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First time france is re elected a president in 20 years. France has made a choice here to kind of bepro european again, to stay sort of incentris western liberal democracy model. This week end, ou lawmakers approved tough new rules for a big tak. And shrilanke is working with the international monetary fund to find a way out of an economic melt down.

Emmanuel Macron has been elected for a second term as president of France, the EU will force Big Tech to police content online more aggressively after approving a major piece of legislation, and Sri Lanka is working with the major multilateral agencies on ways to salvage the country from the current economic meltdown

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EU approves groundbreaking new rules to police Big Tech

Emmanuel Macron set to be re-elected in France

UN asks Sri Lanka to negotiate ‘debt-for-nature’ swaps to ease economic meltdown

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