EU blocks low-duty online booze and fags
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Booze cruising set to continue The European Court of Justice has ruled that boozers and smokers looking to get cut-price deals from countries with lower rates of duty will will not be able to buy the stuff online, the BBC reports.â¦
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Import duty contains battery-powered pensioner menace RoTM The EU has moved to restrict the number of mobility scooters available to a machine uprising on the UK streets by slapping import duty on the vehicles, the Telegraph reports.â¦
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The European Commission on Tuesday announced it had abandoned plans to ban the use of pints, pounds and miles in Britain and Ireland, in the face of overwhelming public opposition.
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China released a self-discipline pact for Chinese search engine providers to reject web porn Wednesday. The new regulation, promulgated by the Internet Society of China (ISC
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BARCELONA, Spain  - Mobile phone operators must  act before July 1 to avoid the European Union imposing lower  prices for texting or surfing the Web via mobile phones when  abroad, the bloc's top telecoms regulator said on Monday.
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The European Parliament  called on Monday for binding rules to regulate the bloc&#39;s  online music market and protect less powerful artists, but the  proposal was rejected by the bloc&#39;s executive.
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Eurocrats, terrorists vie for techno-dunce supremacy The European Commission (EC) has announced plans to frustrate terrorism by suppressing online guides on bomb-making.â¦
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LONDON, Jan 29 (IPS) - The European Parliament passed a unanimous   resolution this week urging a Europe-wide ban on incitement to  racial and  religious hatred. That specifically could include a  ban on the swastika,  the symbol adopted by the Nazis.
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Web-surfers outside the US have been blocked from visiting the official George W. Bush campaign website. UK-based internet monitoring firm Netcraft first noticed the blockage Monday morning.
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Stricter legislation Flickr's introduction of content filters in Germany last week has provoked protests in blogs and web forums globally.â¦
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Watchdog cries foul over 'dodgy' software auctions The Business Software Alliance (BSA) has begun an international clampdown against people selling illegitimate software online.â¦
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The European Union on Wednesday banned blue fin tuna fishing in the Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic for the rest of year as EU fishermen had caught the bloc's full 2007 quota of the endangered fish.
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The online video site had been blocked because it had carried material seen as insulting to the countryâs king.
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Internet searches for bomb-making  instructions should be blocked across the European Union, the  bloc&#39;s top security official said on Monday.
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Government continues its crackdown on 'unhealthy' Web content in advance of the Olympics.
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BRUSSELS, -- The European Union unveiled a new antismoking campaign that calls on governments to put both horrific and humorous pictures on cigarette packs to deter people from smoking.
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See you in court An Irish lobby group aims to dismantle Europe's laws forcing telecoms firms to retain phone and internet data on citizens. The group, Digital Rights Ireland, is taking a case both against the Irish Government and the European Directive on data retention.â¦