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Technology: Meta Hit With 390 Million Euro Fine For Data Breaches

Facebook parent company Meta Ireland has been fined a total of 390 million euros (413 million US dollars) for breaches of European Union (EU) data protection rules. Read on for details:

Dynamite News

EU agrees ‘to strongly encourage’ negative Covid test for travellers from China

European Union states have also been advised to conduct random testing on arrivals from China, regardless of nationality

Evening Standard

Keir Starmer announces he'll turn Take Back Control from Brexit slogan into a new law

The Labour leader said a Take Back Control Bill would be one of his first acts in government, as he stood in front of machinery vowing to 'roll up our sleeves' in a major New Year speech

Daily Mirror

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Commentary: Europe’s carbon tariff is the right general idea, but doomed by details

The European Union just unveiled its plan to impose border taxes on greenhouse gas polluters as part of its effort to become carbon neutral by 2050. In doing so it will become the first major economic bloc to try to enforce good climate behavior, not just on its own industries,…

Los Angeles Times

Former NATO chief: Europe must help deter China from attacking Taiwan

"We must not make the same mistakes with Xi Jinping that we did with Vladimir Putin," Anders Fogh Rasmussen said in Taiwan.

Axios

Patients left in hospital corridors in Beijing after surge in severe Covid

The Chuiyangliu hospital in Beijing was packed with newly arrived patients on Thursday – with beds running out by mid-morning as ambulances continued to turn up

Wales Online

UK Government drafts in disaster charity to help with Channel lorry queues

THE UK government has drafted in a disaster response charity to help stuck lorry drivers in the event of future chaos at Dover, it has emerged.

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Mick Lynch challenged over his Brexit support by James O’Brien

Plan to rip up workers’ rights ‘direct consequence of Brexit you supported’, LBC host tells union chief

The Independent UK

Ireland Fines Meta 390M Euros in Latest Privacy Crackdown

Irish regulators on Wednesday hit Facebook parent Meta with hundreds of millions in fines for online privacy violations and banned the company from forcing European users to agree to personalized ads based on their online activity. Ireland's Data Protection Commission imposed two fines totaling 390 million euros ($414 million) in…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Just 224 farmers were paid under post-Brexit farming scheme last year

Exclusive: Leaked figures show tiny fraction of England’s farms received payment under sustainable farming incentive

The Guardian - UK

Free Speech Historian Jacob Mchangama on Europe's Digital Services Act

A very interesting L.A. Times op-ed from a couple of weeks ago; an excerpt: In November, the European Union's Digital Services Act took effect, with enforcement beginning for some businesses during the next year and for the rest in January 2024. The stated purpose of the law is to end…

Reason

Government will consider options if CMO calls for Covid testing for passengers from China

European Union officials are meeting today to discuss whether or not the measure should be introduced across the bloc

Irish Mirror

Global economy 2023: how governments could make the energy crisis worse this year

This is the second instalment in our series on where the global economy is heading in 2023, which started with this article on global inflation.

The Conversation

Shameless Vote Leave video claims Brexit will lead to lower NHS wait times

CHEAPER energy bills. Lower migration. An extra £350 million a week for the NHS. There was little that the zealots pushing…

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Nadine Dorries fumes as Tories 'ditch plans to privatise Channel 4'

NADINE Dorries has been left fuming amid reports the Government is planning to abandon plans to sell off Channel 4.

The Independent UK

EU hails high gas storage levels despite Russian cuts

The European Union says natural gas storage levels are high despite Russian attempts to choke off supplies to Europe amid the war in Ukraine

Bangkok Post

Oil fund considering second B30bn loan

The Oil Fuel Fund Office (Offo) is considering seeking an additional 30-billion-baht loan within March to repay debts incurred by using the fund to subsidise diesel and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) prices.

The Independent UK

EU moving toward joint measures to face China COVID crisis

European Union nations are fine-tuning a coordinated response to China’s COVID-19 crisis and are zeroing in on travel restrictions that would upset both Beijing and the global airline industry

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Irish Mirror

Are mandatory masks on the way back? The latest as EU officials sound Covid alarm

The European Union is meeting today in Brussels to discuss the current Covid-19 situation

Evening Standard

Ukraine’s survival is far from certain, we must give them better weapons

SIR Geoffrey Nice KC, who led the prosecution against Slobodan Milošević of Yugoslavia, has called for the prosecution of Vladimir Putin for war crimes against the population of Ukraine. Not that the move has much prospect of immediate success.

Reuters

Germany says EU decisions should not be blocked by individual countries

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on Wednesday that the European Union could no longer afford to have decisions blocked by individual member states.

The Independent UK

Brexit: disaster relief charity hired to help drivers stuck at Dover

Post-Brexit problems have seen major standstills in the roads leading up to UK’s busiest port

Reuters

Czech billionaire Babis fights fraud trial alongside presidential contest

Czech billionaire and former Prime Minister Andrej Babis returned to court to fight fraud accusations over a 2 million euro subsidy on Wednesday, days before a presidential election in which he is a favourite begins.

Evening Standard

China rallies for ‘final victory’ over Covid-19 despite rising cases

China has used its mouthpiece newspaper to rally citizens towards what it claims would be a “final victory” over Covid-19, as global health officials try to determine the facts behind the country’s outbreak.

Reuters

China COVID data shows no new variant but under-reports deaths, WHO says

Data from China shows that no new coronavirus variant has been found there, but also that the country under-represents how many people have died in a rapidly spreading COVID-19 outbreak, World Health Organization (WHO) officials said on Wednesday.

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