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Europe

30Oct By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, Europe

Turkey fires another 10,000 civil servants in post-coup purge

    Turkish authorities have fired over 10,000 additional civil servants as the government presses a crackdown over the failed July coup, the official gazette said. A total of 10,131 government employees were removed, mainly from the education, justice and health ministries, according to announcements published late Saturday. The government also announced the closure of 15 pro-Kurdish and other media outlets. University rector elections have also been suspended, with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan set to pick the winners from a pool of candidates selected by the nation's education authority. The moves came three months after the government declared a state of emergency following a failed bid by a rogue faction of the army to oust Erdogan. More than 35,000 people have been arre...
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Brexit related attacks in UK: Uproar in Spain over videos
30Oct By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, Europe

Brexit related attacks in UK: Uproar in Spain over videos

    Uproar in Spain over videos of ‘Brexit-related attacks’ in UK Two videos of Spaniards being violently assaulted in separate incidents in the UK have gone viral in Spain, amid speculation the attacks could be linked to Brexit. The first video, from May, shows a British man hitting 27-year-old Tomás Gil, from Valencia, in the face with a wooden plank after shouting at him to “speak English”. It was released this month after the assailant was convicted of assault and bodily harm. The guilty verdict coincided with a second incident, in which a man was filmed punching 31-year-old Bangladeshi, Jubair Ahmed, in the face as he travelled through east London with his Spanish wife Kilian. Ms Ahmed is shown chasing down the attacker, who got off the train at Upton Park, and berating h...
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Oil hits year high as Putin backs plans to limit supply
28Oct By Sumon AdminNo Comments
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Oil hits year high as Putin backs plans to limit supply

    The price of Brent crude rose to a one-year high of $53.58 a barrel yesterday after Russian President Vladimir Putin gave his support for OPEC's plan to cap oil production. Ministers from the world's largest oil-producing countries are meeting at a conference in Istanbul this week to discuss ways to restrict the record output levels seen over the past two years. Oil jumps 6% as OPEC surprises with production cut Speaking at the World Energy Conference, the president of Russia (which is not a member of OPEC) said: "We believe freezing or even reducing oil production is the only way to save the stability of the energy sector." It looks like we can’t show you adverts on this page, which may be caused by ad blocker software on your device. Because we rely on advertising to fun...
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A powerful earthquakes hit Italy shaking Rome’s ancient ruins
27Oct By Sumon AdminNo Comments
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A powerful earthquakes hit Italy shaking Rome’s ancient ruins

    A series of strong earthquakes have hit Italy shaking Rome's World heritage ancient buildings including the Colosseum and Pantheon. Three quakes were felt, several hours apart, across a wide central area of the country. The first tremor was a 5.4 on the Richter scale, the second 6.1 and the third 4.9, according to the United States Geological Society The earthquakes struck near the border between the regions of Marche and Umbria, but the epicentre is still unclear. They was also felt in Rome where local media reported some of Rome's ancient structures were shaken. The Mayor of the town of Ussita, Marco Rinaldi, said: "It was a very strong earthquake, apocalyptic. "People are screaming on the street and now we are without lights. "Many houses have collapsed. Our town is fin...
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25 migrants found dead in rubber boat in Mediterranean
26Oct By Sumon AdminNo Comments
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25 migrants found dead in rubber boat in Mediterranean

    Aid group Doctors Without Borders (MSF) today said 25 migrant men and women were found dead at the bottom of a rubber boat in the Mediterranean, and 107 survivors were rescued from the same raft. The bodies were discovered late on Tuesday, an MSF spokeswoman said. MSF's Mediterranean rescue unit said on Twitter: "23 of the rescued people had horrific chemical burns, 7 were so severely injured that they needed to be evacuated to Italy, 2 by helicopter". More than 3,500 people have died or disappeared trying to cross the Mediterranean from North Africa this year, the International Organization for Migration estimates. Rescuers plucked 500 migrants from overcrowded boats to safety on Tuesday, Italy's coast guard said.
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Spain cancels permission for Russian warship refueling in Ceuta
26Oct By Sumon AdminNo Comments
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Spain cancels permission for Russian warship refueling in Ceuta

