Day: 23 May 2018

Turkish Officer Gets Final Asylum in Greece

23May

By Alan LorenzNo Comments

Turkish Officer Gets Final Asylum in Greece

Turkish Officer Gets Final Asylum in Greece. One of the eight Turkish officers who had fled to Greece after the failed coup in 2016 was finally granted asylum. That has determined the highest Greek administrative judge, Greek media reports. The ruling is probably a harbinger for the course of the proceedings against the seven other officers. The Greek court previously blocked delivery of the eight officers. Turkish President Erdogan has repeatedly asked for the extradition of the eight men who, according to Ankara, were involved in the attempt to overthrow his government. In Turkey, the military has already been found guilty of high treason, says iStorify. Difficult relationship The stay of the military in Greece puts the already difficult diplomatic relations between Turkey an...

Do Russians want to Live in a Country without Truth?

23May

By Alan LorenzNo Comments

International, News, Russia

Do Russians want to Live in a Country without Truth?

Relatives of MH17 victims get an open letter to the Russian authorities and state media. According to the eWorldNews, they have done everything to sow doubt and obscure the truth about the air disaster. If the Russians want to live in a country where the truth no longer exists, they ask themselves. The letter is on the website of the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta. He has been signed by a dozen surviving relatives from Australia, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. They write that after almost four years they are still struggling with the sudden and brutal loss of their loved ones and the questions that have not yet been answered. Russian people not guilty "We do not blame the Russian people for what happened," the letter writers say. "We are not against you, and we ho...

US Investigates Foreign Ailments Employee Consulate China

23May

By Alan LorenzNo Comments

Asia, China, International, News, US

US Investigates Foreign Ailments Employee Consulate China

US Investigates Foreign Ailments Employee Consulate China. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo sent a medical team to China to investigate mysterious ailments of a government official. According to The Week News, the American would show signs of mild brain damage. The employee of the consulate in Guangzhou recently complained about annoying sounds and other inconveniences, such as an oppressive feeling. As far as we perceive, there are no complaints from others. The situation is reminiscent of the acoustic attacks on US embassy personnel in Cuba. Dozens of American diplomats and their relatives were recalled last year when they suffered from, among other things, hearing loss, headaches, dizziness and nausea. According to the US, Cuba carried out targeted attacks with inaudible sou...

Run Away Ebola Patients in Congo Found Dead

23May

By Alan LorenzNo Comments

Congo, International, News

Run Away Ebola Patients in Congo Found Dead

Two Ebola patients who had run away from a hospital in the Congolese city of Mbandaka were found dead today. Another patient, who had fled the hospital on Saturday, was found alive that same day. The three patients were in quarantine. The head of MSF's mission in the city reacted to the incident. The hospital is not a prison, he said, the patients cannot be locked up, says eMedium. The report about the fledged patients coincides with the warning from the World Health Organization that the fight against the highly contagious disease has reached a critical point. It is the ninth time that Ebola erupted in Congo. In the coming weeks, it must be clear whether the disease can be kept under control. So far, 27 Congolese have succumbed to Ebola. Medics have drawn up a list of 628 peopl...

Agriculture and Dirty Rivers: Mark Rutte will do this in India

23May

By Alan LorenzNo Comments

Asia, Business, India, News, UK

Agriculture and Dirty Rivers: Mark Rutte will do this in India

Agriculture and Dirty Rivers: Mark Rutte will do this in India. India: the land of the Taj Mahal, Bollywood and curry. It is the second largest economy in Asia and a home for 1.3 billion inhabitants. Prime Minister Mark Rutte will visit this week for a trade mission. And he is accompanied by a large delegation of 131 Dutch companies and four ministers. Such a trade mission is pretty lucrative for Dutch companies. During a visit to China last April, 248 million euros were contracted. Rutte will talk to Prime Minister Modi in India about the impending steel war with the United States and negotiations on a trade agreement between the EU and India. The two also spoke in The Hague last year. Rutte gave Modi a gift as a present, reports eBuzzFeed. India is looking for investments, and ...

