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Facebook announces 10,000 EU jobs to build 'metaverse'
The company has faced a storm of criticism over the past month after former employee Frances Haugen leaked internal studies showing Facebook knew its sites...
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Under-pressure Taliban meet EU-US delegation in push for support
Afghanistan's new rulers are seeking recognition, as well as assistance to avoid a humanitarian disaster, after they returned to power in August following the withdrawal of US troops after 20 years of war.
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EU to return J&J vaccines made in South Africa
The announcement followed a meeting in Berlin between South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen, he said, adding that the first supplies were expected this month.
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Macron plays down EU refusal on Putin talks
Analysts said Macron and Germany's Angela Merkel had been impressed by the results of a summit between US President Joseph Biden and Putin in Geneva on June 16, and did not want the EU to be sidelined on Russia policy.
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COVID-19 crisis worsened corruption in EU: watchdog
The report's authors singled out Hungary and Poland as countries using the crisis as 'an excuse to undermine democracy' by imposing regulations that weaken democratic institutions.
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EU seeks firm Biden pledge to end Trump-era trade row
The EU hoped the visit by Biden would help achieve "decisive progress" on solving a steel tariff dispute as well as a two-decade spat over subsidies to plane-makers Boeing and Airbus, Dombrovskis said.
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Biden condemns 'outrageous' Belarus forced plane landing, backs sanctions
Belarus's strongman leader Alexander Lukashenko sparked international outrage by dispatching a fighter jet Sunday to intercept the Ryanair flight from Athens to Vilnius carrying Protasevich, 26, and his girlfriend Sofia Sapega.
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EU top diplomat urges Israel-Palestinian ceasefire
The EU has struggled to find a common position on the fighting. Some of the bloc's 27 members have backed Israel, while others support the Palestinians.
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EU to hold urgent talks on Israel-Palestinian fighting Tuesday
The heaviest fighting since 2014 between Israel and Islamist group Hamas, sparked by unrest in Jerusalem, has claimed 174 lives in the crowded coastal enclave of Gaza and killed 10 people in Israel since Monday.
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Putin denounces 'confrontational' EU stance on Russia
Putin stressed that Russia was ready to 'resume normal depoliticised' ties with the European Union if there's a will to do so in Brussels, the Kremlin said.
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EU sends top envoy to Moscow as Navalny controversy grows
The EU's ties with Russia have been in the doldrums since Moscow seized Crimea and began fuelling the war in Ukraine in 2014 - and there are concerns about its involvement in Belarus, Syria, Libya, central Africa and the Caucasus.
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EU agrees new coronavirus travel curbs
The European Commission remains opposed to a blanket travel ban or closures of national borders across the European Union, despite some members seeking tougher measures.
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EU member states endorse Brexit trade deal
This will provisionally allow tariff-free trade with Britain to continue after it leaves the EU single market at the New Year.
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Britain faces major Brexit challenges after last-minute deal
The country will now not tumble off a trade 'cliff-edge' come 1 January, avoiding a mountain of harmful tariffs and quotas.
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EU and Britain seal post-Brexit trade deal
The final 2,000-page agreement was held up by last-minutre wrangling over fishing as both sides haggled over the access EU fisherman will get to Britain's waters after the end of the year.
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EU urges end to bans over UK virus strain as travel chaos looms
The new variant of the virus, which has also been detected in small numbers elsewhere, appears to spread more easily than other types but there is no evidence it is more lethal or resistant to vaccines, according to experts.
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Brexit hopes dim as Johnson says failure 'very likely'
Whatever happens, Britain will leave the EU single market and customs union, leading to the re-introduction of border checks for the first time in decades.
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EU launches legal action over UK Brexit bill
On Tuesday, British MPs backed a bill to regulate the UK's internal market from January 1, when Britain completes its post-Brexit transition period and leaves the EU single market and customs union.
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Migration is burning issue in EU election campaign
In all, around 7.5% of the more than 510 million people in the EU did not hold the citizenship of the country where they lived as of January 1, 2017, according to Eurostat.
