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Sand, gravel or potash products: Such raw materials are the basis for industrial production. The economic crisis is causing the need for this to fall sharply. This means that local production is at a historic low. Industry’s demand for raw materials is falling sharply

Support for Verona Murphy is a significant step towards government deal The support of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael for Ms Murphy’s candidacy is seen as a significant step towards a deal being reached to form a government.Following the first sitting of the 34th Dáil, it was adjourned for the Christmas break, which was initially set to end on January 15. This has been pushed back to January 22, indicating that the government leaders are confident a deal will be in place at that stage.One senior Fine Gael source expressed doubt over this timeline, saying it would be “optimistic” to…

Israel launched “aggressive raids” targeting Houthi military targets, including ports, power plants, and oil factories, in Sanaa, the Yemeni capital, and the strategic port city of Hodeidah on Thursday, after the Israeli military said it intercepted a Houthi missile. Israel strikes Yemen's capital, port city after Houthi attacks

Nam (name changed) had to wait 12 years before he could return from Europe to his parents in Vietnam. He couldn’t return earlier because he had lived illegally in Germany and lacked the necessary papers to travel freely.    As a young man in search of a better life, he had decided to try his luck in Europe in 2012. The then 20-year-old and his family borrowed money to pay human traffickers. Nam was smuggled into Germany via Russia and lived the life of a “naked person,” a term used in Vietnamese chat groups on Facebook like Luật Pháp Đức (German law)…

The speleologist outside the cave at three in the morning after three days of travel in the tunnels. Friends: “We want you to come back and explore with us one day.” The volunteers: “Enough controversy about costs” Ottavia Piana, tears with her boyfriend and hugs to the rescuers: “I knew you would save me” https://milano.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/19/news/ottavia_piana_speleologa_bloccata_racconto-423895315/?rss

Despite an agenda packed with hot-button topics, the summit of EU leaders is not expected to yield any breakthrough. The 27 leaders of the European Union are on Thursday meeting in Brussels for a one-day summit with a remarkably busy agenda that will touch upon Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Syria’s transition of power, continued protests in Georgia, new ways to reinvent migration policy and the survival guide for the upcoming Donald Trump administration. It marks the first summit chaired by António Costa since he assumed the presidency of the European Council on 1 December as part of the bloc’s new…

Toadstool with teeth and ghostly palm among plant and fungus finds of 2024 Scientists race to discover new species before destruction of natural world drives them to extinctionFrom a toadstool with teeth to a vine smelling of marzipan and a flower that has cheated its way out of having to photosynthesise, a weird and wonderful host of new plant and fungus species have been discovered in 2024.Other plants given scientific names for the first time include beautiful new orchids, a ghostly palm and a hairy plant that appears to have stolen a gene from an unrelated family. The species are…

South Korea’s acting leader said on Thursday he would veto a spate of contentious bills sponsored by the main opposition party, deepening political strife in the wake of parliament’s impeachment of president Yoon Suk Yeol. The ruling and opposition parties have been bickering over how much authority prime minister Han Duck-soo, the country’s second-in-command, has assumed since the opposition-controlled National Assembly last Saturday voted to suspend Mr Yoon’s presidential powers over his short-lived December martial law. The Constitutional Court is to determine whether to formally dismiss the conservative Mr Yoon as president or reinstate him. Law enforcement authorities are also…

  South Korea’s acting leader said on Thursday he would veto a spate of contentious bills sponsored by the main opposition party, deepening political strife in the wake of parliament’s impeachment of president Yoon Suk Yeol. The ruling and opposition parties have been bickering over how much authority prime minister Han Duck-soo, the country’s second-in-command, has assumed since the opposition-controlled National Assembly last Saturday voted to suspend Mr Yoon’s presidential powers over his short-lived December martial law. The Constitutional Court is to determine whether to formally dismiss the conservative Mr Yoon as president or reinstate him. Law enforcement authorities are…

New heart attack Thursday for the Government. The majority of the investiture arrives at the last plenary session of the year with several cracks whose depth will be tested in a decisive vote in the afternoon in Congress. Both Junts and Podemos, for different reasons but both with the same idea that they do not consider themselves part of the majority of the Government and negotiate point by point, threaten to force several parliamentary defeats of the Executive that would reinforce the image of weakness, although in no case They would be definitive. The Government trusts above all that Junts…