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☆ Factbox: Turkey's anti-Erdogan bloc vows to reverse his legacy
  + stars: | 2023-03-06 | by ( Huseyin Hayatsever Ali Kucukgocmen | Huseyin Hayatsever | Ali Kucukgocmen | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +5 min
FOREIGN POLICYThe opposition bloc will adopt the slogan of "Peace at Home, Peace in the World" as the cornerstone of Turkey's foreign policy. While promising to "work to complete the accession process" for the full membership in the European Union, the alliance has vowed to review Turkey's refugee deal of 2016 with the EU. They have also promised to establish relations with the United States with an understanding of mutual trust, and to return Turkey to the F-35 fighter jet programme. They say Turkey would maintain relations with Russia "with an understanding that both parties are equal and strengthened by balanced and constructive dialogue." They will also reform the structure and elections processes for higher courts, such as the Constitutional Court, the Court of Cassation and Council of State.
☆ New State Laws Tackle Consumer Data, Cash Bail and More
  + stars: | 2023-01-01 | by ( James Fanelli | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
California lawmakers have acted to restrict use of creative works, including song lyrics, as evidence against rappers and other artists facing criminal charges. The new year is poised to bring a litany of new state laws across the country, including ones addressing consumer-data privacy, cash bail and the use of rap lyrics as evidence in criminal trials. Over 24,000 bills were passed by state lawmakers in the U.S. in 2022, according to the Council of State Governments. Some have gone into effect, but many will take hold Jan. 1 or sometime later in 2023.
☆ Italian former Foreign Minister Frattini dies at 65
  + stars: | 2022-12-25 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: 1 min
Franco Frattini, who served twice as Italy's foreign minister and held several other cabinet posts, died on Saturday at the age of 65, Italian media reported. Frattini, who had been ill for some time with cancer, died in a Rome hospital. He was foreign minister under governments headed by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi 2002-2004 and 2008-2011 and held two other cabinet posts in governments headed by Berlusconi and Lamberto Dini in the 1990s. From 2004 to 2008 he was European commissioner for justice and at the time of his death he was president of Italy's Council of State, a consultative body that oversees public administration. He started his political activity as a member of the Socialist Party and later joined Berlusconi's center-right parties.
☆ FDA lays out plan to combat bacterial illnesses in baby formula
  + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( Brenda Goodman | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +4 min
CNN —The US Food and Drug Administration is charting a plan to enhance its surveillance of infant formula for Cronobacter bacteria. Cronobacter infections are rare, but they can be serious and even fatal, especially in newborns. Cronobacter lives in the environment, but when these infections are diagnosed in infants, they are often linked to powdered formula. Only one state, Minnesota, now requires doctors to report Cronobacter infections to the state health department. The infants had all consumed powdered formula manufactured at an Abbott Nutrition production facility in Sturgis, Michigan.
☆ Explainer: Strikes at French nuclear plants - what's at stake?
  + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( Forrest Crellin | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +4 min
Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterRolling strikes over wages by the FNME-CGT union at some plants have added to the problem. France is a net importer of electricity and the strikes will further boost power imports, particularly from Britain, the consultancy said. Power grid operator RTE warned on Tuesday that prolonged strikes further delaying the restart of reactors could have "heavy consequences" for electricity supply over the winter. Britain's National Grid has also cited maintenance issues at French nuclear reactors as a factor that could affect UK energy supplies this winter. read moreRTE still expects France's nuclear power production to rise to between 40 and 45 gigawatt (GW) a day in December and January, up from 25-30 GW at the end of October.
☆ A sentence that never ends: How probation kept a Pennsylvania man locked up through the pandemic — even after his release date
  + stars: | 2022-02-04 | by ( Charles R. Davis | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +39 min
He was still a teenager when, a year after his school went under, he graduated to a new form of state supervision. Inmates walk the hallways during a media tour of the Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 7, 2015. And such violations have bloated the probation system, with roughly 250,000 people now subject to restrictions on their freedom. Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner listens during a press conference announcing Danielle Outlaw as the new Police Commissioner on December 30, 2019 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania State Senator Katie Muth was elected in the 2018 "blue wave," defeating the incumbent Republican.
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