Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s political party won the most seats in the Dutch parliament, according to a preliminary forecast by ANP news agency based on a count of 88.5% of the votes. “I note that the result of this election is that Dutch voters gave my party an overwhelming vote of confidence,” Rutte said as […]
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The fallout from a political scandal, an ongoing global pandemic, an economic downturn, simmering civil unrest: any one of these challenges would make for a fraught election campaign. But in the run-up to this week’s national election (COVID-19 has seen voting spread out over three days, from March 15-17), political parties in the Netherlands were […]
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Europe’s medicines regulator is to give an update into its investigation on whether there is a link between the use of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine and serious blood clotting issues after multiple countries suspended its use. Emer Cooke, Executive Director at the European Medicines Agency (EMA), is to deliver remarks at 14:00 CET. The press […]
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Finnish telecoms giant Nokia is to axe between 5,000 and 10,000 jobs worldwide in the next two years as it cuts costs. It is unclear where the bulk of the cuts will fall, but it said about 96 jobs in the UK were under threat as part of the €600m (£518m) cost cuts. Nokia is […]
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Following a closure of the Grapevine portion of the 5 Freeway overnight due to snow, the California Highway Patrol began escorting vehicles in both directions early Tuesday morning. The CHP closed the road about 8 p.m. Monday due to snow from the cold winter storm that lingered over the region: But starting Tuesday morning, the CHP began […]
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Iraqi citizen Jaseb Hattab, father of kidnapped activist Ali Hattab, has been killed by gunshot in Amara city in the Maysan governorate, southern Iraq, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said in a statement today warning of targeting activists’ families and its implications on the social peace. At about 7 p.m. on Wednesday 10th of March, […]
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