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BBC Europe – Italy earthquakes: Bad weather hampers rescue efforts. Bad weather has been hampering rescue efforts in central Italy after two strong earthquakes damaged buildings and injured dozens of people. Hundreds of residents spent the night in cars and emergency shelters after Wednesday’s quakes, but officials said the situation was not “catastrophic”. No deaths have been reported. Historic buildings have collapsed, and one mayor said his town was “finished”.
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Bank of England quizzes British lenders on exposure to Deutsche
Data on Monte dei Paschi also sought. Growing unease over European financial sector. |
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| WSJE |
How the GOP crashed its party
Trump seized on Republicans’ failure to change enough to accommodate four decades of newcomers? |
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| INYT |
Chinas “ecological migrants”
Residents are struggling as Beijing resettles people from distressed lands |
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| Le Monde |
CETA’s failure forces Europe to rethink its functioning
The free trade agreement between the EU and Canada (CETA), whose ratification on Thursday 27 October seems uncertain, is already considered a political setback. |
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| Les Echos |
How Apple prepares its rebound
The company in Cupertino sees a decline in sales for the first time in fifteen years. It is betting on a recovery through the iPhone 7 and prepares the revamping of its computer range. |
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| Frankfurter Allgemeine |
Federal government wants to better protect residents against noises from railway tracks
No loud freight cars from December 2020 onwards. Pressure on companies. |
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| Süddeutsche Zeitung |
Hope for the French economy
Less unemployed, more investment: After a long crisis, the French neighbour is experiencing a slight upturn. President Hollande is already speaking of a turnaround, but remains highly unpopular. |
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| La Repubblica |
Central Italy, never-ending earthquakes
The earth shakes twice, buildings collapse, several injured and one dead. |
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| Il Sole 24 Ore |
Pensions: All the rules to ask for the advance
Costs will be set by decree. |
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| Gazeta Wyborcza |
Ramming into junior high schools
Prime Minister Beata Szydło made it clear that the education reform would be implemented as planned starting from 2017. This is happening regardless of protests staged by teachers, parents, local Self-Government, school principals and also Law and Justice party members. |
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| El Pais |
Rajoy commits to govern before the Congress
The president states that he will have to look for majorities every day in order to grant stability. |
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| Expansion |
Rajoy: Pacts on pensions, education and Catalonia
Mariano Rajoy, yesterday stretched out the hand to PSOE and Ciudadanos in order to develop agreements regarding the “big challenges”. |
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| The Times |
Heathrow overvalued by £86bn
Buried government figures reveal benefit to economy was vastly exaggerated. |
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| The Guardian |
May under fire for secret talk on Brexit fears
Condemnation from UK and abroad over failure to air concerns in public.
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