Austria a climate pioneer, there are question marks as to how long the new alliance is likely to last. EURACTIV Germany reports.

A Szlovák Hidrometeorológiai Intézet (SHMÚ) előrejelzése szerint szerdán túlnyomóan derűs lesz felettünk az ég, főként nyugaton és északon azonban alacsony hőmérsékletre kell számítani.

Beim Lift- und Rolltreppenhersteller Schindler wird es in den kommenden zwei Jahren zu einer Reihe von grossvolumigen ausserbörslichen Aktien-Transaktionen kommen.

US consumers, companies and workers will pay the biggest price for proposed 100% tariffs on French Champagne and other sparkling wines, cheese, porcelain, enamel cookware and handbags, witnesses told the US government on Tuesday (7 January).

Le PS, les Verts et le GSsA lancent ce mercredi le référendum contre l’achat de nouveaux jets. Ils étaient parvenus à couler le Gripen en 2014. La situation de départ est cette fois-ci différente.

La célèbre interprète de « Press », Cardi B, a fait une annonce étonnante à travers une publication sur son compte Twitter. La jeune rappeuse souhaite obtenir la nationalité nigériane. Mais pour quelles raisons ? La rappeuse américaine de 28 ans a annoncé, le 3 janvier sur son compte Twitter, sa volonté de devenir citoyenne […]

L’article Musique : Davido ou Trump, qui a poussé Cardi B à vouloir obtenir la nationalité nigériane est apparu en premier sur Afrik.com.

The European Parliament is preparing to vote on a resolution Wednesday accusing the UK of creating "anxiety" among the 3.3m EU citizens who live in the UK ahead of Brexit at the end of the month, British newspaper The Guardian reports. The draft text says EU residents may be at "risk of discrimination" by British employers and that not enough help was offered to "older and vulnerable" EU citizens there.

Iran fired two waves of missile attacks on two different US military air bases in Iraq in retaliation against the assassination of Iranian top general Qassem Suleimani. So far, it seems that there were no casualties. Nevertheless, Iranian state TV claimed 80 people died in the attacks. Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said it was an act of self defence within the boundaries of international law.

Poland's left-wing parties on Tuesday (7 January) approved Robert Biedron, an openly gay politician, as their candidate in the May presidential election.

Lezuhant Iránban szerda reggel egy Boeing 737-es típusú ukrán utasszállító repülőgép, 180 utassal és a személyzettel a fedélzetén – adta hírül az MTI a Farsz iráni hírügynökség nyomán.

Spain's parliament on Tuesday (7 January) narrowly confirmed Socialist leader Pedro Sánchez as premier for another term, paving the way for the country's first-ever coalition government since its return to democracy in the 1970s.

As EU policymakers worry about global tensions threatening raw material imports, one option could be getting more from their own backyard.

The EU's foreign policy chief - along with French, German, Italian and British foreign ministers - have rejected Turkey's troop deployment in Libya.

Legal action related to climate change is set to grow considerably in the next few years - especially after a largely-overlooked ruling over Christmas by a Dutch court forced the government to reduce its emission by 25 percent by 2020.

A nation, Reinhold Niebuhr wrote, is not capable of altruism. Even less so, if such a group has formed on the basis of strong emotions and casts itself as the "saviour of the nation".

I am a strong Atlanticist, but how can the US expect its allies to follow when it gives them no idea where they are being led?

An Irish Supreme Court judge will participate in a protest on Saturday in Warsaw in support of Polish colleagues who say their independence is being systematically eroded by the country's nationalist government, the Irish Times reported. Justice John MacMenamin will represent the Association of Judges of Ireland (AJI). Dutch judges also plan to participate. In 2018 an Irish judge raised concerns over Polish judicial independence in an extradition case.

Iran's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, attended the government's national security council to tell them how Iran should retaliate for the killing of general Qassem Suleimani, the New York Times reports. Khamenei said the reprisal should be a direct and proportional attack on American interests, carried out openly by Iranian forces. So far, Iran has mostly used proxy groups such as Lebanon's Hezbollah.