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Speaking alongside the prime ministers of Denmark and Greenland, Mette Frederiksen and Jens-Frederik Nielsen, Macron said the "awakening" must focus "on asserting our European sovereignty, on our contribution to Arctic security, on the fight against foreign interference and disinformation, and on the fight against global warming."
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France announced Monday External link its will replace Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Cisco’s Webex, and Google Meet on government systems with a French alternative, as part of “insurance against future threats.”
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For people and pets alike, she sees nutrition as the first line of defense against disease.
This isn’t a case of “the more we fight corruption, the more corrupt things get, but rather the more we dig, the deeper we get,” the PLA Daily said in an editorial on the probe against Zhang, which the newspaper portrayed as a show of the party’s resolve to root out corrupt elements, however highly placed.
The decision comes against the background of a buoyant Spanish economy, falling unemployment, worker shortages in some sectors, and broad support for the measure, including from labor unions, many businesses and the Catholic Church.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
