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May Wants To ‘Explore All Options’ To Break Deadlock Brexit
25Oct By Alan LorenzNo Comments
UK, News, Politics

May Wants To ‘Explore All Options’ To Break Deadlock Brexit

May Wants to 'Explore all options' to Break deadlock Brexit. British Prime Minister Theresa May told the British Parliament on Monday that she is prepared to "examine all permissible choices" to break the deadlock in the talks about the exit of the United Kingdom (UK) from the European Union.   A Brexit deal must be on the table before 29 March 2019, after which the 21-month transition period starts. The main concerns in the discussions on the new relationship between the UK and the EU are the rights of EU citizens in the UK and British in the EU, the outstanding bill that the UK still has to pay and the border between Northern Ireland and Ireland. May said Monday to the MPs that the deal is now around 95 percent, but that the Irish border is still a "pretty bottleneck"...
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London Wants Extradition of Russian Suspects in Skripal Case
6Aug By Alan LorenzNo Comments
Local, News, Russia, UK

London Wants Extradition of Russian Suspects in Skripal Case

London Wants Extradition of Russian Suspects in Skripal Case. The British government is going to ask Russia to deliver two men to Britain. They are speculated of engaging an attack with the deadly nerve gas Novichok.   According to the newspaper The Guardian, which raises sources from the government and secret service, the text of the extradition request has been drawn up and is ready to be sent to Russia. The two are suspected of committing the attack with the nerve gas on Russian former double-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. Novichoke is a chemical weapon that was once developed in the Soviet Union. Both survived the attack but were ill for months. Reports last month that the British police had identified the Russian suspects behind the attack, the British Secretary ...
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Sevilla and Manchester United Each Tie a New Goalkeeper
4Jul By Alan LorenzNo Comments
Sports, News, UK

Sevilla and Manchester United Each Tie a New Goalkeeper

Top clubs Sevilla and Manchester United have both secured the services of a new goalkeeper. Sevilla contracted the Czech goalkeeper Tomas Vaclik (FC Basel) for three seasons, Manchester United picked the 35-year-old Lee Grant away from the relegated Stoke City. The 29-year-old Vaclik, a twenty-time Czech international, stood 169 times in the last four seasons at FC Basel. Previously, he also defended the colours of Viktoria Zizkov (2010-2012) and Sparta Prague (2012-2014) in his own country. Three Swiss titles and one cup are on his list of achievements. Last season he achieved the eighth-finals of the Champions League with Basel surprisingly. At Sevilla, the previous season disappointing seventh in Spain, he will compete in goal with Sergio Rico. Manchester United had Lee Grant sign ...
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Two People Poisoned: British Anti-Terror Police Takes Over Research
4Jul By Alan LorenzNo Comments
UK, Local, News

Two People Poisoned: British Anti-Terror Police Takes Over Research

Two People Poisoned: British Anti-Terror Police Takes Over Research. In the English county of Wiltshire, two people were admitted to the hospital on Saturday night after being revealed to an "unknown substance" in Amesbury, more than ten kilometres north of Salisbury.   In that city, on 4 March the former Russian double spy Sergej Skripal and his daughter Joelia were poisoned. On Tuesday afternoon it became known that the anti-terror units of the police had taken over the investigation. Experts in chemical weapons examine samples of the "unknown substance". The two patients, a man and a woman around the age of 40, were found unconscious in their home. They are being cared for in the Salisbury hospital, their situation is worrying, according to a spokesperson for the police, says th...
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British Exam Board OCR Fined £175,000 for Shakespeare Error
2Jul By Alan LorenzNo Comments
Local, News, UK

British Exam Board OCR Fined £175,000 for Shakespeare Error

British Exam Board OCR Fined £175,000 for Shakespeare Error. A British graduation agency is fined £175,000 due to a mistake in the English Literature exam, posted by Citi News.   "How does Shakespeare see how Tybalt's hatred towards the Capulet family affects the outcome of Romeo and Juliet?" British students probably thought about this question for a long time in their final exam in English literature last year. Not that The Bard had made it so difficult in his tragic love story, but the compiler of the exam had been mistaken in the family feud. An expensive mistake, because the regulator filed a record fine of £175,000 yesterday. Tybalt, Julia's cousin, belongs to the Capulet clan, so the question should have been "How does Shakespeare show how Tybalt's hatred towards the Montag...
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Google Trains A Machine To Predict The Time Of Death
21Jun By Alan LorenzNo Comments
UK, International, News, Technology

Google Trains A Machine To Predict The Time Of Death

Google Trains a machine to Predict the Time of Death. Artificial intelligence from Google can predict how long to stay in a hospital, how likely it is for new admission and even when the patient will die.   According to Google, the system is more accurate than current solutions and costs less time and effort, Bloomberg and Vital News reports Tuesday. The news agency relies on research results published by Google in collaboration with Stanford University in Nature. Hospitals already make risk analyses of patients themselves, but there is a lot of manual work involved. All available information must be entered correctly into the system, which would take 80 percent of the time of the full analysis. The artificial intelligence of Google, however, works by a neural network. As a resul...
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No Breakthrough On US Import Duties At G7
11Jun By Alan LorenzNo Comments
US, Business, Canada, Europe, France, Germany, International, Italy, Japan, Mexico, News, UK

No Breakthrough On US Import Duties At G7

No Breakthrough on US Import Duties at G7: The countries of the G7 have not been able to make agreements about the import duties that the United States has recently forced on the other states. However, it has been agreed to stay in conversation with each other.   The leaders of Germany, France, Great Britain, Japan, Italy and Canada showed Trump in the common talk in Quebec in Quebec all the figures showing that the US import levies are inadequate for trade. Trump replied to his conversation partners by coming up with their values to prove the contrary, reports FOX News Point. After the big conversation, Trump met with French President Emmanuel Macron and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. After the conversation with Macron, both leaders seemed carefully optimistic about pos...
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Agriculture and Dirty Rivers: Mark Rutte will do this in India
23May By Alan LorenzNo Comments
Business, Asia, 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 ...
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Record Number of Britons Applying for German Nationality
23May By Alan LorenzNo Comments
UK, Germany, Local, News

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...
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Woman Gets Lifelong for Sadistic Attack with Sulfuric Acid
23May By Alan LorenzNo Comments
UK, Local, News

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...
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