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Europe’s top court has ruled that US search giant Google does not have to apply globally a previous ruling that it comply with requests to remove online links, limiting “de-referencing” to just European Union domains.

The landmark case stems from a legal battle waged by France to impose a “right to be forgotten” on the web.

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