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Calling Zagreb Investors: Be featured in The Great TechCrunch Survey of European VC

TechCrunch is embarking on a major project to survey the venture capital investors of Europe, and their cities. Our <a target=”_blank” href=”https://forms.gle/k4Ji2Ch7zdrn7o2p6”>survey of investors in Zagreb will capture how Croatia is faring, and what changes are being wrought amongst investors

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Nicolas Sarkozy, Former French President, Convicted Of Corruption – NPR

Nicolas Sarkozy, Former French President, Convicted Of Corruption  NPR Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy sentenced to jail in historic ruling  CNN France’s Sarkozy convicted of corruption, sentenced to jail  The Associated Press Former French President Sarkozy Convicted in Corruption Trial  The Wall Street Journal

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Former French President Sarkozy Found Guilty Of Corruption, Sentenced To Jail

Nicolas Sarkozy, who served as president from 2007 to 2012, was convicted of bribery and influence peddling. He was sentenced to three years in jail, with two of the years suspended.

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The Station: Lucid Motors, Joby Aviation take the SPAC path and Sergey Brin’s airship ambitions

The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every weekend in your inbox.  Hi friends and new readers, welcome back to The Station, a newsletter dedicated

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Melania Trump is out of the White House, but she left her mark on its public spaces – The Washington Post

Melania Trump is out of the White House, but she left her mark on its public spaces  The Washington Post

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China Uses Expulsions, Pandemic to Disrupt Foreign Journalists, Report Says

Conditions for foreign journalists in China worsened dramatically last year as authorities stepped up harassment of reporters and their sources, expelled correspondents and used the pandemic to hinder reporting, a survey by the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China found.

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Former French President Sarkozy Convicted in Corruption Trial

Nicolas Sarkozy was found guilty of trying to bribe a magistrate, becoming the first president in the history of France’s post-World War II republic to face prison time.

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Queen’s husband Prince Philip moved, to undergo heart tests: palace

Queen Elizabeth II’s 99-year-old husband Prince Philip on Monday left the private London hospital where he had spent nearly two weeks to have heart tests and treatment at another hospital, Buckingham Palace said. Royal officials said the Duke of Edinburgh,

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World’s first COVAX jab injected as US eyes J&J rollout

Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo on Monday became the first recipient of a coronavirus vaccine under the global Covax scheme, as US health workers prepared to distribute nearly four million doses of the single-shot Johnson & Johnson jab. Covax, a scheme

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Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy found guilty of corruption and sentenced to prison

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been handed a one-year prison term and two-year suspended sentence after being found guilty of corruption and influence peddling.

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