Arkansas presses ahead with its ban on using food stamps for candy and soda, starting Wednesday — despite a federal judge ruling similar restrictions in other states broke federal law.

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http://www.euronews.net/ Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, the half-brother of the King of Saudi Arabia, has died after being treated for an undisclosed illness in the United States.

It’s believed he was eighty-six years old. According to Saudi state television, his funeral will be held on Tuesday.

Prince Sultan had been operated on in a New York hospital in July this year. He had also been diagnosed with colon cancer in two thousand and four.

Succession in the Saudi royal family moves down from brother to brother since the death of the country’s founder, Ibn Saud.

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“We need to break free from our dependence on fossil fuels.”

Nadia Calviño tells #EuropeToday that the European Investment Bank is “uniquely placed to finance large-scale infrastructure” in defence and renewable energy as the wars in Ukraine and Iran continue to shock Europe’s energy system.

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On today’s #EuropeToday:

#Trump in Beijing and what that means for Europe, NATO discussions in Bucharest, and a call from the EU Commission to ban gay conversion therapies in the EU after one million citizens asked for it.

Missed it? Catch up with this one-minute recap.

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“It could create division and anti-European rhetoric.”

Bulgarian Foreign Minister Velislava Petrova defends on #EuropeToday her country’s successful push to remove the head of the Russian Orhtodox Church from the EU’s 25th sanctions package against Russia.

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