Record Number of Britons Applying for German Nationality

23May

By Alan LorenzNo Comments

Germany, Local, News, UK

Record Number of Britons Applying for German Nationality

A record number of Britons received German nationality last year: 7493, against 2865 in 2016, and only 622 in 2015, reports the German statistical office. The connection with the approaching Brexit is obvious: 2016 was the year that the British voted in an election to leave the European Union. In the past two years, a total of 10,362 Britons were German nationals, and that is more than double that in the fifteen years before: between 2000 and 2015 there were almost 5100, published by the News Tribune. About nine percent of Britons who received a German passport do not live in Germany, but have a connection with the country, for example, who fled the Nazis in the 1930s and 1940s. The largest group of foreigners who received German nationality were, just like in previous years, th...

Woman Gets Lifelong for Sadistic Attack with Sulfuric Acid

23May

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Local, News, UK

Woman Gets Lifelong for Sadistic Attack with Sulfuric Acid

Woman Gets Lifelong for Sadistic Attack with Sulfuric Acid. A South African woman who doused her Dutch ex-boyfriend with sulfuric acid, has to go into the cell for life. The British judge has determined that. After 12 years she is eligible for early release, writes CNN News. The woman, Berlinah Wallace, had a relationship with Mark van Dongen from Brabant. In September 2015, he went to the Wallace apartment in Bristol to put an end to the link. He stayed with her. When he lay in bed, the woman threw a glass of acid over him. The 29-year-old Van Dongen got paralysed on his neck and was in a coma for four months. He lost his left leg, an eye and an ear. Fifteen months after the attack, he underwent euthanasia in Belgium. Wallace was acquitted of murder and manslaughter, but the co...

Malaysia Stops the Search for Missing MH370

23May

By Alan LorenzNo Comments

Asia, International, Malaysia, News

Malaysia Stops the Search for Missing MH370

Malaysia Stops the Search for Missing MH370. The new government of Malaysia will stop the search for the missing plane MH370 next week. The minister of transport says that the contract with the American company Ocean Infinity has been extended until Tuesday and then ends. According to the City News Journal, Flight MH370 disappeared on 8 March 2014, when it was en route from the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Probably the Malaysia Airlines aircraft crashed in the Indian Ocean. On the French island of La Réunion and the African continent, several fragments washed up that probably come from the plane, but nothing else has been recovered from the aircraft. The new Malaysian Prime Minister, Mahathir Mohamad, who was elected two weeks ago, had already announced that he wou...

Journalists Visited North Korea Nuclear Test Location

23May

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International, News, North Korea

Journalists Visited North Korea Nuclear Test Location

Journalists Visited North Korea Nuclear Test Location. A group of foreign journalists went to a remote area in North Korea to witness the dismantling of a nuclear test site. At the last moment, eight reporters from South Korea also received permission to travel to Punggye-Ri. The journalists boarded the train for the first part of the journey, whose windows are blinded. They were told not to open the windows during the trip, writes Town News. The American, British, Chinese and Russian journalists gathered in the North Korean port city of Wönsan last night. A South Korean government plane flew its journalists to the town this morning. The group will witness a formal closing ceremony of the test location, which takes place tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, depending on the weath...

American Writer Philip Roth Died in Manhattan Hospital

23May

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International, News, US

American Writer Philip Roth Died in Manhattan Hospital

The American writer Philip Roth died in a hospital in Manhattan. The chronicler of society and Jewish life in the US was 85 years old, reports The English News. Roth made his debut in 1959 with the collection of stories Farewell, Columbus. He has written more than thirty books, including the sexually revolutionary novel Portnoy's complaint and American pastoralism, for which he won a Pulitzer prize in 1998. He was for years as a contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature, but he did not receive it. He did win several other prestigious awards, such as the National Book Award (twice), the Pen / Faulkner Award (three times) and the Man Booker International Prize. American trilogy American Pastoral, I was married to a Communist, and The human blemish is together called the Americ...