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A spy ring – and a love triangle – podcast

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 14 March

Dan Sabbagh reports on three Bulgarian nationals found guilty of spying for Russia in a string of plots around Europe

On Friday, three UK-based Bulgarian nationals accused of spying for Russia were found guilty of espionage charges at the Old Bailey in London.

“It begins with a simple request,” Dan Sabbagh , the Guardian’s defence and security editor, tells Michael Safi . “A request from one of the world’s most wanted men.”

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Azerbaijan and Armenia strike deal to end decades-long conflict

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 13 March

Caucasus neighbours agree final two terms of draft peace treaty over disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region

Azerbaijan and Armenia have successfully wrapped up peace talks aimed at resolving their decades-long conflict.

The foreign ministries of the Caucasus neighbours say a peace treaty has been agreed in what would be in a breakthrough in a region where Russia, the EU, the US and Turkey all jostle for influence.

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‘Wake-up call’: Measles cases doubled in Europe last year, say WHO and Unicef

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 13 March

Joint analysis of measles cases reveals Covid pandemic resulted in misinformation and vaccination delays

Cases of measles doubled last year in the European region, climbing to the highest level in nearly three decades, after the Covid-19 pandemic caused delays in routine vaccination and rampant misinformation, the World Health Organization and Unicef have said.

A joint analysis published on Thursday said 127,350 cases of measles, resulting in at least 38 deaths, were reported last year across the region, which includes 53 countries in Europe and Central Asia. In the vast majority of cases, those infected were unvaccinated or had an unknown vaccination status.

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Donatella Versace hails brother as she bows out as creative director

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 13 March

Sister of Gianni who took over Italian label after his murder in 1997 will become chief brand ambassador at Versace

For the first time in almost 50 years, Versace will no longer be designed by a Versace.

Three decades after she started working for the company – and 27 years after she stepped into the role of creative director following the murder of her brother, Gianni – the designer Donatella Versace has announced she is to step down from her role at the Italian brand from the end of March.

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Ireland could lose pharma tax to US after Trump accusations, experts warn

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 13 March

Predictions that US firms could retain manufacturing plants in Ireland but move profits back to America

US pharmaceutical companies based in Ireland are more likely to shift profits back to the US than close manufacturing plants after Donald Trump accused Ireland of stealing American tax and jobs , experts say.

Aidan Regan, a professor of political economy at the University College Dublin, said the US president was right to call out the trade imbalance created by US pharmaceutical companies in Ireland, arguing the warning signs have been there for years.

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Donald Trump threatens 200% tariff on EU wine and champagne

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 13 March

US president says levy on alcohol imports would be retaliation for ‘nasty’ 50% tariff imposed on bourbon whiskey

US politics live – latest updates

Donald Trump has threatened a 200% tariff on wine and champagne from EU countries, in the latest threat of escalation in the global trade war started by the US president against the country’s biggest trading partners.

Trump said in a post on Thursday on his Truth Social platform that the tariffs on all alcoholic products from the bloc would be retaliation for a “nasty” 50% levy on bourbon whiskey announced by the EU.

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Ukrainian soldier praised for saving life of stabbing victim in Venice

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 13 March

Twenty minutes after arriving on holiday in Italian city, Yanis Tereshchenko drew on experience of war to intervene

A Ukrainian soldier who insists on always carrying a first-aid kit – even while on holiday – has been praised for saving the life of a stabbing victim during a trip in Venice, Italy.

Yanis Tereshchenko , a 32-year-old teacher who enlisted in the Ukrainian army’s third assault brigade immediately after Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, was on his way to his hotel with his wife and his five-year-old son in the Rialto district when he witnessed an altercation between two young men.

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Woman who lived to age 117 had genes keeping her cells ‘younger’, study shows

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 13 March

Maria Branyas Morera, US-born supercentenarian who died in Spain last August, found to have microbiota of an infant

The US-born woman who was the world’s oldest living person before she died in Spain last August at age 117 once attributed her longevity to “luck and good genetics”. And, evidently, Maria Branyas Morera was right.

A study of Branyas’s microbiome and DNA that scientists began conducting before her death reportedly determined that the genes she inherited allowed her cells to essentially feel and behave as if they were 17 years younger than they actually were. And Branyas’s microbiota – which primarily refers to the bacteria in people’s guts that has a role in keeping them healthy – mirrored that of an infant, according to the research led by University of Barcelona genetics professor Manel Esteller, a leading expert on ageing.

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Russia wary of proposed Ukraine ceasefire plan as US talks begin

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 13 March

Kremlin aide says proposed 30-day truce would only provide brief reprieve for Ukraine troops

Russia-Ukraine war – latest news updates

Russia has criticised a proposed US-Ukraine ceasefire, saying it would merely give Ukrainian forces a reprieve, as Donald Trump’s envoy, Steven Witkoff, arrived in Moscow for peace talks with the Kremlin.

The Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said he had told the US national security adviser, Mike Waltz, that Moscow viewed the proposed 30-day ceasefire as “nothing more than a short reprieve for Ukrainian forces”.