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The French competition authority has slapped a record €500 million fine on Google for not having negotiated "in good faith" with news publishers and agencies on neighbouring rights - the remuneration for the reuse of copyrighted content they are entitled to.

The European Parliament has called for the creation of a strategy to completely eliminate cancer-causing asbestos in a bid to strengthen workers' protection and reduce exposure to this common chemical.

Portable artificial kidney is perceived as the next big thing in the field of home treatment that could stop dialysis being a full-time job for patients, but barriers to its rollout persist.

First Italy, and now France and Greece are also introducing compulsory Covid vaccination in the health and care sectors. French President Emmanuel Macron is giving workers until mid-September to be vaccinated, after which controls will be introduced. While some commentators speak out strongly for or against compulsory vaccination, others say it may not even be feasible in the health sector.

Thousands of people have taken to the streets in Havana since Sunday to protest against the government, its handling of the pandemic and the rampant economic crisis. They risk being sent to prison because such rallies are illegal in Cuba. More than 100 people have been arrested or gone missing, including foreign journalists, and at least one person has died.

The Action and Solid Party (PAS), which has close ties to pro-EU president Maia Sandu, won a clear victory in Moldova's parliamentary election on Sunday with 52.8 percent of the vote. The pro-Russian communists and socialists under Sandu's predecessor Igor Dodon trailed behind with just 27.2 percent. With their previous parliamentary majority, Dodon's supporters had blocked the formation of a government for months.

The Kremlin has published a long historical article in Russian and Ukrainian in which Putin evokes the common roots of Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians in the 'Ancient Rus' and portrays any division of this great people into several states as an accident of history. He fiercely opposes the positioning of Ukraine, supported by the West, as an antipole to Moscow.