Ireland, the Netherlands, Slovenia, and Spain have threatened not to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest unless Israel is excluded from the competition.
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Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
14 Oct. 2025
Territories annexed to other countries are excluded.
Decades of underfunding and under-research mean women are still diagnosed late, treated inadequately, and left to manage conditions that could have been prevented or better addressed.
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Maria Shriver,
Time,
9 Oct. 2025
In the time since, Customs and Border Protection has prevented nearly 10,500 shipments valued at nearly $1 billion from entering the United States because of products or components that could have originated in Xinjiang.
—
Jasmin Malik Chua,
Sourcing Journal,
9 Oct. 2025
The president highlighted new European investors entering the country, but said the pace is hindered by the lack of banking and insurance facilities in the territory.
—
Mohammed Sergie,
semafor.com,
8 Oct. 2025
Gittens has also been hindered by not having a proper pre-season.
For years, technological, geographical and financial hurdles impeded wave and tide energy development.
—
Michael Smolens,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 Oct. 2025
The scandal has already impeded the effort to hold Israel accountable for the death toll in Gaza; the woman fears that anger at Israel might now lead members of the assembly to discount her story and, instead, side with Khan.
The five elements still exempt from China’s controls are largely light rare earths, which are more abundant, easier to mine and refine, and less strategically constrained than their heavier counterparts.
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Dave Smith,
Fortune,
10 Oct. 2025
Produced by the slow decay of radioactive particles, which is a natural process that occurs in all rocks, geothermal energy was long considered too expensive and geographically constrained to compete with other renewables.
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