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    • Italian police smash organised group for illegal immigration to Europe 06 March, 2021

      Italian police smash organised group for illegal immigration to Europe

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      Italian police on Friday smashed a northern Italian organisation made up of Iraqi Kurds engaged to help illegal immigrants come to Europe from Kurdistan, ANSA reported. The gang allegedly provided the migrants with fake documents in exchange for large sums of money, police said. Seven Iraqi Kurds were arrested in the police operation.

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    • Lithuania refuses to extradite Belarus opposition leader 06 March, 2021

      Lithuania refuses to extradite Belarus opposition leader

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      • Europost

      Lithuania on Friday refused to extradite to Belarus the opposition figure Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, with the Baltic nation's foreign minister Gabrielius Landsbergis saying “hell will freeze over first" before the demand by Belarus' authoritarian leader is granted, AP reported.

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    • Cyprus will open doors to vaccinated UK tourists from 1 May 05 March, 2021

      Cyprus will open doors to vaccinated UK tourists from 1 May

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      • Europost

      Cyprus will open its doors from 1 May to British tourists who have been vaccinated against Covid-19, AFP reported, citing a government minister in Nicosia. "We informed the British government that as of May 1, we would facilitate the arrival of British citizens immunised with EU-licenced vaccines to enter Cyprus with no negative Covid-19 test and no quarantine," Tourism Minister Savvas Perdios said, quoted by the state-funded Cyprus News Agency.

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    • First in EU, Italy halts export of 250,000 AstraZeneca shots 05 March, 2021

      First in EU, Italy halts export of 250,000 AstraZeneca shots

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      • Europost

      Italy told the European Commission it was blocking the export of over 250,000 doses of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine to Australia, the first EU member to make such a move, and the EC accepted the proposal, ANSA reported on Thursday. The shots were due to go to Australia. Italy's proposal was made in line with the new European mechanism on export controls.

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    • Hungary tightens pandemic restrictions amid rising deaths 04 March, 2021

      Hungary tightens pandemic restrictions amid rising deaths

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      Authorities in Hungary are tightening pandemic restrictions in an effort to mitigate a rapid rise in deaths and hospitalizations caused by COVID-19.

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    • French court acquits former PM Édouard Balladur of corruption 04 March, 2021

      French court acquits former PM Édouard Balladur of corruption

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      • Europost

      A French court on Thursday acquitted former prime minister Edouard Balladur on corruption charges after he was accused of using kickbacks from an arms deal but handed a suspended jail term to his former defence minister.

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    • Poll of polls shows 15 parties could enter the next Dutch parliament 04 March, 2021

      Poll of polls shows 15 parties could enter the next Dutch parliament

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      • Europost

      Two weeks before the general election in The Netherlands, scheduled for 17 March, the latest poll of polls hints that as many as 15 parties could be represented in the new parliament, DutchNews.nl reported. While support for PM Mark Rutte’s VVD remains far above the rest – with 23% to 25% of the vote – a number of new parties may win one or two, including pan European party Volt.

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    • Swedish police no longer investigating terror motives in Vetlanda attack 04 March, 2021

      Swedish police no longer investigating terror motives in Vetlanda attack

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      • Europost

      Swedish police on Thursday said they were no longer investigating possible terror motives for the attack in the town of Vetlanda, where a man stabbed and injured eight people a day earlier, AFP reported.

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    • Lithuania will open trade representation office in Taiwan 04 March, 2021

      Lithuania will open trade representation office in Taiwan

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      • Europost

      Lithuania will open a trade representation office this year in Taiwan, which China considers a breakaway province, a move that is bound to anger the Asian giant, Reuters reported. The office will be opened in a bid to boost economic diplomacy in Asia, Vytaute Smaizyte, the spokeswoman of the Economic and Innovation Ministry said on Wednesday.

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    • German business decries gradual easing as disaster 04 March, 2021

      German business decries gradual easing as disaster

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      • Europost

      German business groups expressed disappointment on Thursday after Chancellor Angela Merkel and state leaders agreed a gradual easing of coronavirus curbs but added an “emergency brake” to re-impose restrictions if case numbers get out of control, Reuters reported. “The results of the coronavirus summit are a disaster for the retail sector,” said Stefan Genth, chief executive of the HDE retail association.

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  • Italian police smash organised group for illegal immigration to Europe

    news image title 06 March, 2021

    Italian police on Friday smashed a northern Italian organisation made up of Iraqi Kurds engaged to help illegal immigrants come to Europe from Kurdistan, ANSA reported. The gang allegedly provided the migrants with fake documents in exchange for large sums of money, police said. Seven Iraqi Kurds were arrested in the police operation.

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  • Lithuania refuses to extradite Belarus opposition leader

    news image title 06 March, 2021

    Lithuania on Friday refused to extradite to Belarus the opposition figure Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, with the Baltic nation's foreign minister Gabrielius Landsbergis saying “hell will freeze over first" before the demand by Belarus' authoritarian leader is granted, AP reported.

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  • Cyprus will open doors to vaccinated UK tourists from 1 May

    news image title 05 March, 2021

    Cyprus will open its doors from 1 May to British tourists who have been vaccinated against Covid-19, AFP reported, citing a government minister in Nicosia. "We informed the British government that as of May 1, we would facilitate the arrival of British citizens immunised with EU-licenced vaccines to enter Cyprus with no negative Covid-19 test and no quarantine," Tourism Minister Savvas Perdios said, quoted by the state-funded Cyprus News Agency.

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