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Meta Platforms is fined €390 million by the European Union, claiming that the company's collection of personal data from Facebook and Instagram accounts for personalized ads was in violation of EU privacy laws.
2023-01-4

On New Year's Day, Pope Francis livestreams his message from the library of the Apostolic Palace. He states "the Virgin Mary’s motherly care encourages us to use our God-given time for building up the world and peace, not destroying it." In the Catholic Church, January 1 is the Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God.
2021-01-1

Holger Bingmann, head of the Federation of German Wholesale, Foreign Trade and Services, tells journalists German businesses have lost €3.5 billion so far this year due to Brexit.
2019-10-7

More than 72 are killed in clashes between Al-Nusra Front and Syrian government forces in Khan Tuman south of Aleppo, Syria.
2016-05-6

Pope Francis appoints Bishop Richard Moth of the British military diocese as Bishop of Arundel and Brighton, England. The diocese had been vacant since September when Bishop Kieran Conry resigned.
2015-03-25

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claims that 52 people have died as Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Islamists gain control of eight villages between Aleppo and the Turkish border.
2014-08-13

The European Central Bank cuts the prime interest rate to 0.15% and sets the deposit rate at -0.10% in an attempt to devalue the euro and boost the stagnant Eurozone economy.
2014-06-5

Syrian civil war: Rebels claim control of the strategic town of Maarrat al-Nu'man on the main road linking Damascus to Aleppo.
2012-10-10

The Syrian Army increases artillery shelling of Aleppo as the Free Syrian Army tries to consolidate its control of the city's eastern districts.
2012-08-3

A Milan court orders Fininvest, Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi's family company, to pay 560 million euros in damages to Compagnie Industriali Riunite in a long running legal dispute.
2011-07-9