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Europe

Canada vows ‘Trump tax’ on US in response to tariffs: minister

Americans will be hit by a “Trump tariffs tax” if the US president-elect increases customs duties on Canadian products, the Canadian foreign minister said Friday, pledging a hard-hitting response in any trade war.

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UK launches probe into dominance of Google search

Britain’s competition watchdog yesterday launched an investigation into Google’s dominant position in the search engine market and its impacts on consumers and businesses.

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Flights cancelled as Belgium hit by national strike

Belgium was hit by a national strike yesterday, with air and rail traffic severely affected as workers protested against pension reform plans.

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Global warming: Last two yrs crossed 1.5C limit

The last two years exceeded on average a critical warming limit for the first time as global temperatures soar “beyond what modern humans have ever experienced”, Europe’s climate monitor said yesterday.

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Airlines face ‘high risk’ flying over Russia

The downing of an Azerbaijan Airlines airplane shows that flying over Russia poses a “high risk” to civilian flights amid the war in Ukraine, the European Union Aviation Safety Agency said yesterday.

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2 dead, 20 injured in snow and ice storm in northern France

The icy weather first hit Wednesday. The statement said rescue services have been called out to deal with traffic accidents, people falling in the snow and ice, flooding and other emergencies

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Trudeau rejects Trump threat to annex Canada

There is not a “snowball’s chance in hell” that Canada will merge with the United States, outgoing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday, while his foreign minister added the country will “never back down” from threats by Donald Trump.

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Ukraine strikes Russian air force oil depot

Ukraine launched an overnight strike deep inside Russia that set fire to an oil depot in the city of Engels that serves an air base for Russian nuclear bomber planes, the Ukrainian military said yesterday.

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Russia doubles migrant expulsions in 2024

Russia said yesterday it had expelled more than 80,000 migrants in 2024, nearly twice as many as in 2023, as the country toughens migration policies after last year’s Crocus City Hall terror attack.

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Kursk region: Russian troops under pressure

Russia said yesterday that Ukraine had launched a counter-attack in the Kursk region, an area of western Russia from which Russian troops have been trying to eject Ukrainian forces for the past five months.

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Gunmen ambush Pak aid convoy

Gunmen ambushed a Pakistan convoy travelling to bring aid to a region besieged by sectarian fighting yesterday, local government said, wounding several officials despite a ceasefire announced three days ago.

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Russia fires drone barrage at Ukraine

Russia launched a barrage of drones in an overnight attack on Ukraine, killing two civilians and injuring four others in the Kyiv region, the military and regional officials said yesterday.

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UK’s biggest dinosaur footprint site uncovered

British researchers have unearthed some 200 dinosaur footprints dating back 166 million years in a find believed to be biggest in the UK.

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7 out of 10 UK doctors suffer from ‘compassion fatigue’: poll

Seven out of 10 UK family doctors are worn out and suffering from “compassion fatigue”, finding it hard to empathise with their patients, a poll published Thursday said.

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Five dead in Germany from New Year fireworks accidents

Five people died across Germany and a police officer was seriously injured from accidents linked to the powerful fireworks Germans traditionally set off to celebrate the new year, police said in a preliminary count.

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20 migrants missing off Italy’s Lampedusa after shipwreck

Twenty migrants were missing Tuesday off the coast of Italy’s Lampedusa in a shipwreck in which seven people, including an eight-year-old Syrian child, were rescued, news media reported.

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Russia will ‘move forward’ in 2025: Putin

President Vladimir Putin told Russians in a New Year address that the country would move forward with confidence in 2025.

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Gareth Southgate, Sadiq Khan, Keely Hodgkinson named in Britain's New Year honours

Former England soccer boss Gareth Southgate, London Mayor Sadiq Khan and Paris Olympics gold medallist Keely Hodgkinson were among the hundreds named in King Charles's New Year honours list published on Monday

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