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France and the United Kingdom sign an agreement to discourage the passage of refugees by boat | Abroad

France and the United Kingdom sign an agreement to discourage the passage of refugees by boat |  Abroad

France and the United Kingdom reached new agreements on Monday to stem the flow of refugees across the English Channel. Countries are focusing on, among other things, control centers and more security personnel. The agreement stipulates, among other things, that the French will receive 72.2 million euros from the British this year and next year. With this money, France wants …

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Natasa Pirc Musar, 54, becomes Slovenia’s first female president

Natasa Pirc Musar, 54, becomes Slovenia's first female president

APE ONS News•yesterday, 10:12 p.m. Slovenia will have a female head of state for the first time. In the second round of presidential elections, lawyer Natasa Pirc Musar managed to beat her rival with 54% of the vote, according to preliminary election results. Liberal Musar, who was previously a TV presenter and a lawyer, clashed with right-wing Anze Logar. He …

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Two hundred thousand demonstrators in Madrid for better health | Abroad

Two hundred thousand demonstrators in Madrid for better health |  Abroad

Hundreds of thousands of people demonstrate in Madrid on Sunday against the health plans of outgoing regional president Isabel Díaz Ayuso. Of all the regional presidents, she invests the least in health care, while Madrid is the richest region in the country. Some 200,000 people are taking part in the march, according to government sources in the Spanish capital. The …

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“You Can’t Stop Us”

"You Can't Stop Us"

PA ONS News•yesterday, 5:06 p.m. Helen Eker climate and energy editor-in-chief Helen Eker climate and energy editor-in-chief Several thousand people from different countries and continents demonstrated at the climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. They shouted slogans such as “We are not defeated”, “You cannot stop us” and “No climate justice without human rights”. The Sharm-el-Sheikh summit will last two …

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Squeeze the rain from the clouds, they experience it in Abu Dhabi

Squeeze the rain from the clouds, they experience it in Abu Dhabi

LIT ONS News•yesterday, 7:00 p.m. Attempts to make it rain are as old as mankind. With rain dances, asking the gods for help or offerings. In Abu Dhabi, they have another method to impose the rain: cloud seeding or cloud modification. Chemicals or salt particles are projected into a cloud. In the fight against drought and climate change, they have …

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US climate envoy: Some countries don’t want 1.5 degrees in climate summit final statement

US climate envoy: Some countries don't want 1.5 degrees in climate summit final statement

According to US envoy Kerry, “a small number of countries” objected to explicitly mentioning the 1.5 degree limit in the closing text. However, the climate envoy said he was confident agreements reached previously would remain in place. Critical limit At the climate summit in Paris in 2015, countries agreed to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees, and preferably …

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US midterms: coin toss decides Kentucky election results | Abroad

US midterms: coin toss decides Kentucky election results |  Abroad

Intermediate scoreIn two local elections in the US state of Kentucky in which the candidates received the same number of votes, the winner was announced by a toss of a coin. Under Kentucky law, it’s a legal method, reports the BBC. Local elections took place during the American midterms. In Breckinridge County, a small district southwest of the city of …

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CDA member René van der Linden was the Kremlin’s pawn for years

CDA member René van der Linden was the Kremlin's pawn for years

PA ONS News•yesterday, 8:06 p.m.•Amended yesterday, 9:31 p.m. Former Senate President René van der Linden (CDA) was for many years a representative of Kremlin interests, writes the NRC. He was deployed by Russia to influence Western opinion and Western politicians, the newspaper concludes based on documents and emails. At Russia’s expense, Van der Linden, who served as state secretary for …

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American returns looted antiques he inherited from his German-Dutch grandmother | Abroad

American returns looted antiques he inherited from his German-Dutch grandmother |  Abroad

An American has returned 19 antiquities to the four countries from which they came. John Gomperts had inherited the old coins – worth around 90,000 euros – from his German-Dutch grandmother, but had probably been stolen. John Gomperts, who lives in Washington, realized after reading an article in the British newspaper The Guardian that the ancient artifacts – including two …

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