EUROPEAN HEADLINES
BBC Europe – Berlin truck attack: Police raid properties linked to mosque. German police have carried out raids across Berlin on properties linked to a mosque used by the Christmas market truck attacker, Anis Amri. A 460-strong police deployment searched apartments and two commercial premises. Six prison cells were also searched. The organisation which ran the mosque has been closed down.
| WSJE |
AIG weighs CEO’s ouster
Board to discuss Hancock’s future in March following big fourth-quarter loss. |
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| INYT |
Provocateur stirs up the Dutch vote
Geert Wilders’s results may show just how strong the far right is in Europe. |
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| Le Monde |
Investigation into the slow decline of French capitalism
“Le Monde” examines in five episodes the decade that disrupted French companies. |
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| Les Echos |
The United States is massively strengthening its defence
Donald Trump announces $54 billion boost for Pentagon. The president will defend his priorities before Congress on Tuesday. |
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| Frankfurter Allgemeine |
London expresses reservations against the head of Deutsche Börse
“Unsuitable”. Merger faces exit. Federal Government: a pure entrepreneurial decision. |
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| Sueddeutsche Zeitung |
First sentence for ‘murder’ linked to an illegal car race
A Berlin court sentences two men to lifelong imprisonment for killing a 69-year-old during an illegal car race on the Ku’damm. |
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| La Repubblica |
DJ Fabio’s farewell
Euthanasia in Switzerland, “I leave this hell and pain, the State has not helped me.” |
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| Il Sole 24 Ore |
A closure facilitated by the causes with the tax authorities
There are currently 520,000 cases pending, including 50,000 in the Court of Cassation. |
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| Gazeta Wyborcza |
Sealing TV license fee
The Ministry of Culture is to refer a draft bill of the Act on a TV License Fee to the Lower Chamber of the Polish Parliament (the Sejm) today or tomorrow. Under the new regulations, cable and satellite televisions will be obliged to share their customers’ data with the Polish Post Office that will next collect the fee for the State Budget. |
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| El Pais |
Donald Trump: “We have to start winning wars again”
The President of the United States increases military expenditure by 9% at the expense of international aid and environment |
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| Expansion |
Telefónica and Vodafone to raise prices
The two giants maintain their strategy of increasing prices to provide better services. |
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| FT |
Trump pushes for $54bn rise in US defence expenditure
White House sees “dangerous world”. Boost could be biggest since 2008. |
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| The Times |
Don’t lock up low-risk paedophiles, say police
Public will be horrified, admits chief constable. |
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| The Guardian |
Trump plans huge increase in US military
Environmental and aid spending to bear brunt of $54bn hike in defence. |
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