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Denmark has joined several other European countries in banning garments that cover the face, including Islamic veils such as the niqab and burqa, in a move condemned by human rights campaigners as “neither necessary nor proportionate”.
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World’s richest man asks humanity to prepare for life in space
Millions of people will leave Earth for lunar colonies within decades, according to Jeff Bezos, the Amazon boss, who is investing $1 billion a year in space technology.
Read More »Soros to sponsor the anti-Brexit
The campaign for a second Brexit referendum will begin in the next few days, according to George Soros, the billionaire campaigning to keep Britain in the EU.
Read More »Austria’s chancellor: flow of illegal immigrants to EU should be prevented in Africa
Austria’s chancellor says European border guards should be allowed to go to north Africa to prevent migrants from setting off across the Mediterranean Sea in rickety boats.
Read More »The top leaders of North and South Korea agreed to hold regular meetings
The agreement between the two Koreas’ leaders to reinstate high-level talks will accelerate the once-stalled process of implementing their earlier promise to spur cross-border exchanges and cooperation, experts said Sunday.
Read More »The US warned the Assad regime it would respond to offensive to capture South Syria
The Trump administration delivered an unmistakable military warning to Moscow and the Assad regime on Saturday, May 26, to hold off from their big offensive to capture the southeastern Daraa region.
Read More »France to allocate 50 million euro to Syrian nongovernmental organizations
ST. PETERSBURG (Sputnik) – French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday after talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin that Paris recognizes Russia’s ‘Role of Strong Leader’ in International Relations, including in the Middle East.
Read More »Clinton would be happy to run Facebook
On Friday, Clinton indicated that a dream job of hers, at least in the private sector, would be to run a high-profile company: Facebook.
Read More »Saudi Arabia to cut ties with some German firms
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has ordered that no more government contracts be awarded to German companies, in a sign of continued irritation over Berlin’s foreign policy in the Middle East, German magazine Der Spiegel reported on Friday.
Read More »Elon Musk to publish “Pravda”
Die Reaktionen kamen schnell und zogen – wenig überraschend – genauso schnell Parallelen zu Donald Trump. Andrew J. Hawkins, Redakteur des Technikportals The Verge, twitterte etwa, Elon Musk vollziehe weiter seine Transformation zu einer “media-baiting Trump figure”, einen Medien-Troll vom Schlage des amtierenden US-Präsidenten.
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