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All these campaigns were disrupted on Friday Nov. 29, it said — in between the presidential election’s first round and the parliamentary vote on Sunday Dec. 1. Two attempts were launched out of Romania itself, TikTok said. One network of 78 accounts with 1,781 followers tried to promote ultranationalist and far-right Călin Georgescu, and another of 12 accounts attempted to boost independent candidate Mircea Geoană. The networks were “very, very small networks” launched out of Romania, targeting a Romanian audience, said Brie Pegum, TikTok’s global head of product for authenticity and transparency. The Sputnik campaign included 11 accounts with close to…

Updated: 03/12/2024 – 12:15 GMT+1 Beirut had faced a series of Israeli air strikes from September this year, after the conflict between Hezbollah and Israel extended to the Lebanese capital. A ceasefire was eventually brokered in late November. Beirut had faced a series of Israeli air strikes from September this year, after the conflict between Hezbollah and Israel extended to the Lebanese capital. A ceasefire was eventually brokered in late November.

The French pharma firm is seeking to increase insulin production in Beijing as trade tensions between the EU and China simmer on. Sanofi will invest around €1bn in China to build a new insulin production site in Beijing, the French firm said in a WeChat statement.The site, which will be Sanofi’s fourth production facility in the country, is to be in an economic development zone near the capital.The move marks Sanofi’s single biggest investment in China.According to medical journal the Lancet, China now has the largest number of people living with diabetes worldwide, accounting for approximately one-quarter of the global…

Allies are keen to bolster Ukraine’s defence and footing in the war before Donald Trump retakes office in the US in just over a month. NATO allies need to focus more on delivering military assistance to Ukraine so it can stop Russia’s slow but steady advance than discuss what a possible peace deal could look like, the alliance’s chief said on Tuesday.Foreign ministers from the military alliance’s 32 member states are gathering in Brussels for a two-day summit with Ukraine high on the agenda. Secretary-General Mark Rutte told reporters in a press conference hours before the start of the summit that…

French officials were keen to emphasise that the return of the objects – part of a larger haul of over 3,000 – was a “diplomatic handover” rather than a “restitution”. France has returned three ancient artefacts to Ethiopia, dating back between one and two million years. The items, which include two prehistoric stone axes and a stone cutter, were handed over by French foreign minister Jean-Noël Barrot to Ethiopia’s tourism minister Selamawit Kassa in a symbolic ceremony at the National Museum of Ethiopia last week.The three artefacts were part of a collection of around 3,500 items stored at the French embassy…

Should Barnier lose the vote, as is expected, he will become the shortest-serving prime minister in modern French history. The EU’s former chief Brexit negotiator was appointed by President Emmanuel Macron in September and given the impossible mission of passing a slimmed down budget without a parliamentary majority. Barnier is set to give an interview on French television on Tuesday evening, in what could be a last-ditch appeal to lawmakers to refrain from toppling the government. If the parliament does oust Barnier, it would be the first time a French government has suffered the humiliation of losing a no-confidence vote…

“Most redundant services should be restored, and will hopefully not be affected further,” the company said. Finnish authorities are currently investigating the incident together with the network company, Transport and Communications Minister Lulu Ranne said on Tuesday. “We take the situation seriously,” she added. This latest disruption comes two weeks after an incident involving two undersea fiberoptic communication cables in the Baltic Sea — one between Finland and Germany and another between Sweden and Lithuania — where breaches sparked suspicions of sabotage.

Sky News’ deputy political editor Sam Coates and Politico’s Jack Blanchard share their daily guide to the day ahead in politics in under 20 minutes. Did we get a window into the prime minister’s attempt at a close relationship with Donald Trump on Monday when he said we will invest “more deeply than ever” in the special relationship with the US? It comes as Donald Trump announced his pick for US Ambassador to the UK. Also, who is the new cabinet secretary and head of the civil service, Sir Chris Wormald? 👉Listen to Politics At Jack And Sam’s on your…

France’s famous cathedral will reopen Saturday after five years of reconstruction following a devastating fire in 2019. US president-elect Donald Trump will attend the reopening ceremony at France’s iconic Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris this weekend, in his first foreign trip since winning re-election in November.Notre Dame will reopen in a lavish ceremony attended by around 50 heads of state and government after it was nearly destroyed by a fire in 2019.“It is an honour to announce that I will be travelling to Paris, France, on Saturday to attend the re-opening of the Magnificent and Historic Notre Dame Cathedral, which…

Roxana Mînzatu’s first working day as EU Commissioner saw member states fail to agree on new EU laws on internships – but she said abandoning laws intended to protect traineees’ workplace rights would be “out of the question”. The EU’s newly employment commissioner Roxana Mînzatu on Monday vowed to press on with new rules to offer interns equal job rights – despite member states failing to agree on even a watered-down text. Mînzatu’s first working day as Commissioner Vice-President for Social Rights and Skills saw her defending Brussels plans to improve the working conditions of over 3 million trainees, which she argued…