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29th Mar 2024

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Evidence mounts of Russian role in MH17 disaster

The missile that shot down Malaysian flight MH17 over Ukraine in 2014 was Russian-made and fired from Russian-occupied territory according to the available evidence, international investigators in The Hague said on Wednesday. The Joint Investigation Team, composed of prosecutors from the Netherlands, Australia, Belgium, Malaysia, and Ukraine, used phone taps and other evidence, adding that they planned to investigate about 100 individuals for potential criminal charges.

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Opinion

EU Modernisation Fund: an open door for fossil gas in Romania

Among the largest sources of financing for energy transition of central and eastern European countries, the €60bn Modernisation Fund remains far from the public eye. And perhaps that's one reason it is often used for financing fossil gas projects.

'Swiftly dial back' interest rates, ECB told

Italian central banker Piero Cipollone in his first monetary policy speech since joining the ECB's board in November, said that the bank should be ready to "swiftly dial back our restrictive monetary policy stance."

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