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At least 21 killed in the pipeline blast at Mexico

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Mexican pipeline blasts during fuel raid and at least 21 people were killed. 71 were injured during the blast. The blast happened on Friday when a pipeline ruptured by suspected fuel thieves exploded in central Mexico. Flames were spreading in an area after a ruptured fuel pipeline exploded, in the municipality of Tlahuelilpan, Hidalgo, Mexico.

The country has been plagued by fuel thefts, and Omar Fayad, the governor of Hidalgo called on Mexicans “not to be accomplices.” He said the practice was not only illegal, but it also “puts your life and families at risk.”

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Charlie Hebdo shooting – 14 suspects will be subjected for trial

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14 suspects will be subjected for trial by the French court, in the Charlie Hebdo attack case. From January 7 to January 9- 2015, a total of 17 people were killed in attacks on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, a kosher grocery store, and the Paris suburb of Montrouge. Three suspects in the attacks were killed by police in separate standoffs.

The attack happened after the magazine published a caricature of the Prophet Mohammed. 11 suspects are already under custody and search for 3 are in progress.

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Mexico gives special Visa to migrants

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Mexico is looking forward for a new Government, leading by Andrés Manuel López Obrador. The Government is planning to give special Visa permit to the migrants. The National Immigration Institute (INM) said that 969 migrants from Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua crossed into Ciudad Hidalgo. They were allowed after giving identification bracelets by Mexican officials.

The special Visa gives permission to the migrants from Guatemala for residing in Mexico for one year. Corresponding changes will be done in the existing Visa rules. The identification bracelets given by Mexican officials will be used to identify the migrants, for the Visa. The officials said that these migrants will be allowed all benefits from the Government.

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The Austrian gay policeman wins long fight for justice

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Austria must give compensation to an ex-policeman who was dismissed in 1976 for sexual indecency with two minor boys aged 14 and 15 . He had lost 25% of his police pension, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled. The age of consent was 18 for male homosexuals at the time.

The man also got a three-month suspended jail term. Although the penalty was not challenged, the ECJ said that he was owed his lost pension, going back to December 2003. This case is a reminder that the anti-gay prejudice was rife in 1970’s. The Policeman had a service of 13 years before he got dismissed.

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Woman jailed for wounding 7-Eleven customers

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Evie Amati (26), who attacked two people with an axe in an Australian convenience store has been jailed. After entering the 7-Eleven store, Amati used the axe to strike a man in the face and a woman in the back of the head. Both victims suffered serious injuries. The attack happened in Sydney in January 2017. She tried for an attack at a third customer also, but he was not injured.

Amati had pleaded not guilty, arguing that her mental had declined before the time of the attack, but this was rejected by the court. She tried to claim that her mental health had declined since she started taking hormones to transition from male to female.

The victims to this case reported to the court that they thought
Amati had come from a costume party when she entered the store about 02:00 on 7 January last year. Jury rejected her lawyer’s argument that she was suffering from “mental derangement”. Amati will be eligible for parole in 2021.S

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Russian Prez Putin to visit Serbia

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Within a couple of hours, Russian president Vladimir Putin is set to reach Serbia –the Balkan country which is one of those countries whose request for the membership in the European Union is still pending, along with some of his senior minsters and the heads of his country’s nuclear and space organisations.

Ahead of the visit, Serbia has beefed up its internal security in the regions where the Russian president is likely to pass through and in and around the places where he is supposed to visit. As many as 7,000 police personals have been deployed for this task alone.

Russia president is likely to meet his Serbian counterpart Aleksandar Vucic and several other senior minsters and prominent business personals. Russia is expected to sign as many as 21 deals with Serbia. Most probably, the focus area of the discussions is going to be defence and security, energy and science and technology.

The Russian president’s visit comes at a time when the Serbian president suffers his greatest ever existential crisis. Serbia has been witnessing serious protest across the country for last few months against its president’s intolerance towards the opposition and disrespect towards the concept of press freedom.

It is debatable what message Serbia wants to give to the European Union with its latest move. An International relations expert opines that it might be some kind of pressure tactics.

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British PM Theresa May Wins Confidence Vote

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After Brexit Humiliation, British PM Theresa May survives the Confidence Vote. MPs voted 325 to 306 that they had confidence in May’s Government. The Brexit deal proposed by Theresa May, regarding Britain’s exit from European Union was not a success.

This situation lead to a lack of confidence in continuing May’s government. She must now return to Parliament on Monday to present lawmakers with some sort of “Plan B” for exiting the 28-member union.

The decision regarding Britain’s exit from European Union has to be made within 29th of March. Britain has to give a huge amount to EU as per the agreement. Britain claims for the exit from EU without the agreement, and this is would lead to great complications. It is expected that Theresa May would be leaving to Brasil for discussions regarding this.S

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EU Commission plans to end the individual states’ veto power on taxes

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The European Commission pushed back plans to end individual member states’ veto power on the introduction of a proposed tax on digital revenues by five years to 2025. The EU executive suggested that the EU states should take an immediate decision on ending the veto or not, particularly in some sectors such as environment levies.

The progress of the digital tax is blocked by some EU states, and for them, the decision to end the veto could be taken by the end of 2025, it said, pushing back the deadline from 2020.

Pierre Moscovici, the EU Economic and Financial Affairs Commissioner said that unanimous decisions don’t protect the national sovereignty of members states, going after an argument often used by critics.

In an important step back from initial plans, the EU Executive led by former Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, decided to dismiss a legal procedure that could make tax reforms easier to agree. This leads to encourage the lawmakers to dub the move as a “smokescreen”.

The veto power has blocked many important tax reforms. This includes the energy issues, where the EU still allows subsidies to diesel.

The EU document said that the cost of the vetoes on tax reforms overall are in the hundreds of billions of euros a year.


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