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Madrid mass protest demanding Socialist prime minister resign

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Thousands of people gathered and protested Madrid on Sunday against the government’s handling of the Catalan question, as the country braced for the landmark trial of 12 separatist leaders this week. Protesters were angered by the government’s outreach to Catalan separatists and calls for new elections in Spain.

The people gathered were weaving Spanish flags and were residing the slogans for the nation’s security forces and for Sanchez to resign. Pablo Casado, who asked the voters to punish Sanchez’s socialists in upcoming European, local and regional elections in May, said that “The time of Sanchez’s government is over,”. During the upbeat demonstration recordings of popular music including Lady Gaga were also played.

The public proceedings at Spain’s supreme court, which are expected to last three months and which will be broadcast on television, will focus on the independence referendum held in October 2017 and the regional parliament’s subsequent unilateral declaration of independence.

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Russia-Germany pipeline project faces EU’s objection

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Several European Union countries have expressed their concerns about an oil pipeline project that connects Russia and Germany, named Nord Stream 2.

The main concerns are that the pipeline project will make Germany more reliant to the Russian oil and that reliance may be misused by Russia to fulfil its political and economic goals.

France is the first country that has come out publically against the deal. Later, supporting the stand taken by France, most countries in the east and central regions of Europe –overcoming their fear of retaliatory action from the Germans– have criticised the Germany’s move.

Germany has invested hugely in the project. The project is several decades old. At this moment, Germany cannot withdraw from the deal suddenly as such a move will cost them several millions.

France is likely to dilute its position in the coming hours. Though the EU countries are unhappy with the pipeline project, none wants to interrupt the project at this stage. These factors give confidence to Germany to go ahead with the project.

The EU primarily imports oil from Norway and Russia. Most EU countries are of the opinion that a pipeline that connects Poland and Norway should be created. The newly developed Russia-Germany pipeline which passes beneath the Baltic Sea gives a serious blow to the EU’s Norway plans.

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Brazilian football club fire: 10 People dead

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A fire at the training ground of the Brazilian football club Flamengo leaves 10 people dead and three others were hurt. Firefighters responded to reports of a blaze early Friday at the training center in Rio de Janeiro, where flames engulfed a dormitory where the players were sleeping. All the victims were all staying at Ninho de Urubu, the training ground of Flamengo football club in Rio de Janeiro.

Flamengo is one of Brazil’s biggest and most popular clubs, playing their home matches in Rio de Janeiro. Formed in 1898 as a rowing club, Flamengo took up football a few years later and were in their early years an institution for the elite.

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Teenager pulled alive from building collapse

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16-year-old boy was pulled alive from ruins of Istanbul building two days after deadly collapse. On Wednesday afternoon, an eight-storied apartment block was collapsed in the city’s Kartal district. Officials say the official death toll has risen to 14.

The interior minister Suleyman Soylu said at least 11 more people were still missing in the collapsed eight-storey building. The boy who had been pulled out by the rescuers was suddenly taken to the hospital, but no further updates are got from the hospital.

As investigations into the collapse continued, several neighboring buildings of this collapsed site was evacuated on Thursday due to security reasons. The officials says that some part of the collapsed building were built illegally. They said that the top three floors were not built according to legal terms. The textile workshop inside the building was also running without a valid licence.

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Relation between France and Italy hit new low

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The relation between France and Italy has moved from bad to worse as the Italian Deputy Prime Minister, Luigi Di Maio, has met the representatives of yellow-vest movement.

France, earlier, warned Italy not to interfere in its internal affairs. The warning was made when the Italian leaders started speaking in favour of the ongoing Yellow-vest moment, which France considers as a serious threat to its political stability.

It was the induction of an eurosceptic government in Italy that made the first blow to the relation between Paris and Rome.

Since then, the relation between these two founding members of the European Union has been steadily worsening.

In the recent past, France and Italy found over a range of issue, primarily over the issue of immigration.

This is the first time in the modern history that France and Italy have come out strongly against each other.

