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The European Commission on Thursday opened an investigation into AliExpress over possible breaches of European Union rules on unsafe products and child protection, among other concerns. The commission is investigating whether the Chinese-owned online marketplace is failing to adequately manage the risk of dangerous goods being sold on its platform, such as fake medicines and food. The EU executive is also looking into the possibility that AliExpress isn’t doing enough to prevent children from accessing pornographic material, a commission press release said on Thursday. The probe concerns poten…