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EU summit discusses EU’s role in the world

EU

EU leaders gathered in Brussels to talk over the EU’s role in the world. Their focus was on Ukraine and on the situation in the Middle East, following the fall of Bashar Al-Assad’s regime. They also exchanged on the situation in Moldova and Georgia, as well as on the latest progress on enlargement. EU summit discusses EU’s role in the world

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Indonesians mark two decades since Boxing Day tsunami – The Irish News

World News

Two decades after a catastrophic tsunami destroyed her village, Tria Asnani still cries when she recalls how she lost her mother while trying to escape the giant waves.Now a school teacher, she was only 17 at the time. Her father, a fisherman, never returned home from sea. She does not know how she survived.“I cannot swim. I could only rely on dhikr (Islamic prayer),” she said.On December 26 2004, a powerful 9.1-magnitude earthquake off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra triggered a tsunami which killed around 230,000 people across a dozen countries, reaching as far as East Africa.Visitors…

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How quitting smoking give birth to a 3,525-strong porcelain doll collection

World News

An elderly couple have transformed part of their home into a mini museum as they open their pride and joy — Ireland’s largest private porcelain doll collection — to the public. Mary and Billy O’Keeffe, who live in Schull, never imagined their now 3,525-strong display would multiply to the extent that it has. Starting a doll collection had never been part of their plans until a quirk of fate changed everything. Ireland’s largest private porcelain doll collection It all began almost 13 years ago when Mary decided her husband was in dire need of a distraction, a culture shock to…

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Verdicts due for eight people on trial for role in beheading of teacher in France – Charlie Hebdo

France

Paty was killed near Paris on October 16, 2020, days after showing his class cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad during a debate on free expression. The assailant, an 18-year-old Russian of Chechen origin, was shot to death by police.

The French Police had to pander to public opinion, and echoes of the French revolution still ring through Court in Paris. In a case of such global media exposure, the French had to deliver prosecutions. The killer was already dead, so they had to find some other perpetrators. 

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for Gisèle Pelicot, an “ordeal” turned into a “fight”.

France

Gisèle Pelicot, Avignon, December 19, 2024. MANON CRUZ/REUTERS These are just four moments in one woman’s life. Four moments in just four years. The shock of the first day, the long, lonely journey, the decision to face the worst publicly, and the final verdict, after which Gisèle Pelicot’s soothed, confident voice spoke publicly outside the courtroom. Four moments that marked the journey of a woman who has now become a feminist hero around the world. November 2, 2020: Shock That morning, Gisèle Pelicot and her husband were summoned to the police station in Carpentras, southern France. Two months earlier, Dominique…

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Concern in the PP over the approach to Junts: “We cannot afford to go any further” | Spain

Spain

“What did he say? What did he say? [¿Qué ha dicho?]”, PP deputy Guillermo Mariscal asked this Thursday insistently to the journalists who were still surrounding the Junts spokesperson, Miriam Nogueras, just when she had finished speaking in the Congress hallway. “That they are going to defend investments in Tarragona,” they responded, because that was the only thing Nogueras had said, but from which it was clear that Junts was going to vote that same morning alongside the PP to knock down the tax on large energy companies. “That’s it!”, celebrated Mariscal, the architect of that amendment negotiated with Carles…

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