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Passenger captured the video of Turbulence on Kosovo-Switerland flight

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A passenger has captured the moment a plane hit a severe pocket of turbulence, on Kosovo-Switzerland flight.

Media reports said that about ten people have been injured in the incident aboard the ALK Airlines flight from Pristina to Basel. A member of cabin crew had been thrown into the ceiling.

The video shows the frightened passengers crying and shouting and some others praying. This incident was just before 20 minutes, when the plane was to land.

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Two boys found guilty in the murder of Ana Kriegel

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Two boys of age 14 have found guilty in the murder of the 14-year-old girl Ana Kriegel, Republic of Ireland. They are marked as the youngest people in the history of the State to be convicted of murder.

The girl had been taken by one of the boys from her home. At the time of murder, the boys were of age 13. They had denied the charges and were granted anonymity during the trial due to their age.

The boys were refereed as Boy A and Boy B. After a trial of 6 weeks, the boys were found guilty of the murder. Boy A was convicted of the murder and brutal sexual abuse of the young girl. The other boy was convicted of murder.

The boys were remanded in custody in Oberstown children’s detention centre until July 15th. The time when the verdicts were read out, both the boys’ parents were present at the court and had cried and hugged the teens before they were led away.

Ana Kriegel’s parents

The parents of Ana Kriegel were also present at every moment of the trial wept and embraced their supporters before thanking the prosecution team and the gardai.

Mr Justice Paul McDermott said, “This has been a very difficult trial”, “I can’t offer you anything apart from, of course, sincere gratitude”, he added.

Ana’s naked body was found from Derelict Glenwood House in Lucan, with a ligature around the neck. The body was found after three days since she was missing.

About 50 injuries had been identified the girl’s body by a former state pathologist.

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Notre Dame Celebrates the first Holy Mass wearing hard hats

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After the devastating fire at Notre Dame cathedral, that destroyed the roof and major parts, the priests held the first Holy Mass, wearing hard hats, for safety.

There were restrictions for people to attend the mass due to some security reasons. The Catholic Diocese of Paris said that only thirty were allowed inside. The Archbishop of Paris, Michel Aupetit lead the Holy Mass.

Media reports said that almost 15 were priests including the Archbishop of Paris and auxiliary bishop Philippe Marsset. The Paris Archbishop said, “It was an emotional moment especially because most of the [mass attendees] work at the cathedral”. “It’s their home”, added the Archbishop.

Some of the construction workers helping to rebuild the church were also allowed to attend.

This was exactly two months after the Cathedral met with the fire. Only the twin bell towers of the Cathedral were left undamaged.

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The Far-right AfD fails to win first mayoral seat

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The far-right Alternative for Germany has failed to win its first mayoral seat on Sunday. The party has failed in a main election in the east German part. The party was on its very first attempt to take the control of a German city.

Sebastian Wippel, the party’s candidate has failed to win the mayoral runoff election in the city of Görlitz with 44.8 percent of the vote. If Wippel could win the seat, he would have become Germany’s first-ever AfD mayor.

The Major German governing party, centre-right Christian Democrats’ Octavian Ursu had won a leading vote of more than 55% in the city of Görlitz.

The area around the town had been the backdrop to some Hollywood films, including Inglourious Basterds and The Grand Budapest Hotel. This had given it its nickname Görliwood. Ahead of the vote, several actors and filmmakers linked with the city wrote an open letter requesting the residents not to support the AfD.

Following his victory, Mr Ursu said, “I am happy that a majority has chosen to vote for me. But in the end it is not about two candidates but the orientation of this town to the outside world.” He added, “We remain an open society and do not isolate ourselves”.

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Strike by Swiss women for time, money and respect

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The Women at Switzerland demonstrates on Friday against the country’s unacceptably slow pace to equality.

A similar protest in which around half a million women participated had been taken place before 28 years, back in 1991. The Swiss women have made long campaign for the gender equality.

After, the world war that ended in 1918, they joined millions of other women from Europe demanding right to vote. But this was not sanctioned till 1971.

During the time of strike in 1991, no women participation was there in the Swiss government. No statutory maternity leave had been there.

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Russian poker star Lilya Novikova electrocuted in bath at home

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Russia’s “most beautiful poker player” Lilya Novikova (26) has died of electrocution in her bath. Russian media reports that the dreadful incident happened in Moscow.

Lilya’s body was found out by an elderly neighbour, in her bath. The neighbour had received an emergency call from Lilya’s parents.

She was known as Lia among her poker fans. Media reports said that she suffered a fatal electric shock while using a hair dryer in the flat. She was living with her parents.

