FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The European Commission is planning to allow for wide-ranging exemptions from a proposed ban on substances known as PFAS, or "forever chemicals", to protect key industries, German newspaper Welt reported on Wednesday.
Citing a letter by Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to the EVP European parliamentary group, Welt reported that the commission would propose exemptions for the chemicals' use in the bloc's digital and... (continue reading...)
VALLETTA (Reuters) - Malta's attorney general has filed charges of fraud and misappropriation of funds against Central Bank of Malta Governor Edward Scicluna and Deputy Prime Minister Chris Fearne, court documents show.
More serious corruption charges have also been levelled against former prime minister Joseph Muscat, his chief of staff and a former health minister - all in connection with a hospital privatisation scandal dating back to 2015.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - The satellite unit of Elon Musk's SpaceX has secured a permit to operate in Indonesia, the communications minister told Reuters on Wednesday.
Starlink had obtained a permit to operate as an internet service provider for retail consumers and had been given the go-ahead to provide networks, having received a very small aperture terminal (VSAT) permit, minister Budi Arie Setiadi said in an... (continue reading...)
WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland was targeted by a hacking attack from Russia-linked group APT28 this week, the state-run National Research Institute (NASK) said on Wednesday.
(Reporting by Alan Charlish, Pawel Florkiewicz)
LONDON (Reuters) -Britain will expel Russia's defence attache, remove diplomatic status from some properties and limit the length of Russian diplomatic visas in response to what interior minister James Cleverly called Moscow's "malign activity".
Addressing parliament on Wednesday, Cleverly said Britain was already "an extremely challenging operating environment for Russian intelligence services" but the measures would "only serve to strengthen our... (continue reading...)
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