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Greece seems to be handling the pandemic crisis with much too many health experts committees who do not even bother to be in communication with each other. The result is confusion as to who proposes measures against the pandemic and which one is the committee whose proposals the government adopts …
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For four years, Donald Trump has been the world’s standard-bearer for right-wing populism. The movement didn’t begin with Trump, but the US President championed it in a way no other leader could, using the weight of the most powerful office on Earth to give it legitimacy.
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A 31-year-old man has been jailed for 21 months for throwing eggs at a police station, the latest tough sentence handed down by a Hong Kong court as the authorities move to clamp down on political dissent in the Chinese territory.
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Australian winemakers have been dealt another blow from China as tensions continue to spiral between the two countries.
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Legendary soccer great Diego Maradona has been buried near the grave of his parents at a cemetery outside Buenos Aires. Diego Laje describes how Argentinians are remembering the late football star.
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Refugee and migration flows to Greece dropped 74%pct in the first ten months of 2020, compared to flows registered in the same period in 2019, says a report released on Thursday by Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency. Some 17,000 crossings into Greece were recorded between January and …
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Several French police officers were suspended Thursday after a video emerged of them beating a Black man in Paris.
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