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How nostalgia is making adults buy toys, Why adults are buying toys Money Works The toy industry has a new favourite consumer and its grownups. Adults with no children have more disposable income to spend and are propping up the market through the nostalgia economy. Al Jazeera’s Yasmeen ElTahan explains.Continue Reading

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The widebody Airbus A340-600, like the ‘flying pencil’ narrowbody Boeing 757, was noted and loved by enthusiasts for its elongated shape. With Lufthansa finally bedding down the last of its fleet, the type has come to an end with its original operators. Its retirement is shadowed by the remaining commercialContinue Reading

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A covert Russian network tried to exploit last month’s riots in France to paint its government as weak and overwhelmed by immigration. The operation behind it, known as “Operation Overload”, spread videos impersonating Western media to French audiences, according to an internal EU assessment seen by Reuters. The EU saysContinue Reading

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Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn called the findings ‘outrageous and frankly insulting to the public’., The United Kingdom awarded 10.7 million pounds ($14.4m) in new public contracts to firms with links to illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, despite British government pledges to punish companies that profit fromContinue Reading

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The CSTO’s influence is declining as Armenia turns away, while former allies pursue independent partnerships., The Kremlin’s tense relationship with Armenia will be under the spotlight at a security summit in Moscow. President Vladimir Putin will chair a session of the Collective Security Council of the Collective Security Treaty OrganizationContinue Reading

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EV infrastructure provider Electroway has launched an electric truck charging facility at Marq Logistics Magna Park Lutterworth, the first phase of the company’s plan to develop a 30-site network of dedicated electric heavy goods vehicle (HGV) charging hubs in the UK. Electroway is an EV infrastructure platform established by infrastructureContinue Reading

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Under the terms of a new defense agreement between Greenland, Denmark and the United States, Greenland remains a self-governed territory of Denmark with the right to declare its independence in the future. The U.S. did not “get” Greenland, nor does it now “own” Greenland, as President Traitor 47 has misleadinglyContinue Reading