Lilya was was well known on Twitch.tv, a live streaming channel for online gamers. The confirmation was obtained from the Investigative Committee (SK) of Russia that Lilya had been electrocuted. The reports says that this was an accident.

Lilya was an Engineering graduate from Moscow’s prestigious Bauman University. She was interested in sports as well, besides poker. MK reports said that she had made some videos with top tips for poker fans.

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Soviet car model sent to stratosphere

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A Siberian start-up has launched its own more modest motor satellite to the space. This happens just after an year when Elon Musk sent his Tesla car into space.

Tesla’s was a space-suited Starman mannequin whereas the ToSky start-up sent up a smaller dummy in the likeness of Dmitry Rogozin. The users of Internet picked Mr Rogozin over other candidates. This includes a dummy of the late Stephen Hawking or a cactus, Radio Liberty’s Siberian news site reports.

The model was Mr Rogozin’s figure, seated at the wheel of the Lada. This has reached an altitude of 20km (12.5 miles) before landing 150km from the launch site with the help of a parachute.

The Tomsk-based start-up says that they can learn more about automatic stratostats. This can spend a long time in the stratosphere.

Nikita Cheban, the project director told the Interfax Siberia news agency that the test flight gathered data that will allow ToSky to design vessels that can “spend more time in the stratosphere, carry heavier payloads, and develop better manoeuverability”.

A promotional video was released by the group. The video was called “We sent Rogozin into near space!”. This featured a smiling Rogozin cardboard cut-out flying above the clouds in a bright-red Lada before making a flawless landing in a field.

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Russian journalist freed after enormous public protest

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The Russian journalist Ivan Golunov, who has been charged drug-dealing case was freed following a public protest. The leading newspapers in Russia, Vedomosti, RBC, and Kommersant had huge support of Golunov.

Golunov, who was freed from police station on Tuesday cried and vowed to continue his investigative journalism. Vladimir Kolokoltsev, the Interior Minister admitted his guilt had “not been proven”. He said that an internal inquiry had been launched.

The minister added that the decision came after “forensic, biological, fingerprinting and genetic tests”. Kolokoltsev said that he would ask Russian President Vladimir Putin to dismiss two high-ranking officials over the case.

The officials include Gen Puchkov, the head of the Interior Affairs Directorate of Moscow’s Western Administrative District and and the head of the Drugs Control Directorate, General Devyatkin.

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Russian medias in rare support for charged reporter Ivan Golunov

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Three leading newspapers in Russia is observed to be in huge support of a reporter charged with drug offences, in a case that has caused a huge public outcry.

Leading news papers Vedomosti, RBC, and Kommersant have their headlines as support for the charged reporter. The headlines read, ”
“We are Ivan Golunov”, referring to the investigative journalist.

Ivan Golunov (36) was charged over the weekend with trying to illegally sell drugs. His lawyer said that these drugs were planted. During his arrest last week, the journalist was reportedly beaten up.

Golunov is a freelance journalist, and had contributed to a number of media outlets including Meduza, the Latvia-based news site.

The Russian social media were having huge discussions regarding his arrest, saying that the arrest suppresses the freedom of press.

Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman said that President Vladimir Putin was informed about the case and was made aware regarding this last week and was “keeping a very close eye on all the details”.

Peskov said, “Mistakes cannot be ruled out anywhere or anytime, mistakes are made, among others, by journalists, when they write stories”.

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Scientists doubts the presence of hidden Scottish meteorite crater

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Scientists suggests for a full geophysical survey of The Minch as they doubts the presence of hidden Scottish meteorite crater. In 2008, the idea that such a structure lies between the Western Isles and mainland Scotland was put forward.

The evidence for the rocky debris that would have been produced by a giant impact, was found on the Highlands coast. The spot where the meteorite fell into the earth can be found out as per Oxford and Aberdeen universities.

As per the evidence collected the scientists estimated that the incident happened about 1.2 billion years ago when the continents were arranged very differently from how they are now, and life on our planet would have existed almost exclusively in the oceans.

A group of Red colored rocks were found on the eastern side of The Minch. This is considered as the key supporting evidence.

Dr Ken Amor said to bbc, “If you imagine debris flowing out in a big cloud across the landscape, hugging the ground, eventually that material slows down and comes to rest. But it’s the stuff out in front that stops first while the stuff behind is still pushing forward and it overlaps what’s in front”.

Oxford researcher said to media that the orientation of magnetic particles within the fabric of the rock at several locations had been examined, which allowed them to triangulate back to an origin.

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