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    • Coronavirus: Hospital admissions heading for 600 a day
    An average of almost 12,000 people tested positive for the new coronavirus (Covid-19) per day over the past week in Belgium, as the ...
    Coronavirus: Hospital admissions heading for 600 a day
    An average of almost 12,000 people tested positive for the new coronavirus (Covid-19) per day over the past week in Belgium, as the hospitalisation ...
    Brussels police take down Mohammed caricatures
      Brussels police have removed a number of posters depicting cartoons of the prophet Mohammed in the past week, Bruzz reports. The ...
    Human rights prize goes to opposition in Belarus
    The European Parliament has awarded this year’s Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought to the democratic opposition in Belarus, led by opposition ...
    Short-term sick leave down by 16% thanks to teleworking
    The number of cases of short-term sick leave fell by 16% following the lockdown in March and April, compared to the same period in 2019, according to ...
    Covid measures in Brussels: Cultural sector in shock
    The cultural sector in the capital has reacted with shock to the new measures announced yesterday by Brussels region’s minister-president Rudi ...
    Belgium moves towards 20,000 infections per day this week
    Belgium's coronavirus figures continue to rise "alarmingly" and will probably reach 20,000 new infections per day this week, health officials said ...
    Belgium’s Colonial Past: Commission urged to declassify archives
    Belgium’s State archivists have called for a series of archives related to the country’s colonial past to be declassified, particularly those of the ...
    Poland: Thousands protest against tougher abortion laws
    Thousands of people demonstrated on Saturday for the third consecutive day in Poland against a near-total ban on abortions in a country whose laws ...
    Covid-19 research: lockdowns have little effect on their own
    Emergency measures such as stay-at-home orders and a ban on public gatherings have individually little effect on reducing the spread of Covid-19, ...
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    Young people are catching on: An academic degree isn’t worth much
    Few have dared to question the effectiveness, integrity, and necessity of colleges and universities. The ...
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    Pekka Pesonen
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    Olga Kikou
    With Covid-19 spiking, healthy nutrition gains urgency
    As coronavirus cases are skyrocketing across the EU, with France imposing a strict curfew for several ...
    Lukas Moore
    Will Israelis, Emiratis and Bahrainis have a ‘warm’ peace?
    Contemporary journalism seems at times plagued by a tendency to call events as historic, to the extent one ...
    Dr. Alexander Loengarov
    Adequate minimum income for all – the time for EU action is now
    Poverty and inequality are rising again One in five people in Europe are at risk of poverty and social ...
    Sian Jones & Mathias Maucher
    Digital technology is transforming African film and music industry
    In the last four years the world’s top three major record companies with the largest global market share have ...
    Alexander Ayertey Odonkor
    Kamala Harris enhances the Biden campaign
    Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s selection of a Vice-Presidential candidate was considered his “first ...
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    Young people are catching on: An academic degree isn’t worth much
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    The US election is threatened by chaotic legal fallout
    President Donald Trump’s chances of reelection do not look good, even after his miraculous bout of corona. ...
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    With the big farming lobbies in the midst of a ferocious battle to ban ‘meaty’ and ‘dairy-type’ names on the ...
    Olga Kikou
    Will Israelis, Emiratis and Bahrainis have a ‘warm’ peace?
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    Kamala Harris enhances the Biden campaign
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    As autumn leaves begin to fall, the UK continues to slip-slide away from the EU. Cruising silently through ...
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    Why Belarus is not ‘another Maidan’
    The regime of Aleksander Lukashenko tried to undermine the protests comparing them to Ukrainian Maidan, but ...
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    AI in Europe: Chances and opportunities
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    Colombia’s strong man, from hero to criminal
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    Cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin and Facebook’s digital currency Libra, may herald the future of payment systems, or even how we will ...
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    Human rights prize goes to opposition in Belarus
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