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Brexit boom lifts Luxembourg insurance sector. Premiums in the non-life sector, including domestic business, jumped by 218 percent year on year thanks largely to the licensing of firms establishing bases in Luxembourg after the United Kingdom’s decision to leave the European Union, Luxembourg’s CAA said. Reuters

 

Catalan ex-leader Puigdemont can run in EU elections - court. The pro-independence former leader of Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont, can run for election to the European Parliament this month, a Madrid court has ruled. BBC News

 

Top France Télécom executives on trial for ill-treatment of employees. Read

 

Two Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar for their reporting on the Rohingya crisis have been freed. Wa Lone, 33 and Kyaw Soe Oo, 29 were released after a presidential amnesty. They spent more than 500 days in prison on the outskirts of Yangon. BBC News