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Eurovision 2024 semi-finals: Fan favourites Malta and Belgium exit the competition in shock result as Israel defies pro-Palestinian crowds and goes through to the final

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Eurovision fans expressed shock as fan favourites Malta and Belgium failed to make it through Thursday’s semi-final show in a shock result.

Israel’s Eden Golan defied thousands of protestors demonstrating in Malmo calling for her to be excluded from the competition as she made it through to the final.

Latvia, Austria, Netherlands, Norway, Greece, Estonia, Switzerland, Georgia and Armenia were the other countries who made it through to Saturday’s final.

Malta was represented by Sarah Bonnici with the song Loop

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This couple have been ‘travelling the world non-stop’ for 15 years. Here they reveal why they love the US, hate Egypt, the places that surprised them – and how they’ve done it without using the bank of mum and dad

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Meet the couple who have been travelling non-stop for 15 years, visiting a total of 85 countries to date – and find out how they’ve financed their adventures without using the bank of mum and dad.

Lauren Winslow-Llewelyn, 34, and Craig Hubbard, 41, have shared their non-stop travel approach to life – valuing time over material things.

So far, their highlights include horse riding in Kyrgyzstan, winter in Arctic Norway, a black bear leaning on their van in Patagonia and

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Inside the fall of Nagorno-Karabakh – POLITICO

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KORNIDZOR, Armenia — Many of the men waiting at the Armenian border have been there for days.

When news broke on Tuesday that Azerbaijan had launched a major attack into the ethnic-Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, dozens of them pulled on warm jackets and wooly hats and drove towards the checkpoint. Now they can only watch the road, once the sole highway cutting through the mountains to the breakaway region where their families live, hoping their relatives are able to get

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Medical convoys from Nagorno-Karabakh suspended after Armenian detained by Azerbaijan – POLITICO

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The transfer of critically ill patients from Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia has been halted, local Armenian leaders said, after a man traveling with the Red Cross to seek treatment was arrested by Azerbaijani forces on war crimes charges.

Gurgen Nersisyan, the state minister of the breakaway region’s unrecognized government, announced on Saturday that Vagif Khachatryan was “taken from the checkpoint” installed by Baku on the border with Armenia and that his whereabouts are unknown. Speaking to POLITICO, one of his advisers,

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Putin speech: Google searches for ‘how to leave’ Russia surging

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More than 800 people have been arrested by security forces tonight after terrified Russians took to the streets in protest at being sent to the front lines in Ukraine after Putin ordered the mobilisation of reservists.

Demonstrations have sprung up in cities across Russia tonight in response to the announcement, with armed police dragging away people chanting anti-war slogans as resistance grows to the latest escalation in the conflict.

It is reported a total of 828 arrests have been made

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Turkey’s Erdoğan treads a fine line on Russia – POLITICO

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin are strange bedfellows — sometimes close strategic partners, but sometimes bitter regional adversaries.

For now, the Turkish leader is casting himself as a middleman, as he visited the Dolmabahçe Palace on the Bosphorus waterfront last week to personally welcome Ukrainian and Russian negotiators gathering for peace talks.

In assuming this role, Erdoğan is treading a delicate tightrope. The relationship between Turkey and

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When it comes to diplomacy, Wolfgang Ischinger means business – POLITICO

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February 16, 2022


6:13 pm

MUNICH

It was the kind of tense moment that Wolfgang Ischinger was born to defuse. The veteran German diplomat and chairman of the annual Munich Security Conference was hosting a meeting between leaders from the Balkans and senior European and American diplomats when anger bubbled up over the slow progress countries from the region were making toward joining the European Union. 

“You have to tell us if you want us or not,” Serbian President Aleksandar

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The murky world of undercover EU lobbying – POLITICO

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At first glance, EU Reporter looks like just another media outlet reporting from Brussels on the European Union.

The website publishes articles about the European Commission’s latest proposals. It offers analysis of global events, like last month’s United Nations report on climate change. It provides almost daily updates on the COVID-19 pandemic.

But the company’s promotional material tells a different story.

In a glitzy YouTube video with Queen’s “A Kind of Magic” as

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