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EU a haven from world's dangers, Macron tells Europeans

STRASBOURG (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron urged Europeans on Tuesday to halt a retreat into national antagonisms and rebuild the European Union as a bulwark for liberal democracy against a disorderly and dangerous world. Source: Reuters World News

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Israel hints it could hit Iran's 'air force' in Syria

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel released details on Tuesday about what it described as an Iranian "air force" deployed in neighboring Syria, including civilian planes suspected of transferring arms, a signal that these could be attacked should tensions with Tehran escalate. Source: Reuters World News

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Bulgarian says innocent of charges that he breached U.S. embargo on Syria

SOFIA (Reuters) - When Bulgarian student Zhelyaz Andreev got a job at the Sofia office of a Miami-based company to help pay his way through university the last thing he expected was to be sucked into an international incident. He was wrong. Source: Reuters World News

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Seychelles plans to install Africa’s first utility-scale floating solar project

Seychelles is planning to install Africa’s first utility-scale Floating Solar Photovoltaic (PV) system on the sea, said a top official of the Seychelles Energy Commission. The chief executive officer of the commission, Tony Imaduwa, told SNA on Monday that this project will inject clean and green energy into the island nation's electricity system. “It will [...]

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Boracay: Riot police to keep tourists at bay

The Philippines government will deploy dozens of riot police to ensure that tourists don't interfere with a planned six-month cleanup of its famed Boracay island, a police official said Tuesday. Source: Latest CNN News

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Facebook hit with class action suit over facial recognition tool

A US federal judge in California ruled Monday that Facebook will have to face a class action suit over allegations it violated users' privacy by using a facial recognition tool on their photos without their explicit consent. The ruling comes as the social network is snared in a scandal over the mishandling of 87 million [...]

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May apologizes to Caribbean countries over UK treatment of post-war migrants

LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May apologized to representatives from 12 Caribbean countries on Tuesday over recent harsh treatment by immigration bureaucrats of people who arrived in Britain as children after World War Two. Source: Reuters World News

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