Daylight saving time to be ended by EU

The European Union is to propose ending twice-yearly clock changes after a large-scale public survey, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said Friday.

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Norwegian PM shuffles cabinet as male ministers seek family time

Norway's Conservative Prime Minister Erna Solberg replaced her ministers for oil and transportation in a cabinet reshuffle on Friday after both men sought to spend more time with their families.

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Daylight saving time to be ended by EU

The European Union is to propose ending twice-yearly clock changes after a large-scale public survey, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said Friday.

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Norway's new oil minister says Lofoten moratorium remains in place

Norway's moratorium on oil exploration in the waters around the Arctic Lofoten-Vesteraalen-Senja archipelago will remain in place, the country's new oil minister Kjell-Boerge Freiberg told reporters on Friday.

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Amsterdam police shoot, wound stabbing suspect

Dutch police said Friday they shot and wounded a suspect at Amsterdam's main train station after a stabbing incident in which two others were injured.

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Syrian swimmer who saved refugees arrested in Greece: lawyer

Sarah Mardini, one of two Syrian sisters who saved over a dozen refugees in 2015 by pulling their sinking dinghy to Greece, has been arrested for alleged people smuggling, her lawyer said on Friday.

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Situation at 'boiling point' at refugee center on Greek island: U.N.

The United Nations refugee agency urged Greece on Friday to speed up transfers of eligible asylum-seekers from Aegean islands to the mainland, saying conditions at an overcrowded Lesbos reception center were "reaching boiling point".

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Italy may reallocate Autostrade concession in tender: cabinet official

The Italian government could strip a national concession from the country's biggest toll-road operator, Autostrade, after this month's deadly bridge collapse and reallocate a revised version of it in a European tender, a senior official said on Friday.

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Swedish Academy members deny full return to scandal-ridden body

Three Swedish Academy members, who stepped down this year in protest over a sex scandal, said on Friday they might resume participating in some important votes at the body which decides the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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2 stabbed at Amsterdam train station

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Russia challenges arbitrator's jurisdiction in Ukraine oil dispute

Russia is contesting the jurisdiction of the international Permanent Court of Arbitration in a dispute with Ukraine over oil rights in the Crimea region, the Hague-based court said on Friday.

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Israel sees slowdown in long-term Iranian deployments in Syria

Israel's defense minister described Iran on Friday as having slowed down its long-term force deployment in Syria, attributing this to Israeli military intervention as well as an economic crisis gripping Tehran as U.S. sanctions are restored.

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Three Bulgarian ministers sacked after fatal bus crash

Bulgaria's prime minister sacked three ministers on Friday over a bus accident in which 17 people died, saying politicians needed to take responsibility for a crash that triggered a public outcry over the poor state of the country's roads.

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How Ginsburg symbolizes Trump resistance

The past two years have been nothing short of a hellscape for Democrats.

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Dolphin stuck in aquarium prompts outrage

Animal rights groups in Japan have raised the alarm over a dolphin, 46 penguins and hundreds of fish and reptiles that are locked in an aquarium that has been closed for months.

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Rule change tries to cool players in 'nightmare' heat at US Open

Scorching temperatures took a toll on athletes competing in the US Open this week. For the first time in the event's history, an extreme heat policy was implemented to help tennis players cope with temperatures nearing 100 degrees Fahrenheit.

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A deadly storm is coming in Syria

In a Salisbury restaurant -- not far from the where the nerve agent Novichok had been used by what Britain suspects were Russian operatives -- I had dinner where a man I at first took to be a bouncer turned out to be a magician.

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Prince Harry joins in with 'Hamilton' cast

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Don't eat foods with liquid nitrogen

The US Food and Drug Administration issued a safety alert Thursday, warning consumers about the potential dangers of eating food prepared with liquid nitrogen.

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How to prepare for ex-President Trump

Someday, Donald Trump will become ex-President Trump. After a guilty plea from his longtime "fixer," Michael Cohen, alleging that Trump directed the commission of federal crimes, perhaps that day will arrive sooner rather than later. But whether it's a week, 18 months or more than six years away, we need to start preparing now. That's because, for all of the threat to our democracy Trump poses as president, he may pose an even bigger one as an ex-president.

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Scallop Wars are no red herring when it comes to Brexit

Forget territorial waters: Welcome to the Scallop Wars.

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As EU divisions deepen, Macron stakes out electoral turf

Emmanuel Macron's strategy for next year's European elections is taking shape and the French president sees it in stark terms - an open battle between anti-immigrant nationalists on the one hand and pro-EU 'progressives' on the other.

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Tunisian energy minister, officials sacked over graft accusations: source

Tunisia's Prime Minister Youssef Chahed sacked the energy minister, Khaled Kaddour, and four other senior officials linked to that ministry on Friday over corruption accusations, an official source said.

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Protests in Uganda after lawmakers detained at airport

Protests erupted in the Ugandan capital on Friday after police detained two lawmakers at the international airport as they prepared to travel abroad for medical care, witnesses said,

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