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The French government is being sued for failing to outlaw bottom trawling in Marine Protected Areas.

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The French government has been formally asked by the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) and Defense des Milieux Aquatiques (DMA) to address its noncompliance with EU and French regulations pertaining to bottom trawling, one of the most damaging fishing methods. These regulations are obviously broken by allowing this practice to continue in some of France's most biodiverse and endangered marine areas. The NGOs claim that this situation puts the long-term sustainability of the fisheries in jeopardy in addition to compromising the integrity of these places. Legal action will be taken in a French court if the government fails to appropriately respond to this formal request. The request specifically targets two maritime protected areas, Chausey and Bancs des Flandres, where bottom trawling is causing habitat destruction. A major factor in the decline of marine biodiversity is bottom trawling, which is the practice of dragging weighted nets across the seabed. It unintentionally captu

Oil is expected to drop for a third week as concerns about demand mount.

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                                                                                     Source REUTERS  Oil is expected to drop for a third week as concerns about demand mount. November 10, LONDON (Reuters) - Although oil prices increased on Friday, they are expected to decline for a third week due to decreasing demand and the focus of the market on OPEC and its allies this month for a crucial meeting that will decide the group's next course of action on production. At 1109 GMT, the January contract for Brent crude was up 84 cents, or 1.1%, at $80.85 a barrel, while the December contract for U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude was up 78 cents, or 1%, at $76.52. Each contract is expected to decline by roughly 5% each week. "Concerns about demand have replaced the fear of production outages related to the Middle East conflict," stated Commerzbank. This week's weak Chinese economic data heightened concerns about declining demand. Furthermore, Chinese refiners, who purc

To get Epic to release Fortnite on the Play Store, Google promised them $147 million.

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                                                                                       Source Theverge.com To get Epic to release Fortnite on the Play Store, Google promised them $147 million.  Google feared that a "contagion" of defecting developers might have reduced its Android income by billions. In court, Google acknowledged that Epic received a $147 million offer to release its popular game Fortnite on the Google Play Store for Android smartphones. The agreement, which was authorized and sent to Epic but rejected, according to Google's VP of Play Partnerships Purnima Kochikar, called for the money to be paid to the game publisher in three years' worth of "incremental funding" that would have ended in 2021. The intention was to stop a possible "contagion" of well-known programs avoiding Android's official store and, consequently, Google's hefty in-app purchase costs. 2018 saw the direct release of Fortnite on Android by Epic via its we