This year has seen Poland join Hungary as the bête noire of Brussels. The country has been at war with the EU over a range of issues, including a dispute over LGBTQ rights and arguments over climate change, border policies, the independence of judges, and most importantly, the primacy of …
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A new section of the high-speed railway connecting Beijing and Hong Kong opened on Thursday, extending China’s overall high-speed rail network the length of the equator, at around 40,000 kilometers. The new railway linking Anqing in East China’s Anhui Province and Jiujiang in East China’s Jiangxi Province has a designed …
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Tourists at the Egyptian beach resort city of Hurghada were caught off guard by a rare snowstorm which pelted beachgoers with egg-sized hail stones at the start of the new year. Videos showed people rushing to the safety of their hotels as massive hail stones fell from the sky on …
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The China National Space Administration (CNSA) has published new photos from its Tianwen 1 Mars project, including two spectacular selfies taken by the mission’s orbiter circling the planet. The artificial satellite was able to take a picture of itself by releasing a special camera into space on a one-way journey. …
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Children aged six and above will now be required to wear face masks indoors as France lowers the age requirement by five years in an effort to stop the spread of Covid-19’s omicron variant. France announced on Saturday that children aged six and above would have to wear masks in …
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Police raided and shut down an illegal rave in the Netherlands on New Year’s Day, with the local mayor calling it inappropriate to hold such an event as the rest of the country follows strict Covid-19 restrictions. Officers dressed in riot gear broke up the rave at an abandoned factory …
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Legendary fighter Vitali Klitschko has joined Ukraine’s military reservists, with the mayor of Kiev claiming the country is at war and reportedly making a remark about Vladimir Putin. Ukrainian hero Klitschko, who was a boxing champion in three decades before his final title defense in 2012, has started participating in …
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Between 6 and 7 million gallons of raw sewage erupted into the Dominguez Channel near Los Angeles harbor, the city of Long Beach revealed on Friday, forcing authorities to close down a seven-mile stretch of beaches indefinitely. The failure of a 48-inch sewer main line in the city of Carson, …
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Israel dropped several bombs on targets in Gaza during the middle of the night – the explosions from which could be seen lighting up the sky from miles away. The IDF claimed that the bobmardment was in retaliation to the “terrorist rocket-fire towards Israel” earlier in the day. Purported videos …
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A total of 847 cars were set ablaze in France in the early hours of the first day of the new year, the Interior Ministry said, with hundreds of people detained over the destruction. The mass burning of parked vehicles has become an infamous and much lamented ‘tradition’ in France, …
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