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28th Mar 2024

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Alleged killer of British MP 'felt affiliated' to IS

Britain has charged with terrorism the man alleged to have stabbed to death MP David Amess last week. The 25-year old Ali Harbi Ali, a Londoner who was the son of an ex-media adviser to a Somalian prime minister, "considered himself affiliated to Islamic State", a banned extremist group, British prosecutor James Cable said Thursday. Amess' family urged the British public to "set aside hatred" in its reaction.

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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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