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Caracas crude heads for Texas

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A lethal Himalayan flood set the grimmest tone, while voters in Iceland cooled another round of European enlargement talk. In Washington, Donald Trump tied energy security to a sweeping Venezuelan oil pact, and NASA sent a new telescope to inspect the parts of the universe we still barely understand.

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The ageing Union's economy

Hoekstra's clean-tech dependence warning and the €387.8M Bull supercomputing order add concrete industrial-policy detail but do not alter the policy framework.

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Unification Church leader sentencing

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    Unification Church leader sentencing

    Sentenced to two years in prison, Unification Church leader Han Hak-ja is convicted of bribery and corruption by a Seoul court.

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