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The multinational technology company Apple has been ordered to repay up to 13 billion euros ($14.5 billion) in tax benefits back to the Republic of Ireland due to an "illegal" breach of EU state aid rules, confirmed European Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager from Brussels, Tuesday.
Business in Paris was hit badly after the terror attacks last month that claimed the 130 lives. But, as David Pollard reports, there's hope the deeper impact on French growth will only be temporary.
Images of supporters at the Roi Baudouin stadium, after the Euro 2024 qualifier between Belgium and Sweden was abandoned at half-time following a "terrorist attack" in Brussels which left two Swedish nationals dead. IMAGES
Lawyers, security personnel and the members of the press arrive outside the courtroom in Brussels where the trial of the suspects in the March 2016 jihadist attacks opens today. The attacks on the Belgian capital's metro system and airport left 32 dead and became the country's worst peacetimes massacre. IMAGES
Images of the arrivals of lawyers at a Brussels court about to deliver its judgement for 14 people accused of having helped members of the jihadist cell behind the attacks in Paris of 13 November 2015. The judgement comes a day after the verdict of a special court in Paris which, after ten months of hearings, sentenced on Wednesday evening 20 men (six of whom were tried in absentia) involved in the worst acts of violence committed in France since the end of the Second World War. IMAGES
King Philippe of Belgium, Queen Mathilde and Prime Minister Alexander De Croo pay their respects to the victims of terrorism on the 5th anniversary of the Brussels attacks. IMAGES