Tag: Europe
EU pushes on with migrant policy outsourcing plans
BRUSSELS — European Union leaders pushed ahead Thursday with plans to outsource the bloc’s migration policy challenges by spending billions of euros to improve...
2021 Tour de France preview: Pogacar vs Roglic rematch
Not so long ago, Tadej Pogacar was a just a promising outsider still learning the ropes of cycling's biggest race.
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Dutch group launches data harvesting claim against TikTok
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — A Dutch consumer group is launching a 1.5 billion euro ($1.8 billion) claim against TikTok over what it alleges is...
UK plans to ease quarantine rules for travel to US, EU
LONDON — Britain said Thursday that it intends to relax pandemic travel restrictions by allowing people who are fully vaccinated to visit a wide...
Merkel: Europe ‘on thin ice’ amid delta virus variant rise
BERLIN — German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday that Europe is “on thin ice” in its battle against the coronavirus, as the highly contagious...
Guitarist quits Mumford & Sons to ‘speak freely’ on politics
LONDON — Winston Marshall, a founding member of folk-rock group Mumford & Sons, announced Thursday that is leaving the band so that he can...
Jewish Museum in Berlin opens kids’ museum about Noah’s Ark
BERLIN — Torrential rain pours down, waves break and big puddles splash as visitors enter the new children's museum at the Jewish Museum in...
Spain to allow fans back into stadiums next season
MADRID — Spain will be closer to normal when it comes to allowing fans into stadiums next season, the government said Thursday.
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John McAfee, software pioneer turned fugitive, dead at 75
John McAfee, the outlandish security software pioneer who tried to live life as a hedonistic outsider while running from a host of legal troubles,...
Gibraltar votes on whether to ease its strict abortion law
GIBRALTAR — Gibraltar was holding a referendum Thursday on whether to introduce exceptions to the British territory’s ban on abortion.
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