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TOPSHOT – Vietnamese property tycoon Truong My Lan (R) looks on at a court in Ho Chi Minh city on December 3, 2024. Lan sentenced to death for a multi-billion-dollar fraud will learn on December 3, whether her life will be spared, as an appeal court reaches its verdict on one of the biggest corruption cases in history. (Photo by -STR / AFP) (Photo by -STR/AFP via Getty Images)

Vietnam property tycoon facing death penalty for $27 billion fraud appeals life sentence in separate money-laundering case

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French President Emmanuel Macron attends a wreath laying ceremony at the Charles de Gaulle Monument in Warsaw, on December 12, 2024. French President Emmanuel Macron visits Poland on Thursday to report on recent talks with his Ukraine and US counterparts, Poland’s prime minister Donald Tusk said. (Photo by Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP) (Photo by WOJTEK RADWANSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

From Barnier’s fall to Bayrou’s rise? Suspense mounts as Macron prepares to pick new French PM

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BRUSSELS, BELGIUM – DECEMBER 4: Chair of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, French Member of the European Parliament (Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament – Place publique) Aurore Lalucq (L) and the President of the European Central Bank (ECB) Christine Lagarde (R) are listening during a hearing of the ECON Committee of the European Parliament on December 4, 2024 in Brussels, Belgium. The ECON Committee and the ECB President will discuss the quarterly assessment of the ECB’s monetary policy stance. (Photo by Thierry Monasse/Getty Images)

Political turmoil and eurozone gloom suggest third ECB rate cut incoming

By Sam Reeves and AFP

High angle view of a male worker standing atop a wind turbine at dusk wearing protective work clothes and safety hardhat inspecting machinery

Danish turbine giant Orsted ‘lacked foresight’ as President-elect Trump shuns offshore wind power

By Camille Bas-Wohlert and AFP

A television screen displays a news report featuring South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol at Seoul Station in Seoul, South Korea, on Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024. Yoon said he would fight until the last minute to defend himself after accusing the opposition of trying to paralyze his administration. Yoon’s defiant Thursday morning speech came as the chief of his own party called for his impeachment. Photographer: Jean Chung/Bloomberg via Getty Images

South Korea’s president says he’ll fight impeachment ‘until the very last minute’

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Klarna, PayPal, and Venmo stickers at checkout at the Macy’s flagship store on Black Friday in New York, US, on Friday, Nov. 24, 2023. An estimated 182 million people are planning to shop from Thanksgiving Day through Cyber Monday, the most since 2017, according to the National Retail Federation. Photographer: Bing Guan/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Swedish regulator slaps IPO-hopeful Klarna with $45 million fine over money laundering breach

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Olaf Scholz, Germany’s chancellor, during 125th anniversary celebrations at the Opel Russelsheim Plant in Russelsheim, Germany, on Saturday, June 8, 2024. Stellantis NV and Mercedes-Benz Group AG are putting work on two electric-vehicle battery plants on hold and may pivot to manufacturing lower-cost cells in light of slowing demand for still-expensive EVs. Photographer: Alex Kraus/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Germany pushes for EV subsidies as a lifeline to save Europe’s flailing electric ambitions

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LONDON, ENGLAND – OCTOBER 14: People walk past a Zara fashion retail store in Cheapside on October 14, 2024 in London, United Kingdom. (Photo by John Keeble/Getty Images)

‘Massimo’ growth for Zara owner Inditex as it reaches record profit

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NAPLES, CAMPANIA, ITALY – 2024/09/30: (EDITORS NOTE: Image depicts death.) The policemen are at the crime scene next to the lifeless body of Luigi Procopio who was gunned down on the street. The investigators suspect that Procopio was part of a camorra (local mafia) gang. (Photo by Salvatore Laporta/KONTROLAB/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Mafia milking €3.3 billion a year from tourism in Italy, with a 2026 Winter Olympics windfall forecast

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The city of Reykjavik has been designated as a UNESCO city of literature. Woman sitting on a bench by The Reykjavik Pond (Tjornin).

Iceland has seen the sharpest rise in immigrants among OECD countries—now the nation is urging everyone to learn the local language

By Jonathan Klein and AFP

Xi Jinping, China’s president, during a news conference with Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Brazil’s president, not pictured, at the Alvorada Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, on Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024. In roughly a dozen meetings with world leaders over a week in South America, Xi repeatedly sought to win assurances that nations would uphold the international free trade system as US President-elect Donald Trump threatens to put 60% tariffs on Chinese goods. Photographer: Ton Molina/Bloomberg via Getty Images

China’s Xi Jinping warns there will be ‘no winners’ in U.S. trade war with Beijing

By Peter Catterall and AFP

An operator works at the battery workshop of the Stellantis cars factory in Hordain, northern France on October 27, 2022. – The Stellantis group, born from the merger of PSA and Fiat-Chrysler, will launch the mass production of hydrogen-powered commercial vehicles in its factory located in Hordain, northern France, the carmaker’s CEO, Carlos Tavares, announced on October 27, 2022. (Photo by Sameer Al-DOUMY / AFP) (Photo by SAMEER AL-DOUMY/AFP via Getty Images)

Stellantis teams up with China’s CATL to build a $4.3 billion EV factory in Spain—Europe’s second-biggest vehicle producer

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Concept art from the developer promises an underground safe space with its own clinic, school, workshop, casino, bar, gym and spa as well as “artificial sunrises and sunsets”.

Outrage over plans to turn Germany’s Nazi war tunnels into crypto-powered survival bunkers for the super-rich

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An employee shows processed flowers of cannabis (marijuana) at the production site of German pharmaceutical company Demecan for medical cannabis in Ebersbach near Dresden, eastern Germany on November 28, 2022. Lost in the east German countryside, a former abattoir is now home to the biggest indoor cannabis farms in Europe. The German startup Demecan has been growing marijuana for about a year — completely legally. The complex is one of the few locations in Germany to have a license for the production of this “green gold”, which has been legal for medicinal use in Germany since 2017. (Photo by JENS SCHLUETER / AFP) / TO GO WITH AFP STORY by Florian CAZERES (Photo by JENS SCHLUETER/AFP via Getty Images)

Portugal to become the new ‘El Dorado’ of medical cannabis in Europe

By Thomas Cabral and AFP

Young woman in Rome

Brain drain in Italy: Young talent are fleeing the country due to low pay and lack of recognition

By Judith Renoult and AFP