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Sweden allows protest burning Torahs and Bibles outside Israeli Embassy

Florida Report Daily July 19, 2023

  Swedish authorities have approved a protest involving the burning of Torahs and Bibles outside the Israeli Embassy in Stockholm, Sweden’s national radio broadcaster reported on Friday. A person who has applied to hold a public gathering on Saturday to burn the holy books has been granted

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Erdogan intent on taking back Istanbul after presidential victory

Florida Report Daily May 31, 2023

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has stretched his rule into a third decade after Sunday’s presidential election victory. His achievement, however, fell short of the city of Istanbul – a strategic and personal crown jewel the leader is determined to take back in 10 months’ time. Speaking on top of a campaign bus outside his Istanbul residence on Sunday, […]

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Newly released doctor’s letters show Adolf Hitler’s fear of illness

Florida Report Daily June 5, 2022

The Swiss descendent of one of Adolf Hitler’s doctors has released details of letters that show how he treated the Nazi dictator for voice problems, the newspaper NZZ am Sonntag reported on Sunday. The letters show Hitler’s fear of serious illness. “If there is something bad, I absolutely have to know,” Hitler told the doctor […]

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Finland formally confirms intention to join Nato

Florida Report Daily May 15, 2022

Finland has formally confirmed it intends to join Nato, abandoning decades of military non-alignment in a historic policy shift triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “The president and the government’s foreign policy committee have agreed that after consulting parliament, Finland will apply for Nato membership,” president, Sauli Niinistö, told a press conference. “A

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Russia hits rail, fuel facilities in attacks deep in Ukraine

Florida Report Daily April 25, 2022

Russia unleashed a string of attacks against Ukrainian rail and fuel facilities Monday, striking crucial infrastructure far from the front line of its eastern offensive. Meanwhile, two fires were reported at oil facilities in western Russia, not far from the Ukrainian border. It was not clear what caused the blazes. As both sides in the […]

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Man in Germany gets 90 Covid-19 shots to sell forged vaccination cards

Florida Report Daily April 4, 2022

A 60-year-old man allegedly had himself vaccinated against Covid-19 dozens of times in Germany in order to sell forged vaccination cards with real vaccine batch numbers to people not wanting to get vaccinated themselves. The man from the eastern Germany city of Magdeburg, whose name was not released in line with German privacy rules, is […]

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EC, EIB sign InvestEU agreements as part of stimulus package

Florida Report Daily March 8, 2022

The European Commission and the European Investment Bank (EIB) have signed InvestEU agreements as part of the bloc’s stimulus package. The package aims to help EU member states recover from the coronavirus crisis. The EC describes the InvestEU programme as a vital pillar in the bloc’s “largest ever stimulus package to recover from the COVID-19 […]

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Russia continues to supply gas to Europe with a question mark

Florida Report Daily March 8, 2022

As Russia continues to supply gas to Europe via pipelines, it is also warning that deliveries to Germany via Nord Stream 1 could be stopped. Moscow stressed that it could cut deliveries to Germany via the pipeline following Berlin’s recent decision to halt the launch of the completed Nord Stream 2 pipeline, Reuters reports. Gascade, […]

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EU aims to cut Russian gas use by two thirds this year

Florida Report Daily March 8, 2022

The European Union has presented a new proposal intended to end the bloc’s dependency on Russian gas completely in the long run, while drastically cutting its consumption as soon as this year. “We must become independent from Russian oil, coal and gas”, European Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen, declared in a statement issued today. […]

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EU prepares new batch of sanctions against Russian oligarchs

Florida Report Daily March 8, 2022

The European Commission has prepared a fresh batch of sanctions against Russia and Belarus, the latest move by the EU to increase the economic pressure on Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine. The new sanctions expand on the existing list of Russian oligarchs who have already had their European assets frozen and are not allowed […]