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More than 101 women have been killed in France by their partners or ex-partners since the start of the year. The government wants to take action and has announced plans to work out concrete measures for combating femicide together with women's organisations and prevention facilities by the end of November. It has set aside a million euros for this purpose. Commentators say more must be done.

In Moscow several demonstrators have been handed down multi-year prison sentences. According to Russian news agencies one man was given a three-year prison sentence for pepper-spraying police, and a blogger has been sentenced to five years in a penal camp. Commentators criticise the sentences as unreasonably harsh.

According to the EU Environment Agency, climate change could turn the entire EU agribusiness upside down, as crop productivity in the Mediterranean countries is expected to drop while northern and western regions may experience more suitable conditions for agriculture intensification.

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Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
Lors de la délivrance du certificat relatif à force exécutoire d’une injonction de paiement définitive, le juge national ne peut pas vérifier d’office si les règles de compétence juridictionnelle ont été méconnues, même si un consommateur est concerné

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British MPs will vote on Wednesday whether to delay Brexit once again, but the government aims to call an election to stop that.

The Riga-based Nato Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence says it has uncovered loopholes on how social media is gamed to sway voters in the European elections.

Germany has comfortable margins to abandon - at least temporarily - its fiscal orthodoxy and support its society and Europe in a time of global economic uncertainty and slower growth.

Supporters of the Five Star Movement (M5S) votes yes to a new government lead by Giuseppe Conte, with 79 percent support through an online voting system, where 117,000 people were subscribed. On Wednesday Conte will go to president Sergio Mattarella to present a new government of M5S and the Democratic Party (PD). Former deputy prime minister and M5S leader Luigi Di Maio will become Italy's new foreign minister.