The legislation creates a presumption that goods coming from Xinjiang are made with forced labour.

To mark the anniversary, citizens offered flowers and paid homage before giant bronze statues of Kim Jong Il and Kim Il Sung at Pyongyang’s Mansu Hill.

Britain has touted the deal as its largest “from scratch” to be finalised.

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The cause of the fire and other details were not immediately known.

The defeat caps a turbulent few weeks for Boris Johnson.

Sweeping new measures have been announced in England and Scotland to contain a potential 'tsunami' of infections during the festive season.

Clearview has amassed a database of billions of people's photos, but France says the data has been collected without citizens' consent.

Some 2,000 people staged a protest during a parliamentary budget debate on Thursday to demand higher wages and pensions.

The new coalition partners have said they no longer want to sit next to the German's far-right AfD party.

The Bank of England raised interest rates in the United Kingdom to combat surging consumer prices, becoming the first central bank among the world’s leading economies to do so since the COVID-19 pandemic began.

The Hungarian government claims last week's Constitutional Court ruling on EU migration rules as a victory for self-determination. The reality is more complex, writes lawyer Zsolt Szekeres.

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The 15 time Grammy award winning artist is launching her new album Keys at an immersive concert in Dubai

At least 44 people have died in shooting incidents across Sweden in 2021, according to police figures.

Activists have said that lithium excavation could inflict lasting ecological damage on rivers and farmland in the region.

The 36-year-old suspect has formally pleaded not guilty to her murder.

Turkey's interior ministry said it has seized more 30,000 litres of smuggled liquor.

A total of 488 journalists and media workers were in prison in mid-December 2021, Reporters Without Borders said, including 60 women.

No one was killed in the incident, but around 90 people were injured, including 20 who needed hospital treatment.

The cells will be used to house foreign prisoners who are due to be deported after serving their sentences.

Five children died and four others were in critical condition on Thursday after falling from a bouncy castle.

The European Central Bank is being pulled two ways: It's caught between a scheduled end of its pandemic stimulus and growing alarm about the new omicron variant of the coronavirus.

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The Dutch royal family expressed regret for holding a gathering for future Queen Amalia's 18th birthday that broke COVID-19 measures.

From Saturday, travellers will need to provide "compelling reasons", and entry into France will be restricted mostly to French and EU nationals, residents and their families.

Ten people were given official bravery awards on Thursday for helping to save lives during the 2019 attack in which 51 were killed by a far-right gunman.

The US president visited two towns in Kentucky, one of several states hit by tornadoes last weekend, killing dozens of people.

A judge said social media posts by far-right MP Thierry Baudet went beyond 'robust public debate' and 'instrumentalised human suffering in the Holocaust'.

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Florin Roman, who had served in Romania’s new coalition government for less than a month, quit his post after his education credentials were called into question.

Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin pleaded guilty to a federal charge of violating George Floyd’s civil rights.

Beijing has slammed Lithuania for allowing Taiwan to open a de-facto representative office in Vilnius.

The Palermo man is accused of claiming up to €170,000 in state aid over a number of years.

UK registers record number of COVID-19 cases due to Omicron variant

Known for her books Teaching to Transgress and Feminism is for Everybody, the Kentucky native has died at home after an illness.

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"It is a milestone decision since it confirms the Hungarian approach to migration policy and underscores that Hungarians have the right to defend themselves and their borders."

A British activist has lost a legal challenge on the government’s policy not to allow gender-neutral passports.

The drugs were incinerated in Bavaria on Tuesday as part of "Operation Snow Melt".

Poland on Wednesday registered the highest number of COVID-19-related deaths since April amid a continuing high daily rate of new coronavirus infections.

Fourteen people died in a few blocks, 11 of them on a single street, Moss Creek Avenue. Entire families were lost, among them seven children, two of them infants.

A volcanic eruption on the Spanish island of La Palma may be over after almost three months of daily explosions, earthquakes, lava rivers and toxic gases.

The gay-dating app was found to have shared users' personal data with third-party advertisers without their permission.

Russia has always denied any involvement in the killing, which has escalated tensions between Berlin and Moscow

The UK prime minister's authority is increasingly being doubted after a series of scandals and criticism of the government's handling of the pandemic.

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Dozens of people were evacuated and at least 12 were taken to hospital after fire took hold of the World Trade Centre, before it was later brought under control.

Among the front-runners of over 100 candidates are Gaddafi's son, Seif-al-Islam, and Khalid al-Haftar, a Benghazi-based warlord.