CNN has been routinely ‘bombed’ 7 Dec 2018 The CNN news channel building in New York was evacuated on Thursday evening (local time) after a bomb threat. Shortly after 10.30 pm the alarm went off on the editorial floor of the news channel. All staff had to leave the Time Warner Center, which houses the news channel, reports the news channel. According to the media company, the threat …
Health insurance: Swiss Socialists call for premiums to be capped at 10 percent of income 3 Dec 2018 Switzerland’s Socialist Party on the weekend launched a popular initiative calling for health insurance premiums to be capped at 10 percent of household income. Swiss residents fund around a third of all the country’s healthcare costs though a compulsory insurance system but the cost of this obligatory insurance has shot up twice as fast as GDP and wages since 1996. …
Police used tear gas and water cannons against Yellow Jackets 1 Dec 2018 The French riot police fired tear gas in Paris and deployed a water canon during a new demonstration of the so-called ‘Gilets Jaunes’, demonstrators in yellow vests. The metropolitan police reports that 24 arrests have already been made. Hundreds of demonstrators gathered Saturday at the Arc de Triomphe, the huge triumphal arch that stands at the famous avenue Champs-Élysées. They …
Paul Manafort had conversation with Assange 30 Nov 2018 Paul Manafort had “secret” talks with Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. The former campaign manager of Donald Trump sought the founder of WikiLeaks according to the British newspaper The Guardian in 2013, 2015 and in the spring of 2016. The extent of secrecy seems to be limited as the visit to the Embassy is in no way …
One of the “Underage martyrs” was serving the three-year term in Germany 27 Nov 2018 One of the two men who were conspiring to commit a terrorist attack on a Rotterdam police station has been sentenced to three years in prison in Germany before the events. He was released at the end of last year, appeared Tuesday during a non-substantive hearing in the court in Rotterdam. It is still unclear on what charges he was …
Cow horn initiative rejected by Swiss voters 27 Nov 2018 An initiative designed to stop Swiss farmers dehorning cows and goats has been rejected by voters at a referendum. The initiative would have seen farmers who choose not to dehorn their cows and goats given extra subsidies to cover additional associated costs. The issue captured global attention and turned its instigator, Swiss farmer Armin Capaul, into an unlikely media star. …
Swiss voters back spying by the local Insurance companies 26 Nov 2018 Swiss voters on Sunday approved a law that gives insurance companies broad leeway to spy on suspected welfare cheats despite concerns raised about right to privacy. The measure was passed in a referendum that saw two other proposals – a bid to give Swiss judges supremacy over international courts, and a call for incentives to stop cows’ horns being removed …
Sviaz-Bank Retirement Funds manipulation Scheme exposed 26 Nov 2018 The so-called “Russian billionaire” Evgeniy Bolotin was the mastermind of the scheme to use retirement funds without being caught by the Accounts Chamber. In autumn of 2008 year the greatest bankruptcy in the history of Russia was closely averted. Sviaz-Bank was close to insolvency. The state authorized Vnesheconombank to salvage Sviaz-Bank. It has received 142 billion roubles for the project. …
Greece’s former finance minister to stand for election in Germany 26 Nov 2018 Greece’s former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis will stand for the May 2019 European election in Germany, a country he once locked horns with during the Greek debt crisis, the political movement he launched has announced. The anti-austerity maverick will head the list of Demokratie In Europa, a German political party that is part of the pan-European, cross-border movement DiEM25 set …
Horns aside and International law safe: Swiss referendums results 26 Nov 2018 A Swiss referendum on a proposal that wants to place Swiss law above international agreements and treaties, has led to a huge deception today for initiators of the conservative nationalist SVP (Swiss People’s Party). No less than two-thirds of the voters rejected the populists’ proposal. With the clear “No” of the Swiss an important violation of international law and international …
Aybek Barysov, Gulmira Wakhitova and Kanat Ibraev among founders of Qazaqstanda Jasalğan economic movement