The development is not favourable to the existence of European Union. Germany, the UK, France and Italy are the four largest markets in the biggest economic union of the world. This four will soon be reduced to three as the UK will leave the market within months. The union is less likely to survive another big exist.

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Germany to restrict the data gathering activities by Facebook

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Facebook has been warned to restrain its data collecting practices in Germany. This world’s largest social media network is facing a black-mark on its market dominance that they are gathering the users data without their knowing.

Germany is strict about their privacy concerns. Last year’s Cambridge Analytica scandal showed that tens of millions of Facebook profiles were harvested without their users’ consent.

Cartel office chief Andreas Mundt said that “In future, Facebook will no longer be allowed to force its users to agree to the practically unrestricted collection and assigning of non-Facebook data to their Facebook accounts,” In its order, the Cartel Office said it would only be possible to assign data from WhatsApp or Instagram to Facebook subject to the voluntary consent of users.

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Body recovered from wreckage of Emiliano Sala’s plane

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Investigators says that a body has been recovered from the wreckage of the plane, crashed with Cardiff City footballer Emiliano Sala and pilot David Ibbotson on board. The authorities are yet to confirm whether the recovered body is of either Sala or the pilot.

The plane, from France to England was found missing over the English Channel. The plane, Piper Malibu N264DB was lost on 21 January on its way from Nantes, France, to Cardiff.

The body was successfully recovered using remotely operated vehicles in extremely challenging weather conditions, by Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) and its specialist contractors. In a statement to medias, the AAIB said that “The operation was carried out in as dignified a way as possible and the families were kept informed of progress,”.

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Trump Nominates David Malpass as next World Bank President

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US President Donald Trump has nominated US Treasury’s David Malpass as his pick for the next world bank president on Wednesday (local time). Maplass is known to a Trump legalistic and senior economic adviser to the US President, during his 2016 election campaign.

The 62 year old has criticized the world bank and other institutions such as the IMF in the past. Malpass would be a “strong advocate for accountability” at the World Bank, said Donald Trump.

“The Wall Street Journal just said today in an editorial that David Malpass is an excellent choice, which is America is the largest contributor to the World Bank, giving it over USD 1 billion every year,” ,Trump said.

If elected as the President of the World Bank, Malpass would replace South Korea’s Jim Yong Kim in April this year. Jim Yong Kim resigned unexpectedly last month from his post.

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Belgian environment minister resigns as her false allegation is exposed

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A Belgian environment minister, Joke Schauvliege, has been forced to resign as her false allegation that she was informed by the security personals that the ongoing school students protest demanding climate action had been targeted against her has been exposed.

Earlier, shortly after the security forces confirmed that they had not passed any such information, she apologised publically for the untrue statement she made in a gathering of farmers.

But, the students were not ready to admit the apology. Most of them responded as if the statement insulted the youngsters who stand with the noble cause of demanding climate action.

The resigned minister received severe criticism. Most of those who came out publically against the resigned minister were youngsters and environmentalists.

The European school students have been organising protests across the continent for last few weeks demanding climate action. The movement, which started in Brussels, has rapidly spread to each and every corner of Europe. The movement is entirely controlled by the school students. So far, nothing relevant has been received to assume that there is anything other than the far of spontaneity behind the rapid spread of the movement across the Europe.

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European buskers booked in Malaysia over a street act involving swinging their baby

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A European couple, who are on a South East Asian trip, has been booked by Malaysian police over a street act involving swinging their baby.

The video has been shared more than fifteen thousand times in Facebook. It is a social media user who has notified the police authorities that such an abuse has happened in the South Asian country.

The Malaysian police, under whose custody the couple is now, informed the media houses that the baby was safe.

A Russian social media user claimed that such kind of stunts were common in Russia. He even said that it was not illegal in Russia.

The couple is a part of a team who are on the mission to travel around the South Asia with the amount collected from its street plays. This kind of travellers is normally called as buster travellers.


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