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France loses diesel pollution fight in EU court

8:28 pm October 24, 2019

Luxembourg : The EU’s top court ruled on Thursday that France has persistently exceeded the threshold limit for nitrogen dioxide, a polluting gas from diesel motors that causes major health problems. France “systematically and persistently exceeded the annual limit value for nitrogen dioxide since Jan. 1, 2010,” the court said in a statement. The European […]

UK prime minister Boris Johnson mulls early election over Brexit impasse

UK prime minister mulls early election over Brexit impasse

9:24 pm October 23, 2019

LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was weighing Wednesday whether to push for an early election or try again to pass his stalled European Union divorce deal, after Parliament blocked a fast-track plan to approve his Brexit bill before the UK’s scheduled departure from the bloc on Oct. 31. Lawmakers backed the substance of Johnson’s […]

ITC launches world’s most expensive chocolate priced at Rs 4.3 lakh/kg

10:33 pm October 22, 2019

New Delhi: Diversified group ITC on Tuesday launched the world’s most expensive chocolate priced at Rs 4.3 lakh per kilogram under its Fabelle brand. ITC’s luxury chocolate brand Fabelle Exquisite Chocolates has introduced its limited edition range chocolate ‘Trinity – Truffles Extraordinaire’ – which entered into Guinness World Records to become the world’s most expensive […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Vatican condemns ‘defiance’ after Amazon statues thrown in river

11:59 pm October 21, 2019

Rome: The Vatican on Monday spoke of an “act of defiance” after some indigenous Amazonian statues were taken from a Rome church and dumped into the Tiber River following criticism from ultra-conservative Catholics. Anonymous individuals filmed themselves taking the five statues of a naked, pregnant woman from a church near the Vatican and throwing them […]

French govt says new Brexit delay ‘in nobody’s interest’

8:27 pm October 21, 2019

Paris: France believes an additional delay to Britain’s exit from the EU is “in nobody’s interest,” a government spokeswoman said Monday, as British Prime Minister Boris Johnson seeks support from MPs for a new divorce deal. “It’s now up to the British parliament to say what it thinks, it’s no longer up to the European […]