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EBB: Geert Wilders is bad news for expats … and the Dutch economy

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Sarah Nagaty: How to do Copenhagen for the weekend on a shoestring budget

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Mónica Da Silva: The best Christmas Markets in Cologne

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Don’t miss truffle season: Celebrating this incredibly rare delicacy in Italy and France

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Live-Eleven Israelis and 33 Palestinians freed as truce extendedAnother 11 Israeli hostages including three-year-old twins have been freed by Hamas tonight, Israel says - bringing the total number of released hostages to more than 50.

Volkswagen says its core VW brand is ‘no longer competitive’ financially“With many of our pre-existing structures, processes and high costs, we are no longer competitive as the Volkswagen brand,” Thomas Schaefer told staff during a meeting at the German carmaker’s headquarters in Wolfsburg, Germany, according to a post on the company’s intranet site seen by Reuters.

The nature cure: how time outdoors transforms our memory, imagination and logicWithout engaging with natural environments, our brains cease to work well. As the new field of environmental neuroscience proves, exposure to nature isn’t a luxury – it’s a necessity.

Israel-Gaza latest: Two-day truce extension agreed, say Hamas and Qatar; hostage families 'notified'Qatar's foreign ministry says the truce between Israel and Hamas has now been extended by two extra days, after earlier negotiation. Meanwhile, more hostages and prisoners are due to be freed today.

In Georgia, 'journalism is no longer considered safe'Is Georgia ready to join the European Union? The 27-member bloc will decide in December. Officials in Brussels have stressed there's room for improvement on media freedom, amid growing government pressure on journalists.

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