On October 22, 2018, Jamal Khashoggi entered the Saudi Arabian embassy in Istanbul, and has not been seen or heard from since then. It is thought that he was murdered inside the embassy and his body was discretely removed. He was a writer for The Washington post and has openly criticized the royal Saudi family for decades, also being A… Read more »
Turkey is widening its search for clues to the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi to include the Saudi consul’s Istanbul residence. The consulate itself, where Mr Khashoggi was last seen on 2 October, was searched by Turkish investigators on Monday for the first time. Pressure is growing on Saudi Arabia to give a full explanation of what happened to… Read more »
A Turkish court on Friday convicted a US pastor of terror charges and sentenced him to prison, but ultimately set him free due to good behaviour and time already served. The ruling ends months of diplomatic wrangling between Ankara and Washington. It could seem fanciful to draw a link between the fate of an American pastor in Turkey, a crisis… Read more »
France’s foreign ministry said on Friday that it had asked Saudi Arabian authorities to provide transparent and detailed answers over the fate of veteran Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi after he disappeared in Turkey. “The disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul … has raised serious questions about his fate. France asks that the facts be clearly established and that all those who can contribute to the truth… Read more »
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was released from jail Sunday after three weeks behind bars for organising anti-Kremlin protests, his second spell in detention in as many months. The 42-year-old activist left a detention centre in the south of Moscow in the early hours of the morning and spoke briefly to journalists before leaving in a waiting car. “Over the 50 days I have… Read more »
Almost a year after a clear vote to separate from Spain, Catalonia is still fighting for independence. There has been violence since the night of the referendum, but lately it is has started to become much more intense. This all stems from pressure from Madrid to crush the separatist movement. Immediately after the vote, the spokeswoman for the socialist government… Read more »
France’s former prime minister Manuel Valls announced his candidacy for mayor of Barcelona on Tuesday, ending months of speculation over his intentions to enter the race. Valls – who has dual French and Spanish citizenship – has made regular trips to the Catalonian capital throughout the summer. On one of his most recent visits, he took part in an event to… Read more »
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/alps-new-matterhorn-gondola-plans-draws-criticism-a-1231087.html In the history of alpine passenger transportation, encrusting gondola seats with Swarovski crystals is surely not the most tasteful idea. Even in the Swiss town of Zermatt, a high-class, high-altitude tourist destination, it will remain an exception. Of the 25 new cable cars slated to ferry people to the top of Klein Matterhorn, four will contain a total of… Read more »
A year after a banned referendum on secession from Spain, tens of thousands of Catalan protesters piled pressure on the region’s separatist government Monday during an anniversary marked by road and rail blockades and late-night clashes with police. According to municipal police, 180,000 protesters gathered in Barcelona late in the day behind a banner reading “October 1, no forgetting, no… Read more »
Britain accused Russian military intelligence on Thursday of directing a host of cyber attacks aimed at undermining Western democracies by sowing confusion in everything from sport to transport and the 2016 U.S. presidential election. In a British assessment based on work by its National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), Russian military intelligence (GRU) was cast as a pernicious cyber aggressor which… Read more »