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Matthew Chattle/Future Publishing via Getty Images Claire’s has appointed administrators in the UK and Ireland For Beth Searby, a Saturday as a teenager wasn’t complete without going to Claire’s with her friend. But that tweenage rite of passage looks uncertain as the future of the chain hangs in the balance. Beth and her friends would use their pocket money in …

Platforms like Temu and Shein specialize in selling cheap products through small parcels — millions of which enter the EU each day. Earlier this month, a European Parliament report found that “most unsafe and illegal products” arriving in the EU came via such small parcels in online commerce, “in particular” through Chinese platforms. In October last year, the European Commission …