Air­line trade body slams COVID rules on trav­ellers from Chi­na
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Crit­i­cism from In­ter­na­tion­al Air Trans­port As­so­ci­a­tion comes as EU weighs bloc-wide rules on ar­rivals from Chi­na.
Published On 4 Jan 2023

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US House im­passe: Biden urges Re­pub­li­cans to ‘get act to­geth­er’
Re­pub­li­can leader Kevin Mc­Carthy re­mains de­fi­ant in bid for House speak­er as law­mak­ers pre­pare for fur­ther bal­lots.
Published On 4 Jan 2023

French police investigate sex assault claim against ex-archbishop
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Michel Aupetit, who resigned as archbishop of Paris in 2021 after admitting to an ‘ambiguous’ relationship with a woman in 2012, denies wrongdoing

Stinger used to halt car which failed to stop for gardaí and crossed Border
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Five teenagers have been arrested following the incident in the early hours of Wednesday

Facebook parent company fined €390m by Data Protection Commissioner
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Meta Ireland was fined €210 million for breaches of EU data privacy rules relating to Facebook, and €180 million for breaches in relation to Instagram

Teacher Enoch Burke seeks injunction to halt school disciplinary meeting
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Mr Burke appeared before a vacation sitting of the High Court on Wednesday

France limits paracetamol sales
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With China using up its own supply, Paris has suspended online purchases of the painkiller for a month

France on Wednesday announced a prohibition on the online sale of paracetamol, which has been in short supply for several months. The ban, which will last until February, came after China restricted exports of the drug amid a surge in Covid-19 cases.

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Crit­i­cism of Lula’s eco­nom­ic plans mounts as Brazil mar­kets tank
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An­a­lysts and a lead­ing news­pa­per have slammed min­is­ters af­ter lo­cal mar­kets tanked in Lula’s first two days in of­fice.
Published On 4 Jan 2023

Syr­ia op­po­si­tion un­easy af­ter Turk­ish out­reach to al-As­sad regime
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Turkey says there is no change in its Syr­ia pol­i­cy af­ter op­po­si­tion groups urge Ankara to reaf­firm sup­port for them.
Published On 4 Jan 2023

Colom­bia back­tracks on cease­fire an­nounce­ment with ELN rebels
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Gov­ern­ment’s about-face comes af­ter left-wing rebels said they had not dis­cussed a truce with Bo­go­ta.
Published On 4 Jan 2023

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Iran re­leas­es promi­nent ac­tress jailed for back­ing protests
Taraneh Ali­doosti, star of an Os­car-win­ning film, was jailed for crit­i­cis­ing a crack­down on Mah­sa Ami­ni protests.
Published On 4 Jan 2023

German police union urges fireworks ban on NYE
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The civilian use of pyrotechnics has led to dozens of injuries during recent celebrations in the country, the organization reports 

German police union GdP has urged the government to forbid New Year’s Eve fireworks for individual use. The move was proposed this week as the country’s officials condemned dozens of attacks with pyrotechnics on rescue workers over the holiday.

“The state will not tolerate that people who are celebrating peacefully and personnel who are doing their duty are attacked in this way,” Christiane Hoffmann, the first deputy spokesperson of the German federal government, told a news confere...

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US state executes first trans prisoner
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A 49-year-old inmate has received a lethal injection for stalking and killing an ex-girlfriend

Convicted murderer Amber McLaughlin became the first openly transgender prisoner to be executed in the US on Tuesday, when she was put to death by lethal injection. McLaughlin, then male and using her birth name Scott, was found guilty in 2006 of first-degree murder in the slaying of an ex-girlfriend three years earlier. 

She was sentenced to death by a judge after a jury was unable to agree on a sentence. The perpetrator left a written statement on Tuesday reading, “...

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