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theepochtimes.com | Owen Evans
ADAfter the collapse of Europe’s great hope Northvolt, the continent’s batteries are still reliant on materials from Chinese imports. 6/21/2025|Updated: 6/21/2025With an unwavering pledge to ban new petrol or diesel vehicles by 2035, the European Union’s net-zero future is wed to electric cars and to the all-important batteries that power them. But the EU’s parallel goal to be able to produce those batteries itself, and to avoid dependence on China, is in jeopardy, according to some analysts.
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1 week ago | 
theepochtimes.com | Owen Evans
Petr Pavel’s government was recently targeted by a hacking group linked to Chinese state-sponsored intelligence officers.
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1 week ago | 
theepochtimes.com | Owen Evans
New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters said the island nation needs to take ‘concrete steps to repair the relationship and restore trust.’ 6/19/2025|Updated: 6/19/2025New Zealand has cut millions of dollars in funding to the Cook Islands due to the island group’s deepening ties with China.
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theepochtimes.com | Owen Evans
Women faced life imprisonment if they decided to end a pregnancy after 24 weeks under the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act. 6/18/2025|Updated: 6/18/2025British lawmakers on June 17 voted in favor of an amendment that would decriminalise abortion in England and Wales and remove criminal penalties for women who end their pregnancies at any stage and for any reason.
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theepochtimes.com | Owen Evans
Ursula von der Leyen said that China is distorting trade with ’massive subsidies’ to ‘dominate global manufacturing and supply chains.’6/17/2025|Updated: 6/17/2025European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has said that U.S. President Donald Trump is right about broken trade rules and warned that China’s behavior has distorted world markets.
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theepochtimes.com | Owen Evans
India has ordered the inspection of all Boeing 787s after the tragic Air India crash. 6/16/2025|Updated: 6/16/2025At least 270 bodies to date have been recovered from the site of Air India’s plane crash in Ahmedabad, western India, an official has said. The plane, a Boeing 787 with 242 people onboard bound for London and identified as flight AI 171, crashed into a medical college hostel shortly after takeoff on June 12.
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theepochtimes.com | Owen Evans
Cordon sanitaire, a measure normally directed at keeping out fringe outliers, is now being used to keep out parties that are gaining majority-level support. 6/14/2025|Updated: 6/14/2025Across the European continent, despite gaining considerable proportions of the vote, populist parties are increasingly being frozen out of governing in coalitions by political opponents who regard them as extremist.
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theepochtimes.com | Owen Evans
From ocean treaties to deep-sea mining bans, leaders at the summit discussed the future of Earth’s seas. 6/14/2025|Updated: 6/14/2025World leaders gathered in Nice, France, this week for the 2025 U.N. Ocean Conference, aiming to advance and accelerate efforts to preserve marine environments. Host and French President Emmanuel Macron told countries gathered on the French Riviera that binding international agreements could help restore peace to the world’s seas.
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2 weeks ago | 
theepochtimes.com | Owen Evans
The Air India flight, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, crashed into a residential area five minutes after take off. 6/12/2025Updated: 6/12/2025An Air India plane with more than 200 people on board crashed near the airport in India’s western city of Ahmedabad on Thursday. Air India flight AI 171, a Boeing 787, crashed into a residential area five minutes after taking off at 1:38 p.m. local time, Faiz Ahmed Kidwai, the director general of the directorate of civil aviation, told The Associated Press.
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2 weeks ago | 
theepochtimes.com | Owen Evans
The CEO of SpaceX and Tesla had been feuding with the U.S. President and now says that his posts ‘went too far.’6/11/2025Updated: 6/11/2025Tech billionaire Elon Musk has expressed regret over recent posts about President Donald Trump amid a public feud between the two. “I regret some of my posts about President [Donald Trump], last week,” Musk wrote in a June 11 post on the social media platform X.
