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22.12 / 14:02
Helicopter
Madagascar minister swims 12 hours to reach shore after helicopter crash
Madagascar's police minister says he swam for nearly 12 hours to reach the shore after being involved in a helicopter crash at sea on Tuesday.
22.12 / 13:47
Variant
COVID: France begins vaccinating children aged 5 to 11 as Omicron variant takes hold
Vaccination for children aged five to 11 was on Wednesday opened in France.
22.12 / 02:13
Technology
NFT
Gaming
Ubisoft pursues NFT initiative with aleph.im following fan backlash
Earlier this year, gaming giant Ubisoft joined the aleph.im network as a core channel node operator after the blockchain-based storage and computing startup became a part of Ubisoft’s Entrepreneurs Lab. On Tuesday, aleph.im announced that it will offer a decentralized storage solution for Ubisoft Quartz in order to further incorporate nonfungible tokens (NFTs) into Ubisoft’s AAA games.
22.12 / 01:25
Art
Orban says Hungary will defy EU court ruling on asylum policy
Hungary will not change its immigration policies despite a recent ruling from the European Union’s top court that found them in contradiction with the bloc's laws, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said Tuesday.
22.12 / 00:57
Art
COVID in Europe: Germany & Portugal impose new measures to curb cases
Europe is once again seeing a surge of COVID-19 cases — here is our summary of the measures being taken across the continent.
21.12 / 18:45
Art
World Health Organization
WHO Europe chief to give COVID-19, Omicron update ahead of Christmas
The head of the European office of the World Health Organisation (WHO) is on Tuesday expected to give an update on the spread of the Omicron variant across the Old Continent as he visits Austria.
21.12 / 18:45
Art
COVID: New Year's Eve parties in London and Scotland scrapped amid Omicron surge
Scotland and London have both moved to cancel New Year's Eve celebrations as the United Kingdom is gripped by a surge of COVID infections, driven by the highly infectious Omicron variant.
21.12 / 14:37
business
Art
Dubai ruler ordered to pay €645 million to his ex-wife and their children
Dubai's ruler Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum was ordered on Tuesday to pay more than €640 million to his ex-wife and their children, in what is believed to be the largest divorce settlement awarded by a British court.
21.12 / 13:15
business
Health
Protest in Romania over bid to extend COVID health pass to workplaces
Thousands were expected to take to the street of Bucharest on Tuesday as Romanian MPs vote on whether to extend the use of the COVID health pass to the workplace.
21.12 / 11:49
business
Health
Queen Elizabeth II to skip Christmas trip amid Omicron surge
Queen Elizabeth II has decided not to spend Christmas at the royal Sandringham estate in eastern England amid concerns about the fast-spreading omicron variant.
20.12 / 18:25
business
Blockchain
NGO sues French and British authorities over Channel migrant boat tragedy
An NGO has filed a lawsuit against French and British authorities over their failure to rescue 27 migrants who died in the English Channel last month.
20.12 / 09:41
18.12 / 20:15
French Cup match between Paris FC and Lyon suspended after fan violence
Football violence has broken out for the second time this season in France.
18.12 / 08:31
business
Blockchain
Ethereum
Vodafone
Vodafone auctions world’s first SMS “Merry Christmas” as NFT for charity
British telco giant Vodafone has reportedly plans to auction the world’s first Short Message Service (SMS) in the form of a nonfungible token (NFT) on Dec. 21. The SMS, that reads “Merry Christmas”, was sent 29 years ago over the Vodafone network on Dec 3, 1992, and was received by Richard Jarvis, an employee at the time.
17.12 / 19:17
France to ask EU to begin legal action against UK over fishing licences
France will ask the European Commission to start legal action against the United Kingdom over post-Brexit fishing licences, the government announced on Friday.
17.12 / 09:33
Art
Conservatives
Conservatives lose England seat they've always held in new rebuke to Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson's Conservative party lost one of its strongholds in central England in a parliamentary by-election, according to official results released on Friday.
17.12 / 04:53
UPS
Platform
ICO
Future
LordToken, the Future Crypto Exchange Platform Made in France
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17.12 / 01:17
business
Blockchain
Adoption
IBM
HSBC and IBM create successful multi-ledger CBDC demo
On Thursday, HSBC and IBM announced the successful test of an advanced token and digital wallet settlement between two central bank digital currencies, or CBDCs, in a cloud environment. The experiment consisted of transactions between CBDCs, eBonds, and forex. IBM's Hyperledger Fabric and enterprise technology provider R3's Corda served as the basis of the distributed ledger facilitating the transactions.
16.12 / 21:22
covid variant
Variant
France drastically restricts travel to and from UK over Omicron COVID variant
France is to heavily tighten entry conditions for people travelling both to and from the United Kingdom in order to limit the spread of the Omicron variant, the government said on Thursday.
16.12 / 19:16
Blockchain
Digital
HSBC
IBM
Banque de France demos ledger interoperability in CBDC trials
Conducted in association with HSBC and IBM, the latest test case consisted of the issuance of a digital bond on a blockchain and its subscription with a settlement in CBDC. The programme entailed an end-to-end transactional lifecycle of digital assets, through issuance, subscription by several actors, and coupon payment involving a conversion into another currency.
16.12 / 12:39
covid variant
Variant
France to tighten entry requirements for UK arrivals over Omicron COVID variant
France is to tighten entry conditions for people travelling from the United Kingdom in order to limit the spread of the Omicron variant, a French government spokesman said on Thursday.
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