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France’s largest internet operator Orange was, on Tuesday, December 10, slapped with a €50 million ($53 million) fine for sending unsolicited adverts resembling emails to customers. Orange is the successor to France’s monopoly telephone operator and remains the leading telecommunications firm, with a popular email service. “Internet access and email service provider Orange used its email service to introduce advertisements” that resembled emails in customers’ message feeds, said Louis Dutheillet de Lamothe, deputy head of France’s privacy watchdog CNIL. Advertisers in France are required to obtain permission before sending material to a person’s email address, and the CNIL considered Orange’s…

An Argentine court, on Tuesday, December 10, dismissed rape charges against two French international rugby players accused of assaulting a woman after a match in the country in July. A judge in Mendoza dismissed the case on the advice of the prosecution, which called for the charges to be dropped over inconsistencies in the woman’s version of events.

The clash between the Community and the Madrid City Council (PP) with the Government of Spain (PSOE and Sumar) will experience a rare truce this Wednesday: the regional executive will give the green light to sign with the Ministry of Universities the María Goyri Program, which will finance 1,091 teaching positions thanks to an investment shared by the State (169.8 million, 60%) and Madrid (112.3).

The general director of the NGO demands that school cafeterias be free “to fight against childhood inequality” At the beginning of this school year, the NGO Educo staged a protest in front of several schools with empty fridges to demand that all children have free access to the school canteen. Its general director, Pilar Orenes, demands that the next General State Budget include a budget of 468 million euros to reinforce scholarships as a previous step towards achieving universality. Pilar Orenes (Educo): “One million minors in poverty in Spain are left without a scholarship for school meals”

Joe Biden warns of the consequences of Donald Trump’s planned tariffs on imports from Mexico, Canada and China. He described the policy as a “catastrophe” for the US economy and spoke of a “big mistake”.

Kimberly Guilfoyle doesn’t have any previous diplomatic experience: Nevertheless, Donald Trump wants to send his son’s (possibly still-) fiancée to Athens as ambassador.

A London bus had a lucky miss when a gas explosion destroyed a house just as it approached this afternoon. The blast blew off the roof and sent glass and bricks flying across Ley Street in Ilford, east London, as a bus and cars were driving down. In footage posted on the Instagram page ‘ig1ig3’, one pedestrian was seen running to avoid the spray of debris from shattered windows. Firefighters rescued two people from a first floor window before they were taken to hospital. Five others escaped neighbouring properties. The entire ground floor, first floor and loft conversion of the…

  The Defense Ministry in Taiwan on Wednesday said that it had detected 53 Chinese aircraft and 19 ships near the island over a 24-hour period. The latest movement of Chinese aircraft and vessels around the island comes as Beijing conducts its largest military drills in years. Chinese planes and vessels ‘operating around Taiwan’ “53 PLA aircraft, 11 PLAN vessels and 8 official ships operating around Taiwan were detected up until 6 a.m. (UTC+8) today,” Taiwan’s defense ministry said in a post on social media platform X.  “23 of the aircraft crossed the median line and entered Taiwan’s northern, southwestern and…

Police are searching South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s office, according to reports.

  Vandals set fire to a car and sprayed graffiti with anti-Israel slogans in a Sydney suburb that is home to Australia’s largest Jewish community. Officials condemned Wednesday’s attack as antisemitic. The incident in the eastern suburb of Woollahra came after federal police this week established a task force to investigate increasing antisemitic crimes across the country. Police said they are searching for two suspects, aged between 15 and 20, who were seen at the scene of the attack, wearing face masks, or balaclavas, and dark clothing. This isn’t an attack on a government, this is an attack on people…