    The Spanish government has canceled the authorization that had been granted to a fleet of Russian warships, headed by the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, to make a stop at the Spanish exclave city of Ceuta on its way to the eastern Mediterranean. The ships had been due to refuel and to take on water and supplies at the North African port. According to a statement from the Office of Diplomatic Information (OID), the Russian embassy in Madrid retracted at midday today the request to make a stop after the Spanish Foreign Ministry requested clarification on whether the three vessels were going to be taking part in support or conflict actions over the Syrian city of Aleppo. Hours earlier, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg repeated concerns that the fleet could play a ...
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Russia reveals chilling first images of super nuke Satan 2
25Oct By Sumon AdminNo Comments
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Russia reveals chilling first images of super nuke Satan 2

    Russia has revealed its biggest ever nuclear missile which is powerful enough to destroy a country as big as France with a single strike. Vladimir Putin is seeking to replace his arsenal of SS-18 Satan weapons with the new RS-28 Sarmat super-nukes. They are packed with up to 16 nuclear warheads according to pictures revealed online from the Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau. The weapons – which will be ready for launch in 2018 – will make the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki look like “popguns”, experts have said. A message posted alongside the picture said: “In accordance with the Decree of the Russian Government 'On the State Defense Order for 2010 and the planning period 2012-2013', the Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau was instructed to start design and development work o...
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France begins to clear Calais migrants Jungle camp
24Oct By Sumon AdminNo Comments
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France begins to clear Calais migrants Jungle camp

    More than 1,200 police and officials in France have begun an operation to clear the Jungle migrant camp in Calais. The camp has been housing at least 7,000 people in squalid conditions. Migrants queued peacefully to be processed, and the first of some 60 coaches that will carry them to refugee centres across France have now left. There is concern that some migrants will refuse to go because they still want to get to Britain and that weekend clashes with police could be repeated. The dismantling of the camp is expected to start on Tuesday. The UK has begun to accept some of the estimated 1,300 unaccompanied children from the camp. The first group without family ties to the UK has arrived in Britain under the "Dubs amendment" rules, which grant refuge to the most vulnerable....
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Five killed in Malta runway plane crash
24Oct By Sumon AdminNo Comments
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Five killed in Malta runway plane crash

    Three French defence officials and two other people died when a surveillance plane crashed shortly after take-off at Malta International Airport. The light aircraft was setting off on a mission over the Mediterranean around 07:20 (05:20 GMT) when it nose-dived and disintegrated in a ball of flames. There was no explosion prior to the crash, according to eyewitnesses. Malta said the flight had been part of a French operation to track illicit trafficking of people and drugs. An investigation into the causes of the crash is to be conducted by the French defence ministry. The airport has re-opened with some disruption expected to the day's scheduled flights. 'Straight down' French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian confirmed that three of the victims were ministry staff while...
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Belgium just killed the chances of a successful Brexit by rejecting EU deal
24Oct By Sumon AdminNo Comments
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Belgium just killed the chances of a successful Brexit by rejecting EU deal

    A single regional government in Belgium may have just killed off all hope of a successful Brexit, which includes a post-Brexit free-trade deal with the European Union. This is because on Friday Wallonia, the small Belgium region, rejected the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, or CETA, which has taken the 28-nation bloc seven years to negotiate with Canada. Then on Monday, it again rejected the EU's "ultimatum" on changing its mind, according to news agency AFP. The deal was all but done and just needed to be ratified by all EU member states before being implemented. But one of Belgium's six legislatures, Wallonia, refused to support CETA on Friday having vetoed it earlier this week, meaning Belgium's national government cannot give the trade deal its ap...
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