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Clampdown on terrorism - new counter-terrorism law backed by civil liberties MEPs

Civil Liberties Committee MEPs voted by 37 to 4, with 7 abstentions, to back an informal deal on the draft law, struck by Parliament, the Council and Commission on 17 November. For a preparatory act to be criminalised, it must have been carried out...

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Students Celebrate As School Meals Resume In Sudan’s Blue Nile State

Following a more than five-year hiatus, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) resumed its school meals programme in Sudan’s Blue Nile State this week for more than 7,000 students in 21 schools.

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Xi Jinping’s Ibero-American Tour Signals Global Strategic Shift

On the eve of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s Nov. 17 arrival in Ecuador for a state visit, that country’s President Rafael Correa stated that Xi’s visit “was the most important visit by a head of state in Ecuador’s history,” adding that China’s...

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£100M investment in Britain's future 'Protector' programme

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. will develop their current drone technology into new cutting-edge unmanned aerial vehicles for use by UK Royal Air Force.

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