Wellington, Sydney (6/10 – 33) Nearly a month after suffering brutal humiliation by host country France, New Zealand has barged through to the 2023 Rugby World Cup quarter-finals. France is…
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An Aura of Invincibility: Ireland’s 7 Wins over every Champion in 15 Months
Paris, Dublin, London (24/9 – 32) Undefeated in 17 games in the last 15 months, Ireland has beaten every rugby union world champion, three of them twice – just for…
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“Special Military Operation” or War of Attrition?
by Freddy Evansby Freddy EvansBrussels, Frankfurt (28/9 – 28) The conflict in Ukraine has held the world’s attention for a year and a half; now that it has apparently settled into an extended slugfest…
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“NCIS pathologist” David McCallum dies at 90
by Lucas Hayesby Lucas HayesVienna, Brussels (26/9 – 36) David McCallum – the British actor who played as Dr. Donald “Ducky” Mallard, a pathologist on hit CBS TV program NCIS, has died aged 90…
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Persona non grata of French Ambassador to Niger
by Freddy Evansby Freddy EvansParis, Toronto (17/9 – 37) The French ambassador to Niger and other French diplomats “were actually held hostage in the French embassy” during the emergency following the military junta coup…
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A Viking Funeral? Dwindling Nordics in Brussels Blame the EU
Northern countries want to revise the EU’s recruitment’s system to increase their share of Eurocrats. That’s the existential exhortation from countries like Denmark, Sweden and Finland, which say the European…
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EU Digital Services Act: Tech Companies Face a Reckoning in Europe as New Rules Come Into Force
The EU Digital Services Act, which comes into force this week, is leading to big changes in how Internet giants operate in Europe. The European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA)…
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EU Sanction Threatens Uzbek’s Alisher Usmanov Relationship with West
Berlin (27/08 – 25) Alisher Usmanov is one of Uzbekistan’s leading businessman and the Central Asian country’s main philanthropist. Despite Usmanov’s many proactive activities in the West and in Uzbekistan,…
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Europe Backs Kazakhstan’s Efforts To Sidestep Russian Influence
On June 20, after meeting with Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev in Astana, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier announced Germany’s recent endorsement of Kazakhstan’s efforts to create alternative trade routes and transport…
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EU Cohesion Policy: More Than €30 Million for Modernising Greece’s Athens-Patras Railway
by Freddy Evansby Freddy EvansThe section will be part of the rail connection between Athens and Patras and will reduce the journey time between the two cities by 20 minutes. The track will be…