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Google’s Paris office raided by police in tax probe
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Google’s Paris offices have been raided by hundreds of French investigators—the search giant is suspected of avoiding tax in the country to the tune of €1.6 billion (~$ 1.78 billion, £1.22 billion).

The French financial prosecutor’s office (Le parquet national financier, PNF) which carried out the raid in the early hours of Tuesday...

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Paris climate negotiations produce an agreement
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After a week of tense negotiations, the 195 countries that met in Paris agreed to the text of a historic climate change agreement late Saturday. The accord is not itself an end game, but it lays out the road the world will have to travel in order to limit the harm of climate change.

The international agreement states that nations will aim to limit “the...

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Bill Gates to reportedly unveil ‘biggest’ clean energy fund ever at Paris climate talks
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Reports on the upcoming Paris climate talks are stating that Bill Gates’ next big project will be focusing on clean energy. According to ClimateWire, Gates will announced the “world’s largest clean energy research and development partnership” on Monday. “The multibillion-dollar announcement will come at the opening day of landmark U.N. climate change negotiations in the French...
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New York Times’ latest VR video focuses on Paris vigils after the attacks
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The latest New York Times video developed for its virtual reality app is focused on Paris vigils since last week’s terrorist attacks. In the video, the Times interviews several of the city’s residents, including one man whose friend died at the Bataclan, a concert he was also to attend before he decided not to go at the last minute....
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