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Jacques Poujol, procurement manager of French meat supplier Spanghero, received a six-month term while a Dutch middleman received two years and two other associates received one-year suspended terms for their roles in the horsemeat racket
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06.08.2024
Frenchman gets 6-month prison term over horsemeat fraud
The steeple and spire of Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral before and during the fire of April 15, 2019
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06.08.2024
Landmarks and monuments rebuilt from ruins
Polls indicate incumbent Petro Poroshenko (left) will lose heavily to comic actor Volodymyr Zelensky in Sunday's second round of Ukraine's presidential election
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06.08.2024
Ukraine media demands access to presidential favourite
People carry goods along the "trochas" -illegal trails on the border between Cucuta in Colombia and San Antonio del Tachira in Venezuela, on April 13, 2019
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06.08.2024
First Red Cross humanitarian aid arrives in Venezuela
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A vote by the Egyptian parliament on changes to the constitution could allow President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to stay in power until 2030
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Egypt parliament to vote on extending Sisi rule
"Yellow vest" protesters in the Libyan capital say France is backing military strongman Khalifa Haftar who has launched an offensive to seize Tripoli
World 06.08.2024
'Yellow vest' Libya protesters say France backs Tripoli assault
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (C) described the vote as marred by "organised crimes" and had called for the vote to be annulled because of alleged irregularities
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Erdogan's AKP demands formal rerun of Istanbul vote
Tayeb Belaiz quit Tuesday as head of Algeria's constitutional council
World 06.08.2024
Algeria top official quits as students keep up protest
Ken Follett alongside an advertisement for his "The Pillars of the Earth" bestseller -- one of whose scenes is set in a Parisian cathedral that readers may very well assume is Notre-Dame
World 06.08.2024
'Pillars of Earth' author Follett mourns Notre-Dame
'View of the Sea at Scheveningen' (1882) was one of two Vincent van Gogh paintings recovered after 16 years
World 06.08.2024
Stolen Van Goghs due back on display after 16 years
Fighters loyal to Libya's Government of National Accord (GNA)
World 06.08.2024
UN draft resolution demands immediate Libya ceasefire
In Tuesday's court ruling, the prosecutor said that 69 defendants were sentenced to life in jail, 39 to 10 years, 23 to seven years and the rest to between three and five years imprisonment.
World 06.08.2024
Bahrain jails 138 for planning Iran-linked 'terror' group
Afghanistan is sending a massive government delegation to Qatar this week to meet Taliban officials for talks
World 06.08.2024
Hundreds of Afghan delegates to meet with Taliban in Doha
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