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Pop superstar Taylor Swift surpasses Rihanna and is also reportedly the second richest musician in the world after Jay-Z. The numbers are in and now it’s official: Taylor Swift is the richest female musician in the world, with an estimated net worth of $1.6 billion (approx. €1.45bn).  She overtakes Rihanna to the top spot and now ranks second on the overall list of richest musicians, just behind Jay-Z, who has a net worth of $2.5 billion (approx. €2.2bn).  While Rihanna ($1.4 billion net worth) still holds the title of the “richest female musician of all time,” having once reached a peak…

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One bright spot was that July’s gain was revised up to 3.9 percent from a first reading of 2.9 percent. A combination of high energy prices and increased competition from abroad — mainly China — has weighed on the country’s manufacturing sector. The sectoral purchasing managers’ index compiled by S&P Global has been in negative territory for over two years now. The slowdown is particularly acute in the automotive sector. A separate data reading from Monday shows that car sales were down 4.7 percent on the year in the half of 2024. On Friday, European Union capitals voted to to…

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Euronews Culture sat down with director Caroline Clegg and actor Mohand Hasb Alrosol Abdalrahem to discuss ‘Slave: A Question of Freedom’, a bracing play about a real experience of modern slavery that is set to tour the UK. As a child, Mende Nazer was abducted from her home in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains in a slaving raid. She spent six years as a domestic slave in the capital, Khartoum, before being sent to London. Nazer documented her escape from slavery in the book “Slave: My True Story” which became the 2011 play ‘Slave: A Question of Freedom’. This year, the play…

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Ribera will be in charge of resolving a probe into Microsoft, which the Commission charged in June for linking its Teams service with its must-have office software. 4. Catching killer acquisitions Merger officials are worried about Big Tech or Big Pharma firms that scoop up small innovative rivals in deals that don’t get reviewed by regulators because the smaller firm’s revenue is too low. The Commission thought it had found a solution only for the EU’s top court to tell it to think again earlier this month. Von der Leyen has now told Ribera to “address risks of killer acquisitions…

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Now the balance of power has reversed. Macron has lost influence in Brussels following defeats in European and national elections, while Barnier’s government faces an immediate challenge to rein in the public debt and could be toppled by Marine Le Pen of the far right at any time. The freshly-reappointed von der Leyen is, meanwhile, stronger than ever. And she wants to seal the deal. Host Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil says he’s ready to sign. | Andressa Anholete/Getty Images “Having been re-confirmed, the president of the Commission thinks she has a free hand to speed up the…

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For Poland, the events in Volhynia were a brutal ethnic cleansing; in 2016, the Polish Parliament voted to recognize the mass killings of Poles as a “genocide of Polish people committed by Ukrainian nationalists in 1943-1945.”  Poland and Ukraine are close allies when it comes to defeating their common enemy Russia. | Anatolii Stepanov/Getty Images In Ukraine, however, the memory of the wartime struggles to create an independent state is that of heroism and one that inspires today’s generation fighting off Russian invaders. Levkovych, the perpetrator from Uhly, has a street named after him in a Ukrainian village near Lviv.…

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Meanwhile, Ukrainian officials said Russian forces attacked Ukraine overnight on Sunday with 87 Shahed drones and four different types of missiles. Dutch Defence Minister Ruben Brekelmans has said the Netherlands will invest €400 million in a drone development programme for Ukraine.During a surprise visit to Kyiv on Sunday he said around half of the investment would be spent in the Netherlands, with the rest split between Ukraine and other countries.”We will focus on different types of drones, so both surveillance drones, more defensive drones, but also the attack drones because we see that Ukraine needs those more offensive drones also…

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This week, we are recognizing International Plasma Awareness Week worldwide. If this is an unfamiliar event, that is precisely why it is so needed. Many people are not yet fully aware of the critical role that plasma and plasma-derived medicinal products (PDMPs) play in treating patients with rare, chronic and complex diseases, who often have few – if any – other options. Plasma is the liquid portion of blood necessary to help the body recover from injury, distribute nutrients, remove waste and prevent infection. Plasma cannot be prepared synthetically; in fact, it can only be obtained through donations from healthy…

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Representatives from the EU Parliament’s third-largest political group attended the League party’s annual gathering where migration and border protection topped the agenda. It was both a show of strength and support for Matteo Salvini.On Sunday, leaders of political forces within the EU Parliament’s far-right nationalist ‘Patriots for Europe’ group came to the 36th annual gathering of the League party in Pontida.As they took to the stage under the slogan ‘defending borders is not a crime’, they stood by the Italian party leader’s side, who is facing six years in prison in the ongoing Open Arms trial.  Surrounded by fellow League…

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Let us now lift these restrictions. I will repeat what I said in my speech at the U.N. General Assembly last month: We may keep condemning Russia’s brutal atrocities, but without efficient action against the violence, history will be the one to condemn us. And I agree with former NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg when he said we could have provided military support to Ukraine before 2022 and maybe prevented this war. I’ve been to Ukraine three times since this conflict began. On my latest trip, just a month ago, I visited a power plant reduced to rubble by missiles launched…

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