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Bundestag Threatens Merkel with Trial for Covering up the NSA - 07/29/2015

Committee of the Bundestag, controlling action and powers of the German Intelligence Service (BND), is going to sue the German government. The claim is related to the recent scandal around the US National Security Agency (NSA), writes Sueddeutsche Zeitung. According to deputies, the government refuses to provide the parliamentary committee a list of objects for which the representatives of the...

Italy is on the Verge of Collapse - 07/29/2015

Emergency meetings are coming one after another. Eurozone countries are trying to save Greece. Meanwhile, experts are sounding the alarm: if a crisis begins in Italy, the Greek problems will seem a trifle. Huge debt, economic stagnation, bloated and inefficient state apparatus - a few years ago it seemed that Italy would inevitably have slid into crisis and will drag the entirety of Europe. Now...

About 130 Christians in Pakistan are Accused of Blasphemy - 07/28/2015

About 130 Christians in Pakistan are accused of violating a local law on blasphemy, reports the agency Catholic World News with reference to peacekeeping center of the Dominican Order in Lahore. - At present, legal proceedings against 130 Christians is conducted in Pakistan, - said the head of the center priest James Channan. According to him, there is even more cases against the Muslims -...

Varoufakis Spills the Beans - 07/28/2015

Former Greek Finance Minister Janis Varoufakis is again in the spotlight of the world media. As it turned out, Varoufakis has been actively preparing Greece to the parallel payment system in the event of loss of access to the ECB's liquidity program. Before the Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras agreed with the requirements of the lenders, despite the results of the referendum, Greece was very close...

The Sewel & Bercow exposes are political hypocrisies British style - 07/28/2015

The Sun tabloid has torn apart the suave pride typically associated with British politicians. Read on to find out hilarious titbits regarding two of our speakers. Although British politicians are a proud lot, and showcases their parliamentary model of democratic politics as something to be proud of, however, two high profile scandals have revealed an underlying hypocrisy at its core and have...

Turkey and the U.S aim for creating a zone free of Islamic State fighters - 07/28/2015

Turkey, a NATO member, has finally seen the light of the day and has agreed to join the U.S led coalition against terrorist organisations. However, the dynamics of the situation is complex with each player having its own agenda. The United States and Turkey have joined forces to provide a strategic air cover for Syrian rebels who are fighting to keep those loose bandits of the Islamic State at...

Turkey Took Up Arms Against Terrorists - 07/24/2015

Turkish police carried out a series of special operations in 13 provinces of the country, resulting in seizing more than 250 members of terrorist organizations, including the IG. Almost at the same time, the Turkish Air Force fighters attacked the IG control centers in Syria. - July 24th, Division of the Main Directorate of Security conducted simultaneous operations in 13 provinces of the country...

U.S Treasury Intelligence Network was vulnerable to hacking - 07/24/2015

The Treasury Foreign Intelligence Network wherein officials routinely share top secret financial information and keep a tab on the impact of sanctions on countries and individuals, was vulnerable to remote hacking. As per S. Leslie Ireland, its top intelligence officer, the vulnerabilities have now been patched. According to an audit conducted by the government, computers used by the U.S Treasury...

Unemployment in Spain Fell to the Minimum - 07/23/2015

Unemployment in Spain in the II quarter of 2015 fell to the lowest level since July-October 2011 against the background of accelerating economic growth in the country, reports Bloomberg. According to the Spanish statistical office INE, unemployment rate in April-June decreased to 22.37% from 23.78% in the previous quarter. Analysts, surveyed by Bloomberg, expected to decline to 22.5%. Spanish...

Alexis Tsipras ensures the passing of the second reform package - 07/23/2015

Alexis Tsipras has once again emerged victor by controlling the dissidents in his party and by utilizing the help of the pro-EU opposition, he has steered Greece through these difficult times and onto the next reform package. Having tied the Gordian knot that has set the ball rolling and has ensured the functioning of bank in Greece, Alexis Tsipras, has now contained a rebellion in his